Re: riding routes database


You could implement something like this VERY easily in Google Earth, it
uses a file format called 'Geographic XML' (.KML) to store things like
markers, routes and waypoints. So if you could record the unicycle
routes (e.g. using a GPS, or an external program like Memory Map),
convert them to KML and import them to Google Earth (I've been looking
into serving a KML file that gets updated, and Google Earth detects the
updates and redownloads the file, adding the new data, like a podcast
but for Unicycle trails).

There's only 1 problem with this, and that is the fact that to make
routes in Google Earth you need one of the subscription versions, not
the free one. (I'm not sure about just viewing or importing routes from
KML, if you can do that on the free version or not). I'll look for
conversion software (or write one myself) to convert normal trail GPS
data to KML, and see what I can do...

Loose.

EDIT: It looks like I can use this program: http://www.gpsbabel.org/ to
convert ANY track data, even raw GPS feeds, straight to KML files and
use them in GE. So if anyone has any GPS tracks, or tracks saved from a
mapping program, and wants to send them to me to add to the 1st beta
version of a Unicycling TrailCast for Google Earth, then PM me the
file, or send it to Richard[dot]Uni[A@t]Gmail[dot]com.


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