View Tracks on gMaps (or gEarth)

[John W SBA]

I've been playing around with Tracks in Avare, and wanted to share the
simple way I load them into gMaps for exploration back on the ground.
The same basic method works for gEarth and has more features, but gMaps
is good enough for me. I prefer managing and transferring files offline
to my PC directly, so in Avare I set Preferences > Flight Tracking >
Auto Track Post (None). In flight I turn on Tracks in Avare, and it
auto-closes the Track in a time-stamped file when I exit Avare.

When there's a track I'd like to re-visit I turn on Bluetooth on the
Android and PC. I use a File Manager app to transfer the Track(s) of
interest to the PC. On my Android S4 phone the files are in "Internal
Storage" > com.ds.avare > Tracks and I send them to the Downloads folder
on my PC.

Then I open Firefox on the PC and use my bookmark for the GPS Visualizer
website:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

In the Get Started box I click the Browse... button and select the track
file from my Downloads folder. Note that the website's "output format"
has already defaulted to gMaps. I click Map it, and a gMaps box opens
on the website with my track (screencap attached).

Sometimes I also click the Download link, so I can then load that file
into Firefox to explore the track in a full-screen window rather than
the website's inset box. It can also be handy to have that file stored
on my PC in case it's of interest later.

[Doug Du Plessis]

My process is to post the tracks file to my email address. I can send in real time or when I'm connected to Wi-Fi later. From there I simply open the email attachment which defaults to gEarth on my device or PC. When I'm done reviewing, I save the attachment to my flight docs folder and name it according by to the flight with a date stamp. I love having this capability.

Doug

[John Rodkey]

I also use the mail feature, and CC my passenger so they can replay the flight.

[Zubair Khan]

Next release will have tracks turned on automatically when you start the app (an option) so you will not have to remember turning them on before flight. Thanks

Z

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[John Rodkey]

An excellent addition!  Thanks, development team!!

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Zubair Khan <cf...@protonmail.com> wrote:

Next release will have tracks turned on automatically when you start the app (an option) so you will not have to remember turning them on before flight. Thanks

Z

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I also use the mail feature, and CC my passenger so they can replay the flight.

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