GPX & KML Format

[0Face]

I used the SPOT Tracker to track my route on my recent trip and I have the data from it in KML & GPX format. The tracker creates a plot point every 10-20 minutes. What I'm looking to do is re-create the route I rode. I can import the data to Google earth or Google maps but I can't seem to get either of them to create the route on the roads. Since the tracker only plots every few minutes, it doesn't catch every turn. I know you can drag some routes around in Google maps but it runs out of available plot points.

Really, all I'm looking to do is highlight my route so I can share it. Seems easier to just use a highlighter on a map and take a picture of it.

I’ve seen some really cool maps generated on the forum but I think they’re taken directly from a GPS mapping program. I just have the raw data.

Any ideas?

Did that make sense?

 

[Ignacio]

GSPU will read a GPX file that you then can convert to an Auto Route .txt file, then open in Microsoft Streets and Trips as pushpins. Then you add the pushpins to a route and S&T will interpolate a road route that best fits.

Fairly convoluted and requires download of GPSU (Google it) and purchase of MS&T, but it is one way.

 

[0Face]

Thanks. How Did I know it wasn't as easy as I thought.

I'll give it whirl when I get 3 extra hours.

 

[HaulinAshe]

Why not simply suck the GPX file into MapSucks and generate a route from there.

Email it to me and I'll do it for you.

 

[wfooshee]

^^^^^ I was gonna say that, but I figured he had the SPOT tracker but no Garmin stuff, so no MapSource.

Oface, what you have in the file is a series of points, not a track, and you want a track, right?

Delorme Street Atlas will import a .gpx file directly. If it's just waypoints (what Street Atlas calls "Vias") you'll have to order them into a route, just as you would with Mapsource.

 

[HaulinAshe]

His file has over 300 points in it. Makes a very busy and ugly route map.

I used a text editor to make all the point names three digits. Changed 1-track to 001-track and so on. That makes them all sort in order inside MapSucks. Just select all and make the route.

Definitely would work better with roughly 30-40 points max. I couldn't find anything that intelligently limited the points.