Downloading and archiving data...

after each expedition - including photographic images, GPS waypoints and tracks, lectures and recaps presented on board - is a tedious but necessary task, demanding that one be well organized both during travel and at your home office. But it’s fun to play with some of the data, where shown below is the track we hiked on the Shackleton Walk on South Georgia, between Fortuna Bay and Stromness (see earlier blog post).

Track was continuously acquired by my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx, then downloaded to PC using Garmin Basecamp software and USB cable tether, then the file exported as a .GPX file and imported into Google Earth Pro for final conversion to .KML format, and v…

Track was continuously acquired by my Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx, then downloaded to PC using Garmin Basecamp software and USB cable tether, then the file exported as a .GPX file and imported into Google Earth Pro for final conversion to .KML format, and voila!