Hi all, ive sort of asked this question before however ive been out of action for a while and cant seem to find the old threed so ill ask again (sorry to do this to you guys) I have a track saved on my garmin foretrex 201 and ive lost the manual. The questions are as follows;
1. How do i save the track from my GPS to my PC, (i have tried) also i have a USB to 9 port serial conection which conects my GPS to my pc and i loaded the softwear before conecting the GPS.
2.When i have my GPS conected to my pc and click on my computer why cant i see this device conected (like i would see my flash drive conected).
3. If and when "we" resolve this problem how could i overlay the saved info onto google earth like ive seen in these forums.
Any advice would be a great help king regards Steve O

Thanks heaps... the info was all good...took me a little while to work it out however its working now... used GPS visualizer to plact the track on the map is there any other map sites that are better for example i like to place the info onto a topo map

Sorry for being so gumby with this stuff ...but how do i save it as gpx ...ive save it by using easy gps ...however it doesent look as good as your stuff that you have posted the tracks are all dead stright and stuff... steve o

Mineral 1, thanks for replying i have been trying to follow your instructions however im a little computer sad... forgive me... what is rspeed is this a gps site...because i have alredy saved the track and using gps visulizer had the track desplaid on google maps... but the tracks look fake as they are stright and clunky no like the posts that ive seen in the phots section regards Steve O

steve o said...

Mineral 1, thanks for replying i have been trying to follow your instructions however im a little computer sad... forgive me... what is rspeed is this a gps site...because i have alredy saved the track and using gps visulizer had the track desplaid on google maps... but the tracks look fake as they are stright and clunky no like the posts that ive seen in the phots section regards Steve O

Sorry Steve o, thought you had RSpeed. As decrepit indicated you can go the way he indicated.
Or better still get the RSpeed program, you wont regret it
With your Google earth program,(you can load this for free from the web) upgrade to Google earth plus (free on same web) if you haven't already done this yet.
The open Google earth, as I indicated, top left tab "file" then as I indicated, go from there.

Yep nebs is right the recording interval needs to be setup for 2 sec.
Goto Main Menu
Then Tracks
Then Record Interval
Here you could use Distance Time or Auto. Use Time
Adjust to 2

Ensure Recording is turned on before heading out and reset max speed before session.

Your Easy GPS program is able to save the track as a .gpx file, though I can't remember ofhand how to.