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Author Exporting Google route to handheld GPS
Barclay

2007-12-19, 4:33 am

I've been searhching but don't see how to do this. I have been given
some Google routes--that is, google maps showing a route from one
point to another. I want to somehow export this and load it onto a
handheld (actually bike mounted GPS) so that I can follow the route.
The GPS is a Delorme PN-20 but I think once I get the Google data in a
garmin-like standard format I can get it on the PN-20. Do I somehow
save the Google route as KML and then conver to GPX? Or am I totally
off base here?

Thanks!
renum

2007-12-19, 7:33 am

Barclay wrote:
> I've been searhching but don't see how to do this. I have been given
> some Google routes--that is, google maps showing a route from one
> point to another. I want to somehow export this and load it onto a
> handheld (actually bike mounted GPS) so that I can follow the route.
> The GPS is a Delorme PN-20 but I think once I get the Google data in a
> garmin-like standard format I can get it on the PN-20. Do I somehow
> save the Google route as KML and then conver to GPX? Or am I totally
> off base here?



Try it, GpsBabel http://www.gpsbabel.org/ will do the conversion for
you. You might also want to get GpsBabelGUI if you prefer working with a
UI rather than the command line.
Peter

2007-12-20, 4:33 am

Barclay wrote:
> I've been searhching but don't see how to do this. I have been given
> some Google routes--that is, google maps showing a route from one
> point to another. I want to somehow export this and load it onto a
> handheld (actually bike mounted GPS) so that I can follow the route.
> The GPS is a Delorme PN-20 but I think once I get the Google data in a
> garmin-like standard format I can get it on the PN-20. Do I somehow
> save the Google route as KML and then conver to GPX? Or am I totally
> off base here?
>
> Thanks!

There's a utility called "Tyre" from http://www.tyre.tk/ that works with
TT, might work with others
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