Mapping Made Easier

I've been struggling, for years, to share little maps of places I've been and trips I've taken. The evidence is there, if you care to dive deep for it. A couple of days ago, all that changed. It is now easy-peasy: Overland1 on my phone records the trips and sends the data to Compass on my server; when Compass receives notice that a trip has ended, it sends the details to the new Micropub plugin here in Grav; and the plugin creates the route on a static map image and drafts a bare-bones post to display it. All with the help of Claude. If you're of the belief that all uses of generative AI are anathema, go read something else. I have explained my own views, and this project fell squarely into the territory of "use it to help you do things that you perhaps could manage on your own, but that would take too long to be worthwhile". There was a lot to do; I'm not going to go through it all here, though I did ask for comprehensive documentation, and got it. I had done a personal brain-dump of…

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