Trimble Outdoors Trips layer in Google Earth

Premium GPS-based information from Trimble Outdoors and leading national publications—BACKPACKER, Bicycling and Mountain Bike magazines—is now available as a Google Earth Featured Content Layer.

This is the first multimedia GPS content layer for outdoor adventure seekers that allows Google Earth users to access a wide variety of data on fitness and outdoor adventures, including routes, GPS tracks, points of interest, trailhead directions, trail descriptions, photos, video and audio clips.

A Google Earth user can view a 3D trip of running, bicycling or hiking destination and gain a unique perspective with the addition of audio, video, photos and detailed editorial. For example, hikers can experience the Pacific Trail online by viewing hundreds of photos, audio clips and videos from BACKPACKER Magazine through Google Earth. Whether they plan to hike a few miles or a few thousand miles, they can download helpful information and virtually fly through several different regions from Mexico to Canada, through California, Oregon and Washington; guided by expert content along the way.

Google Earth users can export the layer data to any WAP-capable mobile phone, experience it via a GPS-enabled mobile phone with Trimble Outdoors' fitness and outdoor recreational applications, or download to a stand-alone GPS device.

To learn more about Google Earth and get a free download of the Google Earth software, visit the Google Earth site (PC, Mac and Linux versions are available).

How to view it

• Start Google Earth
• Go to "Layers" in the Sidebar on the left
• Expand the "Gallery" folder under "Primary Database"
• Click the "Trimble Outdoors Trips" checkbox
• In the main window, pan and zoom into the area of interest to you until you see red lines and dots indicating Trimble Outdoors trips
• Continue to zoom in until you see little "Green Hikers":
  
  Depending on the zoom level and context, clicking a Green Hiker will open a popup window with detailed information about a trip or its element, for example a photo as shown above.