GPS maps or Google earth

[HR]

I have a series of GPS coordimates from an airborne GPS receiver and I am trying to draw the trajectory of the aircraft on a map.

I can make a bmp/jpg file from any mapping software (e.g. google earth etc.) for the area of interest, import it into a graph in CVI, get the scale, and plot the trajectory that way but this approach gets rather tedious if you have many trajectories and many maps (see for example: http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=180&message.id=16261&query.id=122031#M16261).

Is there a simpler/faster/more general way to plot a series of gps coordinares on a map? 

Related question: is it posssible to control google earth from CVI?

thanks in advance

HR

[Doiron]

Hello HR,

To your first question: no.

To answer your second questions: yes, here is a link to the Google Earth COM API:

http://earth.google.com/comapi/

[jrbecker]

Outside of CVI, you can try this site: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/.

It will accept gps coordinates and plot them on several types of maps.

Or, from within CVI you can interface to a product called Goops (http://goopstechnologies.com/) to plot within Google Earth.

Message Edited by jrbecker on 01-13-2009 04:09 PM