GPS Visualizer now supports Google Earth & airport codes

A couple weeks ago, I posted a message announcing that GPS Visualizer
could draw Google Maps from your GPS data. Now I'm happy to say that
you can also use it to generate KML files for display in Google Earth:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth

Pilots, take note that you can choose "absolute" as the altitude mode,
making your tracks properly appear in the air ABOVE the terrain.
(Hikers, bikers, drivers, etc., will want to choose "clamped to ground"
for altitude mode, lest your tracks end up partially underground where
you can't see them.)


And speaking of pilots, I've added a new database to the back end which
allows you to enter a waypoint as an airport code (3-letter IATA/FAA or
4-letter ICAO) and nothing else. There are two easy ways to take
advantage of this:

1) The "calculators" page has a Great-Circle-between-two-airports form:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/calculators.html

2) Use the waypoint mapper and specify simply "airport" as your header
row: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?for...ata=airport%0D

The address CONVERTER will also read airport codes (as long as you put
them in a field called "airport," of course).


If you haven't seen GPS Visualizer before, please drop by and check it
out at http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/. It's free, platform-independent,
and it supports many GPS data file formats, as well as mapping of
street addresses or raw coordinates. Output can be in the form of
SVGs, JPEGs, PNGs, Google Maps, or Google Earth KML.


Adam Schneider
Portland, OR
adamschneider.net


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