[GNHLUG] GPS GPX KML Google Earth - Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 9 July

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> What : GPS, GPX, KML, Google Earth - Where am I?  How did I get here?
[...]
>   For those who don't know, Rob is a motorcycle nut ^W enthusiast.
> This means he periodically goes on long trips on a bike for no reason.
>  When he does, he brings a GPS, which logs his track in GPX format.
> Rob has done the homework needed to take that GPX log off his GPS
> gadget and convert that data into KML format -- the format used by
> Google Maps and Earth.  That lets Rob plot his course on a map, or
> even generate a 3D fly-through movie.  Tonight he'll talk about how he
> did it.

FYI, a number of distros now include this nice little mapping app,
great for plotting GPX routes and points of interest on a map,
geotagging your photos and plotting them along the route where they
were taken, and some other things--including when offline:

         http://www.foxtrotgps.org/

(^_^)

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