New trail resource

I am working with a web developer on a new trail guide website. yeah, I know there are more out there but we really think we can do it better than the others. Please register and have a look at www.offroadtrailguide.com

It's free! I have been posting up southern Nevada trails, but we'd like to see more from around the country. If you have questions or suggestions for added features, please send them to info@offroadtrailguide.com and we will see what we can do to add on. The site has only been live a short time and we hope to end up with something that everyone finds helpful.

Thanks!
Nick

 

Looks like a great start! I'm always a big fan of photos of things to see along the route and a brief description/history of the area. Please keep adding more!

 

Nice idea, will gather up some pics and guide for Northern Nevada trail we took a couple of months ago.. The Applegate-Lassen trail which starts east of Lovelock and across Blackrock desert and ended in Cedarville, CA

 

That would be awesome! If you have any issues getting the trail added just PM me or email me at: nick@excopllc.com and I can help you.

Thanks much!

 

And that is exactly what drove us to start building this site. I will be adding some more trails soon. Building the routes in Google Earth or Google Maps is the slow part of the process unless I have the track already in KML. After that, the rest is all cake.

 

Pics of trail landmarks and GPS coordinates along the routes would be excellent. That is something that can set you apart from other trail sites. Most are just trail descriptions with a pic or two.

With so many people shooting video nowadays with things like GoPros etc it would be awesome if you could link to Youtube vids of the trails as well.

 

I don't know how much extra work that'd be but thats an excellent idea !!

 

So on Airdog's recommendation, I bought the GPS kit app for my iPhone5. He was mentioning that you are able to create a track on Google Earth complete with waypoints, email it to yourself and open the file on the phone and plug it into the app- essentially using your phone as a GPS unit. I have fiddled with it on the phone, able to figure out how to use it to record a current track with waypoints, but don't know how to create one on Google Earth to export to my phone. Any tips, or websites (like for dummies…I'm a newb with GPS)?

 

I am pretty sure that I can get photos to show up at waypoints by adding the code to the KML file, but if you load the KML into your GPS, the pics would not be available unless you had internet access on the trail. We are adding links to each trail for associated pics and video files.

Video is one thing that I am just getting started on but you guys are right, having some video from the trail is an excellent resource. That is a perfect way to help re-enforce your trail rating and keep interest in an area.

 

It is fairly easy. You can export the KML file directly from Google Earth to your computer and depending on the GPS App, moving it to your GPS should be easy. I use GAIA and they have GAIA Cloud, which I download my KML files to. From there, the App automagicly takes that file and pushes it out to my iPad. (and iPhone)

What GPS App are you using and maybe I can help with more details?

 

The app is called "GPS kit". but my real question is how to create a track with waypoints (do you just plug in GPS coords and how you do that?) on Google Earth? I'm surprised Google Earth doesn't have a help function.