![]() ![]() And don’t bother copying the polygon name into the “Label” box in Step 3, since the process to create a polygon shapefile won’t save the polygon name. The procedure is essentially the same for polygons, but in Step 2 GPS TrackMaker converts the polygon perimeters into tracks when it saves them as GPX files. That’s it for points and paths from Google Earth. The “Label” data will be preserved, so that the shapes will have some ID associated with them. Step 5: Use EGPS2shp (described in a previous post) to convert the point and track data into separate point and line shapefiles (in geographic WGS84 coordinates). Step 4: Save the point and line data in EasyGPS as a GPX file. With only a few tracks, this may be practical, but with a lot of tracks, you may find this more trouble than it’s worth. If you want to keep that track name associated with the line when you create a shapefile, you will have to copy the text in the “Name” box into the “Label” box. Although the tracks don’t have their names on-screen, they still have their names associated with them selecting them, right-clicking and choosing “Edit Track” will show that: The waypoints are marked on the screen with their original KML ID. ![]() Step 3: Open the point and line GPX file in EasyGPS: I’ll now delete the polygons, and save the point and line data as a GPX file in GPS TrackMaker. The name labels in GPS TrackMaker are those assigned to those shapes in Google Earth. Here’s the same KML file opened up in GPS TrackMaker (I haven’t deleted the polygons yet): Here’s an image of a simple KML file in Google Earth, with two points, lines, and polygons: Step 2: Convert the KML file into GPX using GPS TrackMaker. Step 1: If the KML files consists of points, lines and polygons, it will be helpful if you can save the points and lines in their own KML file, then do the same for the polygons by themselves. But I’ve come up with a mildly painful, multi-step hack that will allow you to convert the point, path and polygon shapes to shapefile format, and which allows you to keep at least the object name associated with points and paths. I haven’t really found a good way to transform KML files to shapefile format, and certainly not one that preserves most of the attribute information or data associated with the shapes in the KML file. The download file has a size of 13.6MB.ĮxpertGPS has not been rated by our users yet.Note: See this series of posts for info on converting shapefiles to KML format. ![]() ĮxpertGPS runs on the following operating systems: Windows. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of ExpertGPS is 5.95.0.0, released on. It was checked for updates 31 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month. OverviewĮxpertGPS is a Commercial software in the category Home & Hobby developed by TopoGrafix. No other software makes it this easy to add your own data to maps and aerial photos. Whether you're discovering a new trail or scouting a 400 acre parcel, ExpertGPS gives you the maps and tools you need to get the job done. Disconnect your laptop and head out on a trip, and all of your data is available. ExpertGPS automatically downloads USGS topo maps and aerial photos for any location in the United States.ĮxpertGPS downloads aerial photos and topo maps for any location in the US, saving the maps to your hard drive. With ExpertGPS, you'll be able to calculate acreage, measure distance, elevation and grade. You can reproject data in any geographic format (lat-lon, UTM, US State Plane) and change datums instantly. You'll be able to convert any GPS, GIS, or CAD data to or from GPX, Google Earth KML or KMZ, Excel CSV or TXT, SHP shapefiles, or AutoCAD DXF drawings in two clicks. View your GPS tracklog over an aerial photo to see exactly where you went.ĮxpertGPS handles all your mapping and data-conversion jobs. Plan your next outdoor adventure over scanned USGS topo maps and send a route directly to your GPS receiver to guide you in the field. View GPS waypoints and tracklogs from any handheld GPS receiver over aerial photos and US topographic maps. ExpertGPS is the ultimate GPS map software for planning outdoor adventures. ![]()
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