fredevad
Lead Service Attendant
I've been playing with a GPS application on my cell phone that creates a geo-track on where you've been (as long as the application is running) and creates waypoints with photos. The application can email the GPS track and waypoints information in a format that is importable into the Google Earth application ("kmz", binary data or "gpx", XML data). From there I can create a "tour" where one can "fly" through the geo-track, giving one the feeling of actually traveling the route.
So far, I've used it to create test geo-tracks for drives to and from work and it seems to work quite well (as long as I don't pause it during the trip, which creates additional segments).
So I thought, why not use it to geo-track train travel? I'm going to create a track from MKE to CHI when I travel for National Train Day, creating picture waypoints of features of the route. It would be pretty cool to "fly" along above the rails to follow the route.
I'm all about "Low Cost" or "Gotta know how to use your free stuff", so everything here (except the phone and window mount) are free or low cost solutions. I'll be happy to divulge the technical details if anyone wants to know - I just didn't want to start this thread with shameless product plugs.
Would anyone be interested in the MKE-CHI geo-track file? I'll be happy to host and post a link to it when it's ready (hopefully within a week after NTD, but no promises).
Happy travels,
So far, I've used it to create test geo-tracks for drives to and from work and it seems to work quite well (as long as I don't pause it during the trip, which creates additional segments).
So I thought, why not use it to geo-track train travel? I'm going to create a track from MKE to CHI when I travel for National Train Day, creating picture waypoints of features of the route. It would be pretty cool to "fly" along above the rails to follow the route.
I'm all about "Low Cost" or "Gotta know how to use your free stuff", so everything here (except the phone and window mount) are free or low cost solutions. I'll be happy to divulge the technical details if anyone wants to know - I just didn't want to start this thread with shameless product plugs.
Would anyone be interested in the MKE-CHI geo-track file? I'll be happy to host and post a link to it when it's ready (hopefully within a week after NTD, but no promises).
Happy travels,