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EveryTrail trips as Google Earth Tours

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Today Google is launching a great new feature in Google Earth: Google Earth Tours. With the new Touring feature, content can be viewed as one-click slide show experience. EveryTrail content is now available as Tours in Google Earth. Read the press release is here.

Some featured EveryTrail Tours are below. Just click the links to download these trips into Google Earth.

Tips:
* First download the latest version of Google Earth here
* When Google Earth opens, click on “Start Here” and then on “Play Tour”
* Make sure “Terrain” is enabled: check the Terrain box at the bottom of the Layer section in the Google Earth sidebar

Half Dome Hike, California
half dome google earth

Bintall Trek, Switzerland
The Alps - Google Earth

Alaka’i Swamp Trail, Hawaii
Hawaii Google Earth

Sailing, Southern France
Southern France  Google Earth

Cape Pillar Trek, Australia
Australia Cape Pillar Google Earth

Tierra del Fuego Trek, Argentina
tierra del fuego google earth

After you downloaded one of the above files, start your Tour by clicking on “Start Here” placemark, and then clicking on “Play Tour”. Enjoy!

EveryTrail Now a Layer in Google Earth!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

We have some great news to share today:

Starting today EveryTrail trips will be available as a Layer in Google Earth. This means that your EveryTrail trips will automatically appear in Google Earth, so you and tens of millions of Google Earth users can view your trips in 3D!

Watch the video below to get an impression of what this looks like.

Screen shot of the classic Half Dome Hike in Google Earth:

EveryTrail - GPS Trip Sharing in Google Earth

You can help us make this layer great by adding descriptions to your trips and photos so that other users can enjoy your trips even more.

Upload GPS data into Google Earth

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

We wrote about displaying GPS data in Google Earth before, and because it is a favorite feature of EveryTrail users, we wanted to give it some more attention today.

GPS track of Sailing trip from Florida to the Bahamas, in Google Earth

First of all, there is some confusion about the difference between Google Maps and Google Earth. (more…)