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

[Carl Siechert]

One other cool thing about EveryTrail: Your GPS trace can be overlaid on
USGS topo maps as well as Google Maps, Google Earth, and satellite images
(the regular Google ones, plus USGS images, which often have higher
resolution).

On 11/25/06, Craig Stanton <craigstanton at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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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