I’m posting GPS data from a snowboarding trip to Mount Snow in Vermont captured with the Google My Tracks app for Android. The XML Google Maps plugin for WordPress is pretty useful here. The only disappointing thing is that there isn’t a parameter to set the granularity when producing the altitude and speed graphs when using the plugin, as far as I know. The My Tracks app claims a top speed of 35 MPH (!), which isn’t illustrated in the speed graph. It looks like the plugin does a simple downsampling of the data, so it misses some detail. Still pretty cool though! Make sure to check out the map using the Google Earth plugin for a 3D view of the mountain.

This is all of the snowboarding we did before lunch. In other news, the battery life of the HTC Incredible sucks, so there’s no data after lunch.

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The NextGEN Gallery plugin for wordpress is pretty useful, and it there are all sorts of plugins which extend its capabilities. I’ve used the XML Google Maps plugin for example to show photos in NextGEN albums on google maps. There’s also the NextGEN Polaroid plugin which makes the cool flash animation shown below. However, over the course of upgrading WordPress and the NextGEN gallery to the latest versions, the functionality broke. Here’s how to get it to work with the latest versions (assumes you’ve already downloaded, installed, and tested your NextGEN gallery plugin, and that you’ve already downloaded and installed the NextGEN Polaroid plugin from here):
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