GE Path

GE Path is a lightweight CAD application designed specifically for helping you create paths and add various descriptions to placemarks saved in Google Earth. The tool is able to read data from KML files, link the placemarks and calculate distances between placemarks.

The program doesn’t make a good impression in the visual department. The layout looks crowded and a bit overwhelming at a first glance because it integrates all configuration settings into a single panel.

There’s also support for a help manual that offers information about the configuration process.

GE Path gives you the possibility to import data from KML or plain text file format, save the information to plain text file format, as well as export the grid to XLS file format. The application also lets you paste data from Excel, Word or other third-party utilities or directly enter data into the built-in table.

The information stored within the custom files is revealed in the main window, and you can view details about the place/WP name, description, latitude, longitude and altitude. It is important to mention that the placemark files have to embed only placemarks and no other items, such as paths and overlays.

GE Path allows you place names by adding sequential numbers and coordinates to names, removing names and icons, and selecting the altitude mode for the location.

You can leave descriptions as they are or remove them, or insert coordinates, distance to next place, route to next place or coordinates, distances and route.

When it comes to generating the path, you may change the line color and width, pick the altitude mode, and link the last node to the first one. You may also display a grid, alter the line color, as well as enter the distance between lines and number of lines.

What’s more, you can draw regular polygons around each placemark and calculate path's length or perimeter according to the sequential order of the placemarks.

GE Path comes with a handy suite of features but the GUI is not quite intuitive so rookies may spend some time trying to configure the dedicated parameters.