Virtual Earth integration

Everyone thinks of Google Maps but the service from Microsoft (Live Maps) is just as, or I personally believe more compelling (The big G still has it on search though). For a Windows developer it's quite easy to get to grips with and they're adding fantastically detailed imaging at the rate of 60TB each time.

Here in Australia ADSL accounts are capped to a set quota per month. Mine's just run out (until tomorrow when the new billing period starts) so I can't easily upload an image but I've got Virtual Earth integration going.

If you have a GPX file associated with a session, you'll be able to add that and view the VE map within the application.

My GPS (tiny, not always clear if it's recording but water-resistant and <$50) is all I've got to test with and frankly the whole XML/GPX thing smells a bit like witchcraft but so far it seems to work. Mine doesn't record altitude but the space shuttle (yep, actual NASA craft) recorded and made altitude data available for pretty much everywhere. The next step will be to associate lat/lon measurements with height in order to plot a better altitude graph.