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GPS, TRIPS, AND GOOGLE EARTH

Published February 28, 2008 by CHRISTOPHER M. PALMER

Everywhere I drove in Southern California	A 3D view of my drive through Malibu Canyon	A photo I took during my drive though Malibu Canyon
Drive along Mulholland Drive with points of interest highlighted	The curviest road I've ever driven on (near the Hollywood sign)

Here is a neat way to record your vacation and be able to "replay" it whenever you want.

A couple of years ago I went to Southern California for the first time on a business trip and I had a free day or so to explore. I wanted to see as much as possible, so I spend a lot of time just driving around, stopping whenever something interested me.

I had my Garmin Legend handheld in the car, attached to the dash with a suction cup mount (which is now illegal in California, I don't know if it was then). I was primarily using it make sure I didn't get lost and could find my way back to the hotel in Anaheim, but I'd recently began experimenting with Google Earth, so I made sure that I kept the tracklogs on the GPS and downloaded them to my laptop every night.

When I imported the tracklogs into Google Earth, I was able to see exactly where I had traveled. Even cooler, I could set it "fly" along my driving paths in 3D and explore the terrain. When you combine that with the community of user information in Google Earth, you can identify landmarks. Unfortunately, that was after the fact, so later I could find that I drove right by Pamela Anderson's house, but didn't know it.

Of course, modern GPS navigation systems make it a lot easier to find your way around unfamiliar cities and even then I could have connected the GPS to my laptop for better maps (even though that would have made for hazardous driving), but being able to analyze the trip data in different ways once I got home was really cool.

You can also geocode photographs you take and post them on Flickr or other sites, then generate KML files for Google Earth to link your photos directly onto the maps, right along side the tracks you made, so you can see where you stopped and took photos.

I wrote a blog entry about this quite a while back that has links to more detailed photos and links to more sources of information on how to do this. I don't know if I can link directly to it here, but the URL is:

http://cmpalmer.blogspot.com/2005/12/trips-google-earth-and-gps.html

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