Over the last few weeks, I’ve found myself\u00a0making quite a few\u00a0conversions of maps between different formats, for different uses (mostly cycling-related). \u00a0The things I’ve found might, or might not, be useful to others… so I’m writing them down anyway!<\/p>\n
Firstly, I wanted to see what the profile of a route was like. I had a GPX file for the route and used the excellent GPS Visualizer<\/a> site to create an elevation profile. \u00a0And then quickly decided it had far too many bumps!<\/p>\n Next up, one of my fellow riders wanted to be able to view the route in Google Maps (not Google Earth). \u00a0This wasn’t quite as straightforward but, again GPS Visualizer comes to the rescue. Using that site, it’s possible to convert to a KML file that Google Maps can work with<\/a>. \u00a0Unfortunately, the “new” Google Maps doesn’t have an import option so you need to switch back to the “classic” Google Maps<\/a>\u00a0(it might be enough to use this version of the URI:\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?output=classic<\/a>), after which you can use the Google Maps Engine to create a map (like this one<\/a>, which was stage\u00a01 of my recent London to Paris ride):<\/p>\n