Posted in Google Earth, TakItWithMe, Tracking, gps on Oct 11th, 2008
As more boaters take EarthNC out on their boats, we’ve noted an increasing interest in ‘live tracking’ of recreational boating trips for friends and family. EarthNC has been building a simple system to support real-time tracking based on Google Earth and various low-cost and free components. Read on to learn more about our [...]
Posted in Google Earth, Tracking, gps on Oct 11th, 2008
It’s not every day that you get the opportunity to ride a fast boat in capable hands, as we did recently during the Sarasota Poker Run. To share our good fortune, we wanted to live cast our position and webcam photos during the run and then create a nice multimedia map afterwords. [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Google Earth, Google Earth Marine Charts, gps, trips and routes on Dec 8th, 2007
Welcome to the EarthNC Trip and Route Tool User Guide
The Trip and Route Tool (TRT) lets you create trip and route plans in Google Earth and easily export them to GPX file format for use with stand-alone GPS devices. In the case of Garmin USB GPS units, you can send your trips and routes [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, EarthNC Plus Charts, gps on Aug 6th, 2007
Frank Taylor from Google Earth Blog just got back from using EarthNC Plus in conjunction with GooPs real-time GPS software for Google Earth while sailing in the US and British Virgin Islands. EarthNC Plus includes full coverage of the US Virgil Islands based on official NOAA ENC charts.
Quoting Frank, “The whole setup worked very well [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, TakItWithMe, Trips and Guides, gps on Jul 18th, 2007
While developing our new TakItWithMe Google My Maps to GPS service, we ran across a great Google My Map of the Trent Severn Waterway produced by TheWaterway.ca. The Trent Severn waterway links eastern Lake Ontario with Lake Huron via Georgian Bay. The route is 240 miles long, includes 44 locks (many of them [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, TakItWithMe, gps, trips and routes on Jul 16th, 2007
The EarthNC team is pleased to announce TakItWithMe™ Beta (www.takitwithme.com) a new service for uploading Google My Maps and Google Earth geo content to Garmin and other handheld devices. Anyone familiar with using Google Maps or Google Earth can transfer online map content including points, routes, geo search results, and Google Earth files to [...]