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It would be good to have the full map controls that we see on google itself, with the ability to see the terrain map, zoom from the mouse wheel, etc . I think these are the updates that would be required to the function showGoogleMap

I've found a website which can generate the maps, which can then be saved and loaded as an iframe in the Narrative report : http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=google

The website is aimed at people uploading their data from their gps devices (runners, cyclists, hot air balloonists, etc), so in order to get it to draw lines, you've got to enter some spurious time/speed info.

The website allows you to upload comma separated files containing the gps and marker data.  There is great documentation on the site, so I won't reproduce it here, but here is a portion of the csv files I uploaded to create the above map.

The file to create the markers is simple :

name,colour,description,lat,lon
"Roberts  - 1851, 61",brown,"Gresford under the Hill, Denbighshire, Wales",53.087555,-2.966352
"Roberts  - 1763, 1804, 32, 61, 65, 71",brown,"Gresford, Denbighshire, Wales",53.087014,-2.967682
"Roberts  - 1881",brown,"Station Street (no 40), Monks Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire",53.089823,-2.434545
"Roberts  - 1891",brown,"Christ Church, Crewe, Cheshire",53.096847,-2.440038
"Roberts  - 1897",brown,"Carlisle Street (no 4), Monks Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire",53.086911,-2.449458
"Roberts  - 1901",brown,"Walthall Street (no 239), Monks Coppenhall, Crewe, Cheshire",53.088934,-2.445638
"Stanton - 1768", 1806, 41",lime,"Stanton upon Hine Heath, Shropshire",52.811634,-2.641997
"Stanton  - 1881",lime,"Bella Terrace, Shavington, Cheshire",53.062856,-2.450337

type,trackpoint,name,colour,lat,lon,speed,time,BOT,EOD
t,1,Roberts,brown,53.087555,-2.966352,1,12:00:00,1,
t,2,,,53.087014,-2.967682,1,13:00:00,,
t,3,,,53.089823,-2.434545,1,14:00:00,,
t,4,,,53.096847,-2.440038,1,15:00:00,,
t,5,,,53.086911,-2.449458,1,16:00:00,,
t,6,,,53.088934,-2.445638,1,17:00:00,,1
t,1,Stanton,lime,52.811634,-2.641997,1,12:00:00,1,
t,2,,,53.062856,-2.450337,1,13:00:00,,1

The first column tells gpsvisulizer it is a "track", the second is the sequential number of the track point. Then you have the track name and colour (which only have to be set for the first point on the track).
Lat and Lon are obvious. The next two fields are spurious & arbitrary from our perspective, but seem to be necessary to get the "track" to draw - they're a fictional speed and time at each track point, I chose to increment the time by one hour for each track point.
The last two fields stand for "Beginning Of Track" and "End of Track" - use value of 1 if it is. It's just a way of having several "tracks" in one file.

Once you've got gpsvisulizer to create the map it gives you a link for saving it - (basically it opens the map on it's own, so you can right click and save the source code locally).

In terms of getting it to load in the Report, I've followed the advice of the gpsvisulizer site, and used an iframe.

As for getting the data out of GenoPro and munged into the right format - well that was a manual process copying the data from the Individuals, Places and Contacts tables into excel, with some judicious vlookups to bring the surnames, dates, places, and lat/lon information together on one sheet. (I can't code for toffee, but I'm sweet with Excel.)

It's been a fair amount of work, not least of which was researching the lat/lon for all the locations in my family tree (600+, with many streets which no longer exist - so some sleuthing was required there).

Hope this is of some use to others out there.

I'm a little reluctant to make many more changes to the Report right now. It has been showing stress from its organic growth for sometime and really should be rebuilt from the bottom up.

I have been lookiing around at the various javascript framework packages available but as yet not found one quite to my liking.

While I'm a systems administrator and fairly competant with computers, I'm a complete deadhead when it comes to code, so no major changes. I've gotten rid of the A - Z top level list element on each of the Indexes. For the Sources and Places Indexes I've modified the code so that a particular entry only comes up once - under it's parent source. For instance "Nantwich, Cheshire" now only appears under it's parent "Cheshire", rather than also appearing lower down the list with the N's. The advantage is that it makes the list easier view (and shorter), the disadvantage is if someone particularly wants to look at Nantwich, but doesn't know it's in Cheshire.... but I can live with that ;-) Oh, and I've also added some classes to body in the style.css to enable a different look for each of the frame types - indexes, main windows, popups, and the little frame along the top.  

Having done a fair amount of trawling of the support forums - I gather the report generator and the reports are all your work. Impressive!