These are all of the Google Earth files I have created, one for each day.
If you haven't installed Google Earth on your machine go to http://earth.google.com and click the download button on the right hand side. Follow the instructions until Google Earth launches on your machine. Once that it up you can click on any of the links below to see the route for that particular day. They are listed in the order we rode them.
You may see a blue Bounding Box in the area where I rode. Here's how to get rid
of it.
- on the left side of the screen find the section called "places".
- There is an item under "temporary places" with the name of the destination city. That is the day's GPS data. Under that is a checkbox item called "tracks". Click the "+" next to "tracks" (don't remove the check mark)
- "ACTIVE.LOG" should show up. Click the "+" mark next to it.
- You'll see "Bounding Box" now. Click where the check mark is next to Bounding Box. The check mark should go away and the blue box on the screen should disappear.
You're now looking down from space at the ride. Isn't that amazing?
Go ahead and click on any of the photos and they will pop up on the screen.
You
can also rotate the view to get a more horizontal view of the terrain.
Try it, it's pretty amazing. On the upper right hand corner of the page
you'll see a circle. Move your mouse over it and you'll see a horizontal
bar at the top. Click and hold the far right-hand side of the bar and
the entire screen will rotate giving you a completely different
perspective. Try playing around with the views. It's really fun stuff.
When
you're done Google Earth will ask you if you want to save your
temporary spaces. If you say yes you'll start building a route of the
entire trip, complete with all the photos.