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News
09 December 2009: 3D Route Builder 1.3.7 release is now compatible with the new kml format produced by latest Google Earth. Download here. Please also take a look at the 3D Route Builder quick start tutorials! This is the best way to begin learning how to use this powerful software.
29 November 2009: Please download 3D Route Builder 1.3.6 which fixes an issue caused by Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731.
28 November 2009: Latest version of Google Earth 5.1.3533.1731 will cause an error in 3D Route Builder when updating an altitude when the camera is further from the ground than the default range. Workaround is to move closer than the default range (typically 500 metres). We will release a new version of 3D Route Builder by 30 November. Thanks for your understanding!
8 November 2009: Active GPX Route Player 1.2.1 and 3D Route Builder 1.3.5 updates released today. These fix the problems caused by Google Earth 5.1 not setting up correctly.
22 September 2009: There is an error in the latest version of Google Earth which results in 3D Route Builder and Active GPX Route Player not connecting to Google Earth. This is a bug which Google will fix in the next version of Google Earth. A work around is here. There are also issues for downloading from GPS devices. Solution is here.
4 September 2009: Active GPX 1.2 is here with support for Garmin TCX cadence, heart rate and power. Download here.
2 September 2009: Getting started tutorials are available for 3D Route Builder here. Let us know if they are useful or you have specific subject for a new tutorial.
27 August 2009: Active GPX 1.2 will be out very soon. It has support for Garmin TCX cadence, heart rate and power. Check out the video below of a GPS recording made by Garmin-Slipstream rider Bradley Wiggins in the Giro 2009 (using a Garmin Edge 705). It’s on a tough climb, though not the finale and still the power values are quite an eye opener. No heart rate recorded though. Get Bradley’s original tcx file from here.
5 August 2009 (2): 3D Route Builder 1.3.4 and Active GPX 1.1.5 available for download. Internet protocol settings fixes from last time still gave problems for some people. With any luck we’re done now...
5 August 2009 (1): Garmin Connect website has provided some TCX file downloads from the Tour de France. I’ve put together the rides of Vande Velde and Zabriskie on stage 19 (Garmin website says stage 20 but this is wrong) as a Active GPX playlist - get it here. Set Active GPX Route Player ‘Start Mode’ to Actual (True) Times. You’ll see these two team mates are pretty close together for the first 3 hours or so - use shift and the slider bar to speed up both guys. They then hit the last relatively large climb and Zabriskie, his work done, sits with the other slower riders and loses 15 minutes or more in the last hour. Vande Velde being an overall contender remains with the fast guys. The difference in climbing speed is striking!
27 July 2009: 3D Route Builder 1.3.3 and Active GPX 1.1.4 released. Minor bug fixes affecting both are made good. These included issues when opening routes with one point (somehow never hit this snag until this month!) and an unusual problem with internet protocol settings (basically in some very rare cases the icons and routes did not appear in Google Earth). Also remember that Active GPX and 3D Route Builder will return to normal price of 15 Euros at end of July - so please hurry if you want to take advantage of this.
22 June 2009: 3D Route Builder and Active GPX Route Player are now available for 9.95 Euros until the end of July! (normally 15 Euros).
12 June 2009: 3D Route Builder 1.3.2 is out. This fixes a nasty bug that prevented saving of courses that were opened from a url (e.g. from Google Maps).
11 June 2009: If you wish to purchase from us directly instead of through the website then please contact us. We’ll send you a license key within a day along with an invoice.
27 April 2009: 3D Route Builder 1.3.1 supports Google Earth Mars mode! To celebrate this you can download a gpx file of a fantasy route up the massive Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in the solar system and 2.5 times higher than Everest. On a serious note we’ve also fixed some bugs and allowed users of the free version to disable the adverts and info banners.
11 March 2009: 3D Route Builder 1.3 is released and you can get it on the download page. New features include:
* Support added for Garmin TCX history files loading,
* Support for Google Earth 5.0 KML files,
* Improved messages for file load errors,
* Really nice printing of the data grid,
* Setting of network link refresh interval to Google Earth (for very large routes),
* On/Off of network link (for huge routes)
02 March 2009: Google Earth 5.0 produces a new version of KML that we currently do not support. To workaround the problem open the kml file in a text editor and change the line <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> to <kml>.
01 March 2009: We’ve had a number of inquiries about new versions of 3D Route Builder. Well we’d like to release something soon but we’re still stuck with the issue of Google Earth support - the new web plug-in would be ideal to use from these applications, but we’re still not clear on the Google terms and conditions of use. The current COM based interface is no longer being expanded by Google and gave problems with version 4.3. In the mean time 3D Route Builder remains the best path editor for Google Earth.
On another note we are getting increasing numbers of questions about Garmin TCX files. 3D Route Builder only supports course versions of these and not the history versions that are the default. So you need to use the Garmin software to first create courses from the training sessions in your history file. Unfortunately we do not give a warning when you try to open a history file, instead nothing happens. More info here.
23 December 2008: Google Translate is available on every page of this website now. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select your language.
13 November 2008: Active GPX Route Player Business is now available and features a very powerful route analysis feature. The generated html reports shows details including time and length of stops, distance, speeds and uses the new Google Maps reverse geo-coding to show the street addresses of all points of interest.
20 October 2008: A demonstration of the output report of the new Active GPX Route Player Analysis function is available here. The source GPS files for this report are here.
16 October 2008: A new version of Active GPX Route Player is due for release shortly. The big addition will be for commercial logistics users wanting to analyze GPS recordings. Active GPX Route Player Business can create detailed reports of stoppage and driving times, average and maximum speeds, and it links directly to Google Maps. Basic price is still to be decided but is likely to be about 60 Euros for the off-the-shelf software. An easily modified CSS file is also generated allowing you to customise the report appearance but if you prefer a low price report customisation service offered - basically if the reports do not look exactly like you want them or you need a different statistic then this can be done by us quickly and cheaply.
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