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Plot route on map from GPS coordinates

Asked by mvidas in GIS & GPS Programming

Tags: gps, plot, map, coordinates, route

Hi everyone,

I'm going to be taking a trip (only around contiguous US) in a few weeks, and I bought an Delorme Earthmate GPS (model LT-20 if it matters). It came with Street Atlas USA 2005 for mapping software, and that is what I'll be using to navigate my way around if/when I get lost. I'll have the GPS device attached to my laptop in my car.

What I'd like to do is plot where I've been on a map, and to be able to save that map as an image file for others to see the route I've taken thus far via my website. I don't need it to connect the dots, so to speak, just simply to be able to place a dot on a map for each set of coordinates.

I know what I have to do to get the raw GPS coordinates from the device using VB, so that isn't an issue, but I'm wondering what suggestions any of you may have for a way to plot my route. After some searching, I found ArcView (http://www.esri.com/software/arcview/) but that does much more than I'm looking for, and theres no way I'm spending $1200 on this. Freeware/opensource would of course be preferred, but I am a realist and will probably have to spend a little to accomplish this.

Does anyone have any experience doing this? I haven't really looked into the Street Atlas 2005 enough to know if it could do it, so if someone could even confirm something like "Yes, SA2005 can easily do this, you just need to do _____" or "Yes it can, go here _____ for more details" that would be great. Otherwise I'm hoping someone can point me to a way to do what I need.

I don't need anything fancy here, in fact I'd prefer it to just be a relatively simple map of the US. I don't even need roads to be on the map, but I'd like state boundaries to at least be on it (though I can live with it otherwise).

Any ideas/suggestions are welcome! I've done much searching both on google and on here, so I'm hoping someone with experience can help or even just "I've suggested this for previous questions, and it seems to have worked for them"

Thanks!
Matt

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Plot route on map from GPS coordinates

Asked by mvidas in GIS & GPS Programming

Tags: gps, plot, map, coordinates, route

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