+Blackjack Bailey Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 For those of you that are interested, read on... I recently needed to find the best way to climb up to the top of a mountain, in order to place a new cache. When I looked at Mapsource (with Topo v1.5 loaded), no hiking trails were shown. So I viewed the mountain in Google Earth and worked out a good route by looking at a combination of jeep tracks and livestock trails. I then used GE's "create a path" tool to trace the route that I wanted to follow. Then I saved the path as a *.kml file, and used GPSBabel to convert the *.kml file into a *.gdb file - the path is then shown as a Mapsource track, which I then transferred to my GPSr! This is a great way of preparing for a recce hike! Quote Link to comment
Geoff Ogden Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 Wow - how cool is that!!! Thanks Neville and also thanks for taking the time out to assist. Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 I have done something along a similar vein. I saved the google track in kml format and then used a utility KML2GPX to convert it to gpx format. I think the one I used I got here In my case I loaded that into Mapsend Lite and exported to my Magellan Explorist. Apparently EasyGPS (and I'm sure GSAK or GPSBABEL) could also convert it into the right format for your unit. Quote Link to comment
+vespax Posted November 23, 2007 Share Posted November 23, 2007 You can do lots of things with these little units of ours! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment
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