View Activity in Larger Google Map

OK here's a workaround to view your activity in a large GoogleMaps window:

• Go to view details on the activity you want to view
  
• Copy the the activity ID# (series of numbers at the end of the url)
  
• In the url below replace "activity_id" with the activity ID you just copied
  
  "maps.google.com/mapsactivity_id?full=true"
  

For example:
My activty in GC is (without quotes) "connect.garmin.com/.../9625310"
To view in Google Maps "maps.google.com/maps9625310?full=true"

When you launch the GoogleMap view it will take a while to load, especially for longer activities, as it is loading every trackpoint. I'm not sure how to avoid this, other than unchecking trackpoints after they load. This may be the reason that this has not been implemented yet in Garmin Connect.

Bit of a workaround, but should work for now.

April

thanks. yeah i already tried that but as the other poster found out,it's way too much data to be practical.

connect is already doing what i need--the maps it shows for each activity are generalized polylines. peeking at the js libs i see functions to get a polyline, encode it & add it to google maps.

any idea about the options for KML export? know of any docs?

I export all of my activities to Google Earth, been doing that for several years. All I need is the track. Since GC exports way too much information, I've been exporting then deleting all except the track within Google Earth. Sorry, I know of no way of getting that to work in a web browser the way MB did, other than what I already posted.

i think your stripped down KML files should work fine w/google maps.

i just need something to automagically parse the KML & someplace to store them (maybe google's "cloud") to use in google maps.