Sadiqi GPS tracks is experimental and very much a work in progress.
Hopefully, this will allow blog readers to download and view Sadiqi's tracks - KML files in Google Earth (GE).
Google Earth must be installed on your computer to view the tracks. Warning: This may be data intensive.
- Select a link below. A new window should open. This should ask you to view or download the file. To make life easier select View.
- In Windows, another dialog window may open prompting to Open or Save - select Open.
- This should initiate Google Earth and display the track.
- A file with a name Sadiqi Tracks## will be created under Temporary Places in the sidebar. The ## is the track number.
- On closing GE you may be prompted to save the file or discard - your choice.
| # | Link | Distance (Nm) | Days |
| 01 | Australia - Fremantle to Carnarvon | 487 | 4.2 |
| 02 | Australia - Carnarvon to Cocos (Keeling) | 1,278 | 11.3 |
| 03 | Cocos (Keeling) to Sumatra, Bojo | 727 | 8.2 |
| 05 | Sumatra to Thailand, Phuket | 252 | 2.2 |
| 10 | Thailand, Phuket to Sri Lanka, Galle | 1,083 | 11.9 |
| 11 | Sri Lanka, Galle to Maldives, Gan | 630 | 11.0 |
| 12 | Maldives to Madagascar | 1,749 | 22.4 |
| 14 | Madagascar to Mozambique | 703 | 7.5 |
| 16 | Mozambique to South Africa, Richards Bay | 556 | 8.9 |
| 18 | South Africa - Richards Bay to Hout Bay | 956 | 18.9 |
| 20 | South Africa, Cape Town to Namibia | 730 | 5.1 |
| 21 | Namibia to St Helena | 1,233 | 10.8 |
| 24 | St Helena to Brazil | 1,842 | 16.8 |
| 25 | Brazil to Tobago | 1,964 | 13.1 |
How these tracks were created and edited.
The tracks were generated by the Standard Horizon CP500 Chartplotter using C-Map charts.The tracks were then imported into C-Map PC Planner software and converted to csv format.
The files were edited in MS Excel limiting the track points to approximately every six hours (0600, 1200, 1800 and 2359). The date and time
had to be manipulated into the correct format. Note that times may not be correct due to changing time zones.
Note: the chartplotter and instruments were not on all the time to conserve battery power.
I used GPSBabel to convert the csv file into Google Earth KML file.
http://www.gpsbabel.org/
The files were then uploaded and shared with the Google community.
My thanks to Mark in Perth for his help in getting the files into the Google community and sharing.
