Monday, September 22, 2008

Integrating GPS and Google Earth

The application which I used is called VisualGPSce, and it runs without problem on my Asus P535, and it generates NMEA file. Free download is available here:

http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPSce/default.htm

This application is very simple and easy to use, and it shows various useful information as well, like your speed (very accurate as from my test), your altitude, and of course, your location plus a number of other readings. Try it our yourself!

Before you can use these data inside Google Earth, you will need to convert it to kml format, there is a free online tool for the conversion:

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=googleearth

And it's just that simple, the path can then be shown like below:



Pretty simple and interesting!