How to create an online map showing a travel itinerary?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 23 Jul, 2023
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Travellerspoint’s mapping tool does what you’re looking for. It will allow you to map out many trips on a single map. Flights are shown with an arc. Train, car, bus routes will follow the roads. You can also drill down into each of the locations you stopped at to see some information for that location. This is from guide content written by the members.
After creating your map, you will get some stats about your travels and you will also be able to embed that map on other sites. It uses the mapbox-gl mapping engine with a choice of different tile sets.
Full disclosure: I run Travellerspoint. I also think it meets your needs perfectly so is a good answer for this question.
You could try uMap. This is a free tool, based on OpenStreetMap.
It lets you add markers on the map, or you can draw lines, or polygons. It has plenty of options for customisation, you can change the style or colours of lines, or the symbols used for markers, or the style of the background map.
It can import and export data in a variety of formats. You can share the map with others, or embed it in your own website.
Note that uMap will only draw straight lines between points. ie it won’t automatically follow roads or flight paths etc, unless you click to add points along the way. Or you could create a GPS track in other software, then import it into uMap.
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One free tool that I know of to generate maps of air travel is Great Circle Mapper.
The initial UI is pretty simple but there are a lot of customization options. You can look at the many Featured Maps to get examples.
Offered since ferry travel was specifically noted as secondary.
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