Map from mail posted to a blog Check the project web page for details. I have modestly invented a fully automated service "Mail-2-Map" based entirely on free web services. It reads coordinates sent by a collar, and displays it on the map below.
The map refreshes itself on regular basis. Originally it was designed for Thor, the first in the world deer-geoblogger. Now the map tracks Solomon, a young buck.
Last location was received on Local Time.
Map and data were refreshed on Local Time.
Next transmission+/-20 min Local (Eastern) Time plus some time for the Google-spreadsheets refresh cycle.
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The Google-Earth version of the "Mail-to-Map" track of Solomon is here. Full instructions how to make you own "Mail-to-Map" service are here.
Canadian Broadcast Corporation was so impressed with the method of relaying the coordinates via Google's Cloud, so it decided to interview the coder.
