Mapsource 6.9 Beta to Google Earth

This is a great new feature.

As an experiment I created a bicyle route and altered it using a
network of obscure roads. At this point (as expected), when viewing the
route in Google Earth, it only showed straight lines between waypoints
and user points.

However, when I converted the route to a track using WinGDB, I was then
able to view my entire route actually following roads. (Well, almost
following roads. There is a slight shift in where the mapping software
and the satellite photos show the roads to be, but it is very minor.)

When first viewed, Google Earth inserts a diamond at every point where
Mapsource and/or WinGDB includes a point to define a change in
direction to show curvature in the road, so you need to turn the
"points" layer off.

To do this: From the "Places" menu, Temporary Places, GPS Devices,
Tracks, Track name, Points. At this selection you can delete any or all
points.

Only a map fanatic like me (and many others in this group) would bother
with something like this!)

Bob

rkharvey@verizon.net wrote:

There's lots of us, I immediately tried out this feature when I read
about the beta. :-)

Terje
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"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

yes its great!

zurdo
www.geocoder.com.ar

Is there somewhere some documentation,
how to, etc. for this feature? And doe's it
work with the free version of Google Earth?

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Sylvain Bouju
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Sylvain Bouju wrote:

Works with the free Google Earth. Exports your tracks as a line and a
series of waypoints onto Google Earth, so you can see a line and the
waypoints drawn over the earth images. (Google Earth lets you turn these on
and off, save them, etc..).

Rather nice, particularly having just come back from a 200+km trek through
Switzerland. Saved me purchasing the upgraded Google Earth to do just the
same :-)


Documentation, not found any, but didn't look hard.



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