Google earth

Eventually the GPS units will have the Google Earth images built into them so your position will be outlined on a Satellite type image making it all a little more lifelike and useful. In the meantime to do that via Google Earth you would need Internet obviously.

Eventually the GPS units will have the Google Earth images built into them so your position will be outlined on a Satellite type image making it all a little more lifelike and useful. In the meantime to do that via Google Earth you would need Internet obviously.

just use worldwind, it has gps built in for free and is a lot like google earth and in many respects better. you can then have real time gps on the globe.

Theres a map supplied with Natmap Mosaic called "Landsat 7". Its a satellite image for the whole of Australia. I use it in Oziexplorer sometimes for a bit of fun and you can see what the surrounding terrain looks like from above. Its resolution is not as good as google earth but its enough to be useful.

Gday George

You can do it with google earth pro, which costs, and I think you can do it with gps trackmaker, but I haven't tested it out yet......you don't need the internet eihter, just increase the cache size in google earth and look at the area's you plan to go next and google earth will remember them.....

you can also put your gps tracks onto google earth when you get back, or use it to plan trips making routs and waypoints.....

I have nearly finished a word document explaining how to convert the files etc for a friend, I can make it available....

Cheers Andrew

Hello - having live connection to Google Earth would be cool but an expensive way to see where you are. Maybe a better option would be to use GoogleMV to capture images of your intended route for use with OziExplorer. This has been discussed before (here and elsewhere) e.g. thread detailing use here
GPSPassion GoogleMV Discussion)

As mentioned by others OziExplorer also has option to export tracks and waypoints to Google Earth so you can view you saved data at a later date easily.

Viewing your position via GPS on an air photo as a background is certainly not a GE invention/revolution - airphotos/sat images have been available (at a cost) for use with GPS mapping programs and GIS aplications for many years. Advanatge of GE is cost and complete coverage though resolution in some areas is a bit sad. Better than nothing though.

Cheers
Greg

Google Earth with Ozi Explorer work really good, amazing what you trip looks like in 3D especialy when climbing mountians and hills.

Regards Richard

George,

I used imported aerial images (some from google) on my PDA with Oziexplorer in moving map mode in the Gibson Desert earlier in the year. As there is few features there it had gimmick value only - Oh how cool is that!!!

I might as well have used a blank screen with only my plot line showing.

Perhaps in metropolitan areas, or areas with much detail it may be more useful.

Cheers
Alan

Thanks for the replies - I'm not totally 'across' the principles-s/w discussed but this is interesting.
What I was alluding to was having the ability to actually input ones lat & long into Google earth in real time - that is, whilst actually at the place of lat and long.

For example when I got home, I loaded all my bush camp sites into Google earth and found that there were some interesting places not 1/2 km from where I was camped - although I didn't know at the time because of the terrain and foliage etc. If I could have looked at my position in Google earth whilst I was actually still at that site, I could have had a walk to the place of interest just over the hill.

Thanks again

George