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Spent a fair few days working on various ways to get my android phone as a external GPS receiver for my netbook running memory maps.
However i found a much easier way of doing it and saves having the netbook running whilst out laning.
Firstly you'll ' Google My Tracks ' on your android phone, it's free from the market place, alternatively you can download it here:
My Tracks for Android
Once installed it's pretty straight forward in setting up on your phone and works with 2.1 and above.
You can record your ' track ' as you drive around, and also set waypoint markers wherever you wish on your journey.
Once you have finished your journey, save the ' track ' then you must export the track ( i use .kml ) for it to work properly ( i found this out after it kept crashing when using the ' save to SD card ' option ).
Plug your phone into your PC or netbook ( set it up for Disk Drive ) and search for the .kml file, once you've found it open up a web browser ( internet is required at this point, but don't despair if you haven't got it just skip this step ) and open up this web page:
GPS Visualizer: Web interface to GPSBabel
Enter the details for the .kml file ( google maps (Track/Waypoints ) and it's location and select Memory Mapps ( T/W/ ) as the output.
Click convert and download the file, then open with mem maps.
If you haven't got internet you can download GPSBabel ( the same program, just on your pc and not online ) from here :
GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs
and do it offline.
You can obviously add/remove waypoints etc using mem maps once the file is uploaded.
Cheers
However i found a much easier way of doing it and saves having the netbook running whilst out laning.
Firstly you'll ' Google My Tracks ' on your android phone, it's free from the market place, alternatively you can download it here:
My Tracks for Android
Once installed it's pretty straight forward in setting up on your phone and works with 2.1 and above.
You can record your ' track ' as you drive around, and also set waypoint markers wherever you wish on your journey.
Once you have finished your journey, save the ' track ' then you must export the track ( i use .kml ) for it to work properly ( i found this out after it kept crashing when using the ' save to SD card ' option ).
Plug your phone into your PC or netbook ( set it up for Disk Drive ) and search for the .kml file, once you've found it open up a web browser ( internet is required at this point, but don't despair if you haven't got it just skip this step ) and open up this web page:
GPS Visualizer: Web interface to GPSBabel
Enter the details for the .kml file ( google maps (Track/Waypoints ) and it's location and select Memory Mapps ( T/W/ ) as the output.
Click convert and download the file, then open with mem maps.
If you haven't got internet you can download GPSBabel ( the same program, just on your pc and not online ) from here :
GPSBabel: convert, upload, download data from GPS and Map programs
and do it offline.
You can obviously add/remove waypoints etc using mem maps once the file is uploaded.
Cheers
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