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Recently my dad walked the “Camino de Santiago” and forwarded way points he had taken with his Garmin GPS with some notes about each point. I looked at the the Garmin output and it seemed I needed MapQuest to read them? Not too deterred and not wishing to wait for a copy of MapQuest I thought there must be a way to convert these files. A little bit of searching and I came across an amazing utility “gpsbabel”, that was able to cross covert many formats.
Once downloaded I then ran the following command:
gpsbabel -i gdb,roadbook -f sample.gdb -x nuketypes,waypoints,tracks -x transform,wpt=rte -o kml -F sample.kml
where sample.gdb is from the Garmin GPS and sample.kml is the output file.
This KML file had data for both Google Maps and Google Earth (double the info I needed), so I manually removed one set and also added data to the name and description tags. So once I had a single KML file
with data like so for each way point:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | <Placemark> <name>Altos de Perdón</name> <Snippet /> <description> <![CDATA[ <table><tr><td>CdS crosses NA 6005.</td></tr> <tr><td><small>lon: -1.742692</small></td></tr> <tr><td><small>lat: 42.735722</small></td></tr> <tr><td><small>alt: 2503.827 ft</small></td></tr> </table> ]]></description> <LookAt> <longitude>-1.742692</longitude> <latitude>42.735722</latitude> <tilt>66</tilt> </LookAt> <styleUrl>#route</styleUrl> <Point> <coordinates>-1.742692,42.735722,763.166504</coordinates> </Point> </Placemark> |
I created a google maps account and in “my maps”, then created a new map and imported the KML file. I made the map public to embed the map!
view in large map
However, if you are more interested in the walk, then check out this entry.
I created a google maps account and in “my maps”, then created a new map and imported the KML file. I made the map public to embed the map!
view in large map






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