One thing I always want to do is plan a trip before I go out on it if there’s some danger of getting lost. If I’m going to visit a couple of islands with a boat, trek out into the wild Sierra Madre or even visit a town that has no road data available there’s just no way to get the Navigating Part of the GPS device to function the way I want it to.
So how can one plan a route to take when there’s no concrete or asphalt pathways (and no navigational map data available either)?
The guys over at GPSies (pronounced Gypsies & meaning vegabond) have made available a conversion utility that will convert between 21 different formats! Now you can plan your route in Google Earth, export it as a KML and then convert the KML to whatever format your device supports! That means that this will be compatible with the different varieties of Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, Trimble and lots of other brands. Not to mention that with Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) you’ll have access to some of the best satellite imagery of the world to make your route.
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