New Version of Google Earth Tracks Your Outdoor Adventures

Wednesday, June 16 2010

Google Earth

Google Earth has released a new version of its desktop application which one might think was made just for outdoor enthusiasts.

In this edition, users can recreate the path of a hike, trek, or bike ride using geo-data from a GPS device. Speed, elevation, and other stats are displayed as part of an animation inside Google Earth. Physical information such as heart rate can also be overlayed in a graph below the animation.

Google Earth product manager Peter Birch made an example video of his bike ride to work.

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0 # marioorlando 2010-06-16 10:37

Nice feature this one from Goggle Heart 5.2. It adds to the already excellent product.

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