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Hello all,
does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
"flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
wrote:
"GPS Utility" will do a "best can do" symbol set translation from
MapSource symbols to Google Earth symbols if you open the Mapsource
file and then in Options|Field Properties in the Symbol Set box select
or type in "SSGEarth1". The icons will not be the same, but the
meaning should be 'equivalent'. Any symbols which cannot be
translated because there is no equivalent in the GE symbol set will be
assigned the default waypoint symbol.
If you have problem with this, then please send me a source Mapsource
file and I will see if the symbol translation can be improved.
See www.gpsu.co.uk for "GPS Utility"
Alan Murphy
Thanks for the answer,
but for the moment "GPS Utility" seems to be not perfect... From my
hundred of waypoints, only 2 (two!) were recognized ("Picnic area" was
marked as "Tree" and "Restaurant" as "Coffee cup"). Moreover, the
implementation is not the best: instead of defining the styles in the
beginning of kml (using <Style> section) and then referring to these
styles, this utility just refers directly to the icon each time
describing the placemark (it means that "meta-information" about the
waypoint's category is actually lost!). In fact, I do not need really
the best-fit icon from GEarth's set but rather defining the style
which will keep the information about waypoint's category (i.e. the
name of the style in KML would correspond to the <sym> field in GPX
format) - in this case user can later define icons used for each
style.
I hope that you will be able to improve your tool...
Good luck!
> wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> >files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> >icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> >waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> >"flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> >converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> >Any ideas?
> >Thanks in advance!
> >does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> >files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> >icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> >waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> >"flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> >converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> >Any ideas?
> >Thanks in advance!
> "GPS Utility" will do a "best can do" symbol set translation from
> MapSource symbols to Google Earth symbols if you open the Mapsource
> file and then in Options|Field Properties in the Symbol Set box select
> or type in "SSGEarth1". The icons will not be the same, but the
> meaning should be 'equivalent'. Any symbols which cannot be
> translated because there is no equivalent in the GE symbol set will be
> assigned the default waypoint symbol.
> If you have problem with this, then please send me a source Mapsource
> file and I will see if the symbol translation can be improved.
> Seewww.gpsu.co.ukfor "GPS Utility"
> Alan Murphy
> MapSource symbols to Google Earth symbols if you open the Mapsource
> file and then in Options|Field Properties in the Symbol Set box select
> or type in "SSGEarth1". The icons will not be the same, but the
> meaning should be 'equivalent'. Any symbols which cannot be
> translated because there is no equivalent in the GE symbol set will be
> assigned the default waypoint symbol.
> If you have problem with this, then please send me a source Mapsource
> file and I will see if the symbol translation can be improved.
> Seewww.gpsu.co.ukfor "GPS Utility"
> Alan Murphy
> Hello all,
> does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> "flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance!
> does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> "flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> Any ideas?
> Thanks in advance!
Hi,
I have developed and application to convert GPS tracklogs to kml/
kmz: C_GPS2KML that you can find at www.claudegps.altervista.org
Actually the application will not do what you ask with the icons(nor
has the mapsource file format support), but I always look for ideas to
extend the application.
A good idea would be to support you requirements. :)
If you want, you could give me an help sending me log files(in you
format) so that I can work on them adding the file format support and
the "original icons" feature... (my e-mail is valid ;-) )
Claudio
www.claudegps.altervista.org
Hello Claudio,
about my requirements - actually, I don't really need to keep the
original icons - I only want to keep the waypoint's category (which is
defined by <sym> element in gpx format and would be "id" in <Style>
element of kml ). And talking about formats - my original files are in
Mapsource format, but it is not the problem as I can convert them
lossless to GPX. And from GPX it is easier to convert to any other
format. For KML, it could be just XSLT transformation as the most
universal way.
Your application looks nice, I will try to play with it (and if you
will implement keeping of <Style> - it would be great). For the first
glance - I would recommend you not to draw arrows with lines (this is
very awkward!) but rather put "arrow" icon for which you can use
<heading> to choose direction.
> > Hello all,
> > does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> > files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> > icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> > waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> > "flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> > converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks in advance!
> > does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
> > files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
> > icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
> > waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
> > "flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
> > converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
> > Any ideas?
> > Thanks in advance!
> Hi,
> I have developed and application to convert GPS tracklogs to kml/
> kmz: C_GPS2KML that you can find atwww.claudegps.altervista.org
> Actually the application will not do what you ask with the icons(nor
> has the mapsource file format support), but I always look for ideas to
> extend the application.
> A good idea would be to support you requirements. :)
> If you want, you could give me an help sending me log files(in you
> format) so that I can work on them adding the file format support and
> the "original icons" feature... (my e-mail is valid ;-) )
> Claudiowww.claudegps.altervista.org
> I have developed and application to convert GPS tracklogs to kml/
> kmz: C_GPS2KML that you can find atwww.claudegps.altervista.org
> Actually the application will not do what you ask with the icons(nor
> has the mapsource file format support), but I always look for ideas to
> extend the application.
> A good idea would be to support you requirements. :)
> If you want, you could give me an help sending me log files(in you
> format) so that I can work on them adding the file format support and
> the "original icons" feature... (my e-mail is valid ;-) )
> Claudiowww.claudegps.altervista.org
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>does anybody knows any software that could convert MapSource track
>files (.mps and .gdb) to GoogleEarth (.kml) format preserving Garmin
>icons of waypoints? All tools that I tried reduce all types of
>waypoints to one type (assigning them the standard icon of "square" or
>"flag" etc.). GPS Visualizer kept the original icons, but only when
>converted to GoogleMaps, not to kml format...
>Any ideas?
>Thanks in advance!