
Out of all the geocaching-related mapping programs including the various Google Earth overlays, this simple online utility has by-far the most WOW factor. This short tutorial is designed to quickly help you take a simple GPX track file downloaded from your GPS to a fully interactive and color-coded map on Google Earth.
- Begin by downloading your own GPX track file from your GPSr or by using my sample file, here.
- Visit the GPS Visualizer Map page, http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map.
- Change the first drop down box called "Output format:" to Google Earth and allow the page to switch you to the specialized Google Earth form.
- Change "Altitude mode:" to your preferred style. For my flight path example, I selected "Extruded."
- Change "Colorize by:" to your preferred style. For my flight path example, I selected "Speed." All other options on this page are completely optional and do not need to be changed from the defaults.
- In the right-hand column, click Browse and find your saved GPX track file.
- Click "Create KML file" button and view your results!

1 comment:
Hey, don't forget to mention that GPS Visualizer can also read .LOC files from Geocaching.com! :-)
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