cache along a route

[+novw.nl]

I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask, if not: please move or close the topic ?

 

I want to go caching a long a route, so I created a route in google MAPS. Than I figured out I need to recreate the route in google EARTH. And this is where things go hickup.

 

I want to go from A to B, through / via C. The fastest way from A to B is a straight line, so Google earth plots the route (duh) in a straight line. NOT passing C.

 

And I can't for the liofe of me figure out how and where and if it is possible at all to re-route in google EARTH.

 

Question: Can I do a via in Earth ?

 

If not: can I make 2 routes (.kml) and link the 2 to make one large® route ?

 

If not again: boohoo 1 sob ! Sob ! Cry !

[+novw.nl]

aha ! Victory. Sort of.

 

To answer my own question, because it migyt be handy for others:

 

on

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=googleearth

you can upload 3 seperate .kml files, and output one that contains the three. Not beautiful because you still need to do a route in EARTH instead of on MAPS, but hey ! It works.

[+Corey]

I see, you'll still get 3 separate routes, but since they're all in one file, the website can merge them.

You could also do this with GPSBabel, which I think GPSVisualizer is partly just a front-end for.

[+Hynr]

I find that I generally don't really want the exact route because it takes every little turn (sometimes I want that but mostly not). So in Google Earth I just create a crude path that goes roughly where I want (In the navigation pane, right-click "Add", "Path"). I save this as kml (not kmz) and upload that. I can get this done in one or two minutes even for long complicated routes (definitely in less time than it takes to fuse several route segments). Instead of a gazillion route points, it has a couple dozen and will be much faster for the system to process.