April 16, 2008 – 3:32 pm
Garmin GPS to Google Earth
For this task I use GPSBabel, a great little donateware utility, to generate the Google Earth KML files from GPX files created by Garmin Mapsource. The procedure for creating the GPX files from Mapsource is detailed in the next section.
GPS waypoints and associated photos to Google Maps
Let me begin by saying there have got to be better, more automated and more professional ways to go about getting waypoints from your GPS and associated photos into Google Maps than my method.
Second disclaimer: The days of my putting food on the table by writing code are long past. These days I teach myself as much as I need to get something to work and stop right there. Consequently, my method for this process grew, bit by ugly bit, out of necessity, and was never intended for anything but internal use. My process is, unfortunately, a world class kludge and requires some manual steps.
If you do a search on “gpx to google maps conversion” you will get a lot of hits. There are also lots of things that put up geocoded photos into Google Maps, so I would guess someone has built a decent solution for this by now.
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