[pct-l] Trail Mapping - Bay Area Ridge Trail

[Ken Powers]

You should be able to save your trace from mapping programs as a GPX file. 
You may have to export instead of saving the file. You can open the GPX file 
in most mapping programs including Google Earth. If that doesn't work try 
downloading GPSBabel. Its a free program that now has 2 GUI versions. It is 
an Open Source program that translates between various mapping filetypes and 
does a very good job. If you have problems, email me.

Ken
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J J at Ridge Trail" <jj at ridgetrailhiker.com>
To: "PCT MailingList" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 9:58 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Trail Mapping - Bay Area Ridge Trail


Greetings,

Please forgive the off topic post, but this is my primary hiking community 
and the first place I go for related advice.

First, thanks to Ken Powers, Postholer, and Halfmile for advice and guidance 
early in the process. I have begun to create tracks on the Bay Area Ridge 
Trail, starting in my backyard: the Oakland hills. I am using a Garmin 60CSx 
and Garmin BaseCamp software to pull the GPX tracks off the device. Then 
cleaning up the tracks and saving the modified tracks for mapping using 
Garmin TOPO, National Geographic TOPO, and hopefully Google Maps.

The problem: I can find a lot to read about Google Maps, but cannot 
determine how to post a GPX track there, short of spending $400, which I 
prefer not to do.

Also: what is the best way to publish maps, and which kind of map is best to 
publish online?

Walk well,
Jim Keener ( J J )
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jj at ridgetrailhiker.com
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