My GF & I are planning a road trip to the Okanagan this June to visit my dad, do some business promotion and of course, do some wheeling out there.
I have heard many a tale of the epic Whipsaw Trail between Manning Park and Princeton and wanted to see if there was any route information about the trail(s) since I have never personally been and would have to drag a friend out from Penticton in order to go with someone who's already been. Anyways, while looking for info on Whipsaw, my GF found this site called WikiLoc where people submit trail routes of various types (walking biking hiking 4x4ing etc) and other people can review and rate them. Just wondering if anyone here has used it or contributed to it since there doesn't seem to be much listed for Vancouver Island. I was thinking of dragging out some old GPS track logs from years past and maybe throw a few trail maps up there so others can benefit from them as well.
https://www.wikiloc.com
Anyone WikiLoc?
May 3, 2017 - 6:55pm
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Anyone WikiLoc?
found it great for little hikes. its just another tool in the digital chest, IMO.
checked out whipsaw trail after reading your post. holy shit that looks fun. tempting road trip.
Don't forget to bring some extra gas. ;-)
Hey if you have good trail maps in standard gps format you can upload them here as well. When you create a new form post just click the 'Upload map' button on the form. You can upload kml files (if you don't have kml just open whatever you have in Google Earth first and save). Once you do that it will show up in the Map section with links to your post. Add some photos to the post and they will show up on the map as well. I probably don't advertise this feature as much as I should - most people probably aren't even aware of it.
I'd love to contribute some trails
Unfortunately, I won't be able to do that until I find a way to convert my track logs from their Garmin .GPX format in to a .KML
I have Tried using DirectX and OpenGL to run Google Earth on this machine and for some reason is just won't run on this POS.
I'm running on a pretty bare bones backup machine and have been for over a year since my main machine bit the silicon dust.
I lost an awful lot of data on my HD too when the file table became irreparably corrupted while my machine was throwing it's fits.
All my GPS logs that were not already backed up on another device are gone too. Everything from late 2004-2011 is completely gone. I had thousands of kilometers of tracks and thousands of saved waypoints that I'm pretty choked about losing. Also there was a lot of irreplaceable software and loads of MP3's. PC crashes just suck.
You could try an online converter such as http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map_input?form=googleearth
Data loss definitely sucks though - I've been storing all of my tracks on the new online google earth lately at https://earth.google.com/web/