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WarioTBH Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: Garmin "Tracks" imported into Google Earth? |
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A quote from this website - http://www.gumball144.com/google-geo/
Quote: | The use of multiple Garmin GPS units - each recording a section of our tracks cross-country - and these tracks’ seemless export into Google Earth |
Can this be done with a normal Garmin GPS device? if so... how can you record a route you have driven?
Im lost
Can anyone help? :P[/quote] |
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philpugh Lifetime Member
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: |
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Depends on what you mean by 'normal'
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. _________________ Phil |
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WarioTBH Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: |
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Ah i see
Thanks for the info ![Smile](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) |
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Scarecrow Lifetime Member
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Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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gatorguy6996 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:22 am Post subject: |
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All the Garmin models that support multi-point routing offer the tracklog function AFAIK. _________________ Garmin 1695 / 255 / 760 w/MSN - Droid w/Google nav + Navigon - Navigon 8100T - Dakota10 - GPSMap76C - GeoMate Jr. |
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philpugh Lifetime Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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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](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) _________________ Phil |
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gatorguy6996 Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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One of the new 7x5's would make a worthy replacement ![Wink](modules/Forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif) _________________ Garmin 1695 / 255 / 760 w/MSN - Droid w/Google nav + Navigon - Navigon 8100T - Dakota10 - GPSMap76C - GeoMate Jr. |
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