Garmin "Tracks" imported into Google Earth?

WarioTBH · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2008 Posts: 7

A quote from this website - http://www.gumball144.com/google-geo/

philpugh · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:18 am Post subject:

Depends on what you mean by 'normal' Wink

Most GPS receivers for outdoor activities (eg GARMIN GPS60, Colorado, Oregon, eTrex....) can record a tracklog (i.e. position and altitude logged at a pre-defined interval) of trips/walks etc to memory. These can be downloaded and processed to plot onto Google Earth / MemoryMap etc... They can also be used to geo-reference photographs taken by your digital camera (as long as you set the camera time correctly).

If you are talking about car-based navigation (e.g the nuvi and streetpilot series) then this facility tends to be missing. Newer TomTom devices have this facility I believe.

I think the lack of this facility is in part based on the belief that the mass-market users wouldn't use this facility where as the outdoor user does.
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WarioTBH · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 09, 2008 Posts: 7

Ah i see

Thanks for the info Smile

Scarecrow · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

You can do it with a 760 (and presumably an 8xx as well).

I recently completed a tour of Europe, recording my route as I went. The 760 has enough capacity in it's tracklog feature to record a total of about 11 hours, before it starts to record new data over the oldest data.

To make sure that I didn't lose any information I downloaded the tracks each day to a laptop.

I use a freely downloadable utility called GPicSync to both Geotag my photos and to create a .kml file which I can then view in Google Earth, complete with the photos that I have just Geotagged.

gatorguy6996 · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

All the Garmin models that support multi-point routing offer the tracklog function AFAIK.
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philpugh · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

I must replace my 660! Then I would know about these things. A quick look at the user manual for the 7xx devices didn't reveal this info - I guess it's another of the GARMIN "hidden" features Laughing

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gatorguy6996 · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject:

One of the new 7x5's would make a worthy replacement Wink

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