[pct-l] Creating your own waypoint trail

[pshaw999 at cox.net]

Joel,

I presume you are talking about Google Earth as the source of the trail data
including any waypoints you want to add? If so, save the data in Google
Earth as a .kml file and then use the freeware program GPSBabel to convert
the .kml to a .gpx file. If the source file is a .kmz file (which is simply
a zipped version of a .kml file), load it into Google Earth and then save to
your "My Places" as a .kml file. You need to do this because GPSBabel
doesn't recognize the .kmz format. Once you get it into a .gpx file,
download as you would any .gpx file into your Garmin. That worked for me in
converting the Te Araroa .kmz file into a track on my DeLorme PN60w.

Hope that helps.

Peanut Eater

-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
On Behalf Of Joel Hawk
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 6:41 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Creating your own waypoint trail

Does anyone know how I can create a gpx file from Google satellite?  I would
like to follow a trail and insert waypoints to my destination and then
download it to my Garmin, but can't quite figure out how.  I'm new to the
Garmin gps.

Joel a.k.a. "Big Man"

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