[pct-l] EveryTrail: View your hike from above

[Craig Stanton]

Thanks for the link. I'm planning on carrying a little GPS box with  
me the whole way next year. It doesn't do navigation, it doesn't even  
have a screen, so the battery lasts a little longer and I'm working  
on more power saving features, possibly a solar panel, so that I  
don't need to carry a load of AAs with me. with just a few regular  
memory cards I hope to track the entire route and plot my photos  
along it. My dad did a test run with the device and my camera up  
Mount Whitney in July and it worked like a charm. I tend to use  
Google Earth for viewing rather than Google Maps. The 3D landscape is  
amazing.



~Craig


On 11/11/2006, at 11:15 AM, Carl Siechert wrote:

> Here's an interesting new website to check out: EveryTrail.com.
> <http://www.everytrail.com>
>
> Here's how it works. You go on a hike, GPS receiver in hand, and use
> the GPS receiver to track your entire trip (not just the waypoints).
> Then you upload your GPS trace data to everytrail.com, which overlays
> it on satellite images from Google Maps. You can also upload photos
> from your hike, and it places them on the map by correlating the time
> they were taken with the GPS data. Slick! (And if your camera clock
> isn't set precisely, that's okay. Link one picture to the actual
> location where it was taken, and EveryTrail corrects the location of
> all other photos.) You can view several Sierra hikes on the site now,
> such as this Mt. Whitney climb:
> <http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=47>
>
> I haven't tried to use EveryTrail, except as an armchair viewer. (In
> fact, this Luddite -- er, real mountain man -- doesn't own a GPS
> receiver.) But it looks pretty cool. I look forward to seeing *your*
> trip posted soon.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
> 1977 PCT Kelty Kid
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