How Do You Create Trip Profiles?

[Greg Mihalik]

Well now …

[Greg Mihalik]

Since moving from a PC to a Mac I’ve been unable to create trip profiles – for planning or for history.

In Mike M’s recent post  https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/training-thread-goals-updates-questions-etc/page/4/#post-3447591  he showed this –

1. How do you create and import a track to the google map shown above?
2. What was used to create the profile?

Can anyone (Mike) give a brief summary of the process. I’m very jealous.

[Kenneth Keating]

For Google Earth Pro it’s very easy.  Draw the route, right click on it, select “show elevation profile” and it pops up below the map.

[Greg Mihalik]

Well, free is way better than $400. Obviously I wasn’t keeping up.

GooglePro is now installed, and the learning curve begins.

Thank you.

[Matthew / BPL]

Caltopo does that too and snaps to most existing trails which makes drawing routes really easy. Free or cheap ($10/year allows you to save more maps and export maps larger than letter size.

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