What's the best way to display GPS Tracklogs on a website?

Question

I recently got a GPS Tracklogger, so when I go on a weekend trip, I can stick it in my bag and record everywhere I go. That's great and all, but when I get back home and download the waypoints, I'm left with a sample of data that looks like this:

No,Latitude,Longitude,Altitude,Speed,Date,Time
1,-34.598396,-58.388947,60.0,1.6,2009/12/11,09:47:00
2,-34.598190,-58.388912,66.0,0.3,2009/12/11,09:47:10
3,-34.598240,-58.388954,75.0,1.1,2009/12/11,09:47:20
4,-34.598354,-58.389286,78.0,1.4,2009/12/11,09:47:33
5,-34.598255,-58.389347,57.0,1.3,2009/12/11,09:47:55

Since I'm sleeping somewhere my tracks eventually overlap and clump up onto specific areas.

My question is: what are the coolest things you've seen done with this type of data?

I'm looking for examples of how sites display this data and solve the clumping and overlapping problems. I want to display this data on my website, but just making a path on Google Maps is ugly and useless without something additional. If you have your own ideas, by all means explain them (w/ paint mockups would be nice!).

Answer 1

There are a lot of websites that will let you upload your GPS data and share it with other users. For example, I've used Bikely a lot for sharing bike routes. EveryTrail does this too, with a focus on hiking more than biking. There are many, many others.

GPS visualizer will take your GPS data and render it on a map with a variety of options.

You can also import your GPS data into Google Earth.

Most of these require that you get your GPS data in GPX format. If your device can't do this natively, you may want to look at gpsbabel, a tool for converting between various GPS data formats.