Google Earth Tours - GTrek II User Manual

value is counted. ie if there was 10,000 records and the speed was measured at 10mph 1,000
times then the 10mph bar would represent 10% of the total.

5.7 Google Earth Tours

When the Google Earth® Tour
requesting the "smoothing value". The default value for Google Earth is 1 but
you may wish to increase this value. It controls the granularity of the data. A
higher value will result in less data, a lower value will result in more data with
better resolution. However when exporting data to Google Earth Tour with a
smoothing value of 1 will require more computer memory, In fact it can take
large amount of computer memory
Select Track on ground for earth based routes where altitude data is
ignored or Track not on ground for airborne tracks. For the airborne option an
altitude correction can be entered if required.
It has been noticed that some Google Earth images are not as accurately placed as one may expect.
If you experience this it can be corrected here. Measure the error in Google Earth with the Measure
tool, export your data again but this time with the corrections. The alterations are measured in meters,
a positive correction will move the trace in a northerly or westerly direction.
The technology being used here is based on web browser
technology provided by Internet Explorer and the data has
to be loaded into it, this can take from a few seconds to a
few tens of seconds and a progress bar is provided. If this
process it protracted then an error box such as this one
may be displayed, if you click No then the process will
continue to load the requested data. This is not an error,
it's just taking a long time.
The page will open and attempt to load the Google
Earth application, a connection to the internet is required for this. On the first application if the
necessary Google Plug-in is not already loaded you will be presented with an option to download and
install the required extensions click accept. Once loaded it will be necessary to close the page and re-
enter again.
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