NavQuest.com imports custom waypoints, routes and trip tickets into Google Earth

Florida, USA, 25 March 2007: NavQuest the designer and developer of expert marine directions, navigation and business geographic software announced that visitors to NavQuest.com can easily export custom trip searches to the GPX geographic file format, via the Free Trip Planning service which can then easily be imported into Google Earth directly.

President Harry Sangha, “Giving our visitors the ability to import their custom waypoints and trip ticket information to one of the webs most popular online mapping service via our Trip Planning service is a slam-dunk” NavQuest.Com’s Free Trip Planning service provides easy export & import capability of waypoints, routes and trip tickets to and from GPX (the GPS Exchange ) format.

GPX is a light-weight XML data format for the interchange of GPS data between applications and Web services on the Internet. Google Earth's standard data is Keyhole Markup Language (.KML or a compressed .kmz file). Google Earth is capable of importing various other standard geographic file formats, including the .GPX

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