Four or five years ago, the useful for logging bike journeys, Everytrail stopped working. It was bought up by Tripadvisor and left to slowly break. Shame as it was a convenient site for uploading GPS tracks directly from the GPS device – it had the clever ability of finding your latest GPX file and separating it out into separate journeys. What was useful was that it was made easy to embed the code for your trip into blogs and websites. After it stopped I started using TripTrack.org, at the suggestion of my technical and travel guru Geoff Jones. But getting the particular track that you wanted from your GPS onto the website seemed to need an intermediary. I used Adze.

Today in my email I got an announcement that AllTrails had taken over Everytrail (when will they run out of names?) and inviting me to make an account. I responded immediately and eventually my trips (now called recordings) from Everytrail appeared on their site. But can I embed the trails in my blog? Let’s try.

Here:

OK, hmm. Let’s try some different code:

OK, these links load very slowly and are not that useful or good to look at. AllTrails does not impress. Also every page features prominent incitements to pay for a ‘Pro’ account, pointing out to you all the things you can’t do unless you fork out $30 per year. I will keep looking.

What about this? this is Geoff’s solution. He got it working for him but it doesn’t seem to work for me yet. there should be a map here –
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Triptrack.org can find an upload the GPX current file from a connected GPS but is not able to separate the different parts so uploads all your recent journeys together – which is not so helpful.