It was a lovely sunny evening out at Wilverley yesterday and this week I managed to arrive before everyone had set off. We completed a nice loop with much of the time spent in the shade of the trees. We weren’t the only ones out in the sunshine though: just before returning the car park we stumbled across a couple who were – how shall I put it? – enjoying each other’s company without the need for much in the way of clothing. Tip: if you don’t want the moment to be disturbed by a group of passing runners, I’d suggest avoiding the vicinity of a New Forest car park on a Tuesday night!
PS Nice new feature of the XML Google Maps Plugin: if you click on the red icon with the magnifying glass on the left edge of the map then it will open a copy of the map that fills the browser frame.
Wilverley GPX
Awesome plugin. Google Maps is far better image quality than Google Earth which I use with my Polar RS800CX w/GPS. I really need to find a way to load my PGX file into Google Maps.. Maybe you know a way to do that, David ?
Hmm, I found a way, through kmz files ….
I’m surprised you see a difference in quality between Google Earth and Google Maps but the quality certainly does vary from location to location. The Microsoft imagery (now at http://www.bing.com/maps/) used to have higher resolution images near us but they were leapfrogged by Google about a year ago. GPS Visualizer handles most of my conversion needs. You might also one to take a look at using SportTracks on the desktop.
Thanks for advices, I’ll look into it.