Creates a combined map of Golden Cheetah activities suitable for embedding on a web page.
Ridemap requires a recent copy of Haskell, being most recently tested on Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0, as well as a number of other libraries that are managed via Cabal. Once Haskell is installed, use cabal to build and install ridemap:
$ cd ridemap
$ cabal install --user
This installs one executable, ridemap, which takes a path to a directory and any number of Golden Cheetah JSON ride files on the command line, and outputs to that directory a JSON data structure to be loaded by the Javascript in the html directory. Here is a minimal example that should produce a map:
$ cd ridemap
$ ridemap html/data /path/to/GC/rides/\*.json
$ scp -Cr html/ remote.host:/path/to/map/dir/
To view the map, it must be through a web server, since browsers restrict XMLHttpRequest for local files.
There are three relevant command line options:
-r NUM : this specifies the radius of the hexagonal tiles in terms of meters at the equator (the projection distorts this away on points away from the equator.
-s NUM : The minimum time step in seconds when interpolating between ride points
-m NUM : The maximum time gap in seconds between ride points before that `ridemap` will attempt to interpolate between.
-g : Use the Google/Bing mercator projection, not WGS 84.