We've got our website set up and running - been on the go for 18 months now and works really well and seems popular ( www.freewebs.com/jksailing ).
Following the success of the SSB installation (see my previous post) I've been investigating ways to update our website via email when at sea. It seems its not possible on Freewebs, but I have set up a Sailblog account which works with Sailmail very well and should allow us to update our blog when at sea (I will put a link to this from our main website when its up and running and then just update the main website when we have wifi).
However, I was hoping to use something like Google Maps / Google Earth to allow people to track where we are. The Sailblogs email I send from Sailmail contains our position at the time of sending, and for a fee Sailblogs can plot this on a map for you. Sounds perfect, but I hoped to be able to do this for free using Google maps or something. Now I have found how to create your own Map with Google maps and how to add places to it manually, but is there anyway to automatically update you Google Maps position via an email?
I have seen some cruisers who have their daily position plotted automatically ... can this be done for free or do I need to pay for the Sailblogs update (in which case I won't bother!).
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