| Author | Message | ||
     Pso |
I know this is going to show what a Ludite I am but being at home sick this past week I got to play with my Garmin Unit(GPS that is),which I have had for the last 5 years, and was downloaded a trip I made to NY last summer. When I then loaded the track onto Google Earth I got the track but it was a very wide dark black line. When I zoomed in this line was composed of a whole series of square boxes with black squares within the box. How do I convert this to a simple track? I have played with the GPS,software, and google earth for several hours for the last two days and I am not getting anywhere other than finding all sort of neat stuff (almost scary)that google earth will do.Thanks | ||
| Towpro |
When you say downloading a trip you made to NY, are you downloading the tracks from the GPS? What you looking at in google earth sounds like a track. What is the file extension of the file you are importing into google earth? Did you find the feature yet where you can fly in a plane above your route  | ||
| Pso |
Perhaps I have solved my delema after spending the day getting a track to use (tough job but someone needed to do it), I played around w/the Garmin and Google Earth software. Seems like I needed to go to the Google Earth software and download the track there, instead of going to the Map Source software from Garmin to download track. I get all the track points when I use the Garmin versus the Google Earth. | ||
| Towpro |
Maybe there is an easier way. When you say downloading, are you downloading the track from your GPS? | ||
| Itileman |
I'm about to open the package my first GPS arrived in. Will bookmark this thread for sure. Got an older one, Quest 2, but it looks like it will do what I want, which is pretty simple stuff, and it has updated maps/topos. It's waterproof, is there more? | ||
| Pso |
Towpro, I am not sure how to word this so it is clear and conscise. Instead of useing the GPS MapSource tool bar and going to View, then scrolling down to view on google earth, I open up Google Earth and go to GPS on Google Earth program and go into box and check the ssquare for track and altitiude and then download from there. What happens then is that I do not get all the littel points from the GPS that make a huge black line on the Google earth map, I just get the route taken. I will try again today with a new route just because all experiments must be replicated to check for validity. If this is the system to use my next adventure will be figuring out how to post a pic of the computer screen of the track taken. there is something to be said for a hi-lighter and AAA map. Just seems so much easier, but there I go again as a ludite. | ||
| Nadz |
You can do all kinds of neat stuff with gpsvisualizer.com . My favorite is to color the track by velocity! | ||
| Pso |
Now that I think that I have it figured out how to get the google earth maps of a track fro my Garmin, how do I get them so that I can post them? I notice that some times folks are able to post pics of their screens from Mapsource and also from google earth. I do no tknow how to do either. Before you know it I will arrive in the 20th century, after awhile perhaps I will make it to the 21st. |
