Upload a Google Earth Track to View Ranger
How to view the route on your iPhone (or other smart phone)
Although you tin of course navigate to the tassietrails.org webpage at any time on your iPhone and cheque the map, there is a big advantage to be had in direct downloading the route onto your phone and using the phone's inbuilt GPS and the Google Earth App (or windows / droid equivalent) and so you can see not only the trail map, simply of course exactly where you are (or more importantly aren't) on that map.
This can be a real time saver if you call back you might have taken a wrong turn.
This is actually pretty easy, merely Google Earth does need you lot to have mobile coverage to work. So if you're not going to take mobile coverage (remember West Coast or the Blue Tiers) you lot will need to look into other software like GaiaGPS (my personal favourite) or ViewRanger which can utilize pre-loaded maps. If y'all use these Apps then you will want to downlaod the GPX file, not the KML file.
Also please realise that if it Google Earth is downloading the imagery out in the field and then it is using your phone's data bandwidth which could cost lots of coin, especially if you lot're on an overseas SIM carte du jour (GaiaGPS and probably other apps ger around this by allowing y'all to download the map area before you lot caput off from your wifi).
That's the disclaimers, here'south how y'all do it.
Method 1: Download straight using your iPhone
Firstly, if a trail has a downloadable Google Earth kml (don't worry virtually the name, this is just what the file format for recording tracks in Google Earth is called) and then y'all will notice it under the "Downloads" tab on the routes item folio.
Perhaps the easiest mode to download a kml onto your iPhone is to navigate to the tassietrails.org trail notes page on your iPhone directly (using Safari) and and then download the paradigm and open it in a new page.
If this works you should see a screen something like this:
Yous tin and then just click on "Open in Google Earth" button in the top right of the screen and voila you will accept the kml track displayed on google earth on your phone. Yous can and then but click on the GPS button on the bottom left of the screen and the GPS will show you exactly where you are on (or off) that rail.
The simply downside I've found to this approach is that if the phone clear'south its enshroud, then you can lose this kml and have to get back to the site and load it over again. Not usually a problem, but merely making you aware of information technology.
Method two: Download onto your Computer
This approach allows yous to download the kml file (or files if you're planning on hit a few different trails) and email them to yourself. Once yous have emailed the files to yourself, you lot can then only open these attachments in Google World or some other App on your Smart Phone.
UPDATE Note: An easier mode of doing all this (if y'all use a cloud drive like Dropbox) is to just save the file into Dropbox (or your file of choice) and you tin and then just open it directly on your telephone from the dropbox file.
Merely if you desire to exercise the email approach, hither's the steps:
Get to the downloads tab on the trail notes and download the kml or gpx file. I of two things will happen ...
- If it works properly (which it should in most modern browsers) and then it will just download the kml file onto your hard-drive which is what you desire; or
- In some browsers it may simply open up a large text file which can be rather daunting. If it does this y'all tin either try and save this file onto your computer (using Relieve as...), but make certain that you salve it as a .kml or .gpx file, or it might be easier to but shut that text file, right-click on the KML push button and select the "Save link as ..." option which you tin select and which will download the file onto your calculator.
That was the difficult flake. At present all you lot need to practise is detect that file on your computer (or files if yous want to download a few of them) so select them and email them to yourself.
Once these accept come through onto your iPhone equally attachments to your e-mail (meet bluetierdescent.kml below) ...
Y'all tin can only click on this attachment to open it.
Now if you're lucky it volition just open directly in Google Earth, all the same on my phone I get something like this ...
Don't worry, but click on the arrow in a box icon in the peak right (Send to) and you lot should then be given the selection to open it in Google Earth ...
This method may seem similar a bit more work, just it does have an advantage if you want a few different routes on your phone that they're easier to find in your email, peculiarly if you just file them in a single folder.
At that place may exist better ways of doing this, but these work for me. Happy to hear suggestions on how to ameliorate these notes.
Source: https://www.tassietrails.org/trip-planning/download-kml-routes-to-iphone
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