Test that URL by entering it into your Web browser if the file downloads, your URL is correct. Google Sites and Google Docs also provide ways to host a KML/KMZ file.įigure out the HTTP URL of the KML or KMZ file that you want to display in Google Maps. For example, I uploaded a bunch of KML and KMZ files to a directory on my Web site. Next, you need a Web site to which you can upload the KML/KMZ file.This step can be a bit tricky, so let’s pretend you’ve already accomplished it and I’ll come back to this matter later. The first step is to obtain the KML/KMZ file containing the waypoint or track that you recorded while you were out doing whatever you were doing: driving, hiking, standing in some cool place.You, too, can export a waypoint or a track from your GPS tracking device, hand it to Google Maps, and provide your friends (or the whole world) with a link they can click to see that information in Google Maps. But it can now do so, and that’s why the earlier link in this article works. I don’t know when Google Maps acquired the capability to display a KML/KMZ file. But although Google Earth could display a GPS track from a KML file, Google Maps couldn’t. Is a lot more work than just clicking a link and instantly seeing the map in your Web browser. And, of course, downloading a file and opening it with Google Earth on your own machine But Google Earth, while very cool in its own way, didn’t contain a topo map view. They could then open that KML file on their own machine, using Google Earth, and thus examine Google Earth’s display of the track, projected onto satellite imagery of the world. It’s part of the great Google Maps cartographic overview of theĪn alternative, in the old days, was to give someone a KML file (or a KMZ file it’s the same thing as a KML except that it’s compressed) containing the track. A Google Maps map is dynamic and interactive. That’s okay, but you can’t scroll or zoom a screenshot what you see is all you see. I discovered immediately that showing such a record to other people was not at all easy! I had to resort to mapping my tracks on my own computer and then posting a screenshot. I was a late adopter, as usual, but as soon as I had a GPS tracker, I wanted to use it to make a record of the various places I like to go dirt biking.
But it does to me, because I remember when this feature of Google Maps didn’t exist. Perhaps this doesn’t seem miraculous to you. It’s a Google Map, as provided by Google - but the path I followed as I was dirt biking is projected onto it. You can change to Satellite view, to see the area photographed from above.
You can zoom out, to get a better sense of what part of the world all this happened in. You can slide the map around, to view more of the route I took.
#REPLACE GOOGLE MYTRACKS FULL#
For the full effect, though, you should look, not at a screenshot of the map, but at the map itself to do so, please click this link to view my route as portrayed by Google Maps (don’t forget to come back here afterwards!). Instead of describing where it was and telling you how the road climbed in switchbacks from the Old Ridge Route to a mountain ridge above the Mojave high desert and parallel to the San Andreas fault, I’ll show you: the start of my route looks like this. I went on a little dirt bike ride the other day (that’s “dirt bike” with an internal combustion engine, not a pedaled mountain bike).
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