Assistance plotting GPX data on offline aerial imagery
Hi,
I am trying to solve a seemingly simple problem, but am having an unreasonable amount of trouble with it, and I am hoping for your assistance.
I am riding an offroad rally in North Africa and would love to be able to plot each days route (from a GPX file) on high resolution sattelite/aerial images on my Windows laptop, but I will not have any internet access. I would love to use Google/Bing imagery, but would also be happy to use Landsat data instead.
So a few questions:
- What Windows application is suitable for this? Given that it must be able to use offline imagery data.
- Are there any recommended sources of data other than Landsat that I should be looking at? Area of interest is Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal, and a very large area (probably equivalent to 50% of Morocco to give an idea of scale).
I am also having trouble with the mechanics of getting the imagery data converted/formatted/georeferenced correctly to be displayed in the various viewer programs I've tried. Any suggestions here?
I understand these may be some basic questions, so links to guides/FAQs/tutorials are valued too.
Thanks
Ben
Just a couple of bonus bits of info:
- No need for live GPS tracking. An active GPS will never be connected, data will just come from a GPX file.
- I understand that I will have to download a huge amount of data beforehand.
- The simpler and easier the better. I just want to get an idea of the terrain along the next day's route.
- Whilst free is good, I'd happily pay an amount ($20-50) for programs/aerial data.
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