A lot of you will remember the COGH run 
The "virtual" relay run from Novo Siberk to Cape of Good Hope was EPIC - and a lot of fun :)For those who weren't here for it - participants were able to enter their milage and the map would update showing "how far" we were along the actual route as if we were running it Updates each week included the milage pw, cumulative milage, distance from end and news and interesting trivia from the places we passed through
I would dearly like to set up another run. The problem is - Charlies1 who was the genius behind the mapping/website is no longer active in the Forum. Every other part is doable - but a huge element that added to the enjoyment and motivation to run was the "real time" mapping.
If any member can organise this vital part - please let me know
This time, hopefully, we will be running the route shown in the photo. Yes, the Darien Gap does not have a paved route , but we could call that the "off road" section
Anyway, let me know if you can help and, pending Admin approval of course, we can set it up
Just another little 5k
Hmm. Fiddly. Quite a bit of coding needed, I'd have thought.
I have done a bit of coding with OpenStreetMap extracts and plotting lines on them, but it was a long time ago.
Note to self: this looks promising wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki...
Anyone who understands that has my unreserved respect!
The hard bits:
* Making the GPX file for the route line.
* Working out the distances along it, preferably at the 1km resolution, for placing a marker.
* A front end for people to add their run distances and a simple database behind it.
The harder bits:
* Support for popping up points of interest on the route.
Wow! I've broken Google Maps trying to route from Deadhorse, AK to the start of the gap in Panama.
🤣🤣 (watching in anticipation)
COGH was great!
Flashback to COGH:
11 Time Zones
16 Countries
25 000 km
… and a lovely wood-medal!
It's a brilliant keepsake of an enormously enjoyable participatory C25k event
got a t shirt but missed the medal 😏 It looks fab
I think you could order one now. The people at Sprinters are very helpful and will probably still have the logo.They have just set up a club page for my ukulele group (possibly the only non-running group on their web, although we do have at least 3 runners
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I know nothing about coding nowster , but do any of these sites trigger ideas or have features that might make life easier?
racedirectorshq.com/read/ra...
mapcustomizer.com/
All of the above seem to use the low level tools I found above. They don't appear to cope with a route that's going to be about 20,000-25,000km in length.
Just the bit from Albuquerque New Mexico USA to the Darien Gap is over 6700km.
maps.openrouteservice.org/#...
And even that is too big to download as a GPX or KML file.
Yes, I was rather assuming that anything free wouldn't be able to handle it nowster . It was more so you could evaluate, in a way that I can't, how those sites worked.
It looks like you've already done a huge amount of work looking into possibilities. I really appreciate that.
The display end of things has proved relatively easy, once I got the GPX tracks together.
It is a complex and time consuming project N. Charlie1 really put his heart and soul into it.
What sort of time are we hoping this would kick off? There's a good few evenings and weekends of coding ahead for someone (possibly me). Getting a track on a map is possibly the smallest of the problems.
The Start date would definitely be up to the IT Genius - the beauty of COGH was everyone being able to see on the route how far and where it was run in "real" time :)That also made it very handy to research and give the weekly update on the history, culture, news, photos, trivia etc of the places we would have seen if being on the route in reality
Just announcing "so many miles run today" and a vague point on a map doesn't have the same engagement imho, hopefully someone can emulate Charlies1 computer prowess
My husband has started googling this. Apparently one of the roads in Alaska is only passable in winter, so we should get started soon
He also found a road that we "need permission" to use. I said we won't bother about that sort of nonsense, we're a hardy bunch of runners!
Also we're virtual, so physical and political limitations don't bother us.
Exactly - were we bothered by snakes, crocodiles, hippos or other dangerous animals ? No, we ran right past them
🤣🤣🤣
#didn’tunderstandawordofthat! 😅😅 Kudos for being a whiz, nowster. 🙏🏻