Satellite views of your outdoor adventures
Interactive Trail Maps
Published September 9, 2007
Last update: September 11, 2007
These sample online maps were constructed using primarily the free GPS Visualizer and Google mapping services*. Once opened, the base map can be changed from the default Google hybrid option (street map + satellite image) to other options (including USGS topo maps) using the drop-down menu.
For those interested, the track and waypoint files (GPX format) that were used to build each map are zipped together and can be downloaded for use in other software applications.
| INTERACTIVE TRAIL MAPS | Optional:
download track & waypoint files |
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Bull Run Occoquan Trail | BRO.zip |
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Fairfax Cross County Trail | CCT.zip |
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Bike Ride 8-02 | Bike.zip |
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Italy Pass Trip (Elev profile) | Italy Pass Trip.zip |
* Other tools I use for capturing, editing and managing tracks and waypoints include a Garmin Geko 301 GPS receiver and various commercial and open source software tools such as:
Delorme
Topo USA
National Geographic Topo!
Google Earth (free
edition)
Easy GPS (free edition)
TopoFusion (free
edition)
GPS Babel (free)
GPS Track Maker (free
edition)
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