To me, Google Earth is the best program ever for a computer, I absolutely love it.

The one thing I wish they’d do though – and I recon a programer could fix in about 30 mins – is show the distance when you plot a route. It must be so simple, and surely everyone plotting a route will want to know distance. The only way to do it at the moment is retrace using measuring tool. For all it’s brilliance, why is something so simple and usefull omitted?

True, been looking for a sensible solution for this before so had another look. This seems to be a solution that does not take too much sorting but still not as elegant as a button in Google Earth.

Thanks for that. It does indeed work. I calculated the 5 days of our C2C, and it’s less than a mile different to what I thought on 4 out of 5, and just over a mile on the other.

It works, and is better than going over route with measuring tool. Like you said, better if it was in GE though.

5 day C2C? We did that last year camping, where did you stay first night? We planned very badly, drove from Chesterfield to Whitehaven at stupid o’clock then camped at Keswick, loooong day. Tested that site with Whinlatter section actually.

That’s this years Scottish C2C, which we’re doing next month.

Stonehaven – Braemar(66.7miles) – Kingussie(45.7miles) – Fort Augustus(36.88miles) – Cannich(38miles) – Dornie(37.7miles)

Mt Keen day 1, Cairn Gorm day 2.

All distances calculated using your system – thanks.

We did English last year St Bees – Ambleside – Kirkby Stephen – Ingleby Cross – Robin Hoods Bay.

Over 4 days obviously. We loved it(well all but one), so planned this years. Last years group of 12(9 riders), has grown to 20(16 riders)

Last years can be seen here on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/stevethebarbarian99

😉

http://www.mapmyrun.com does a similar job using google maps – even gives you a elevation profile for your route.

Shame – can’t import a route from Google Earth. Would’ve been good.

🙁

http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php

Works for me 🙂

I only find it any good for road routes, offroad its useless in most areas.

Check out bike hike – it will zoom in enough to do paths and bridleways..

For anything like that I export the Google Earth file to a KML and then import that into GPS Track Maker, which gives me distance. But not altitude profile so will have to give mapmyrun a look as suggested by paule.

Unfortunately can’t upload a path from Google Earth though.

I think Wheres the path gives an altitude profile now

and if you want an OS map overlay for googleearth look here

http://www.brock-family.org/gavin/google-earth/osmaps.html

Can’t upload from Google Earth into that either 🙁

You just need to convert a kml/kmz file into gpx to upload

I use http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/

OK thanks, I’ll try that later. Trackers system works fine for distance. I’m getting greedy now, and want elevation too.

🙂