Major trails on Google Earth?

[+imajeep]

I just discovered that Google Earth has major trails in US national parks--go to a national park, such as Yosemite, and checkmark Layers > Travel and Tourism > Parks and Recreation Areas > US National Parks > Trails, and the trails appear in red.

 

That's cool, but does GE have major trails outside the national parks, such as the Appalachian Trail, or the Pacific Crest Trail?

Edited October 5, 2007 by imajeep

[+cameltrekor]

Here's two:

 

PCT

CDT

[+imajeep]

Here's two:

 

PCT

CDT

 

 

Very cool--Thanks!

[+cameltrekor]

and I found another that covers all of the CDT

 

hope you are thru-hiking, that's still on my wishlist.

[ki0eh]

Just discovered the new version of DNR Garmin (download it free from http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mis/gis/tools/a.../DNRGarmin.html ) will take a shapefile (you can get "Arc View shape file" for the A.T. from http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.jkL...d_Agreement.htm ) and save it as a Google Earth .kml file with no Garmin GPSr required.

 

There is a trick needed, and that is to "set projection" in the DNR Garmin program to what the projection is of the shapefile (in the case of the A.T. shapefile, it is Decimal Degrees, NAD27) before reading the shapefile into the DNR Garmin program and then saving the file as a .kml.

 

But as these programs go, that's a pretty easy configuration.

[+imajeep]

Just discovered the new version of DNR Garmin (download it free from http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mis/gis/tools/a.../DNRGarmin.html ) will take a shapefile (you can get "Arc View shape file" for the A.T. from http://www.appalachiantrail.org/site/c.jkL...d_Agreement.htm ) and save it as a Google Earth .kml file with no Garmin GPSr required.

 

There is a trick needed, and that is to "set projection" in the DNR Garmin program to what the projection is of the shapefile (in the case of the A.T. shapefile, it is Decimal Degrees, NAD27) before reading the shapefile into the DNR Garmin program and then saving the file as a .kml.

 

But as these programs go, that's a pretty easy configuration.

 

Hey, thanks! That is very cool, indeed!