+hmart316 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 I am a newb when it comes to google earth and exporting tracks to it from my oregon 300. Can someone tell me what I might have done wrong? For the first time today, I attached my GPS to my RAM bike mount and set it to log my track after turning it off in geocaching mode since I've had my oregon. Went for a short bike ride and saved my track. Upon my return home I plugged in my oregon into my mac. I copied over my current.gpx to my desktop and opened it with google earth. When it asked me what to import in, I chose routes and tracks and told it to color in my track, but for some reason it does not show up. It shows me where I started my bike ride or where I saved the track on my GPS (Same location in the parking lot) but nothing else, there is no track. So I tried importing the tracks thru Google earth directly and the same thing happens. No track, just the location of either where I started or saved my track. So I tried the GPSVisualizer site and had it create a KMZ file of my track and that does not work either. Curiously, I can view my track on the Oregon thru Track manager and it shows up correctly on the map. Was there something else I was supposed to do to get it to show up in google earth? I'm running 2.98 beta firmware on my oregon, if that helps to figure this mystery out. I hope someone here can help. Thanks in advance. hmart316 Quote Link to comment
dug-it Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Download your track to Basecamp, right click on the track and select "View in Google Earth". It works for me. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 The non-beta version of Earth 5.0 on Mac should recognize Oregon via tools->GPS. Quote Link to comment
+hmart316 Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 I'll try basecamp, thanks for the link dug-it. robertlipe. here is my version of google earth. Do you know if I have the non-beta version? Quote Link to comment
photomankc Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Check the time scale in the upper left corner and see if that is opened up to include all the time of your ride. If the two sliders are jammed together on the left then it wont show the data from your file. Thats exactly what was happening to me before I figured out that time scale thing. Quote Link to comment
robertlipe Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 That's the non-beta. The non-beta will open the time slider to the max extent when reading directly from a GPS or GPX file. This is a change of behaviour from versions 4.0 (when the time line was introduced) through the beta 5.0. Quote Link to comment
+Entropy512 Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Check the time scale in the upper left corner and see if that is opened up to include all the time of your ride. If the two sliders are jammed together on the left then it wont show the data from your file. Thats exactly what was happening to me before I figured out that time scale thing. Yeah, that's the only problem I've ever had with importing tracks from the Oregon to Google Earth. Usually: I save a track in Track Manager on the Oregon Plug the Oregon into my PC Load the GPX directly from the Oregon's storage That's it, works like that in Windows and Linux so I am assuming Mac too. Quote Link to comment
+hmart316 Posted July 7, 2009 Author Share Posted July 7, 2009 Quick update: I took my GPS with me to work to try it on the Mac there and tried the same steps I outlined previously and have the same problem. Google Earth is at the same version I have at home but there are no tracks highlighted. I think my sliders are set correctly. Can anyone else confirm this for me? Also, I only pick to import tracks into google earth but it seems to pickup my waypoints as well, even though I uncheck the option for importing waypoints. And when I imported my track, I noticed this message. Shouldn't I have more than one track point or does that not matter? Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.