3D Map overlay for GoPro videos with GPS and Google Earth

Use these tools to create the 3D GPS map and telemetry overlays.
Easier all-in-one solution Telemetry Overlay: goprotelemetryextractor.com/t...
Telemetry Extractor:
- Full (new version): goprotelemetryextractor.com/g...
- Lite: goprotelemetryextractor.com/f...
Google Earth Pro: www.google.com/earth/versions...
After Effects telemetry overlay: goprotelemetryextractor.com/c...
Tools for DJI (Mavic, Phantom, Inspire...) drones: djitelemetryoverlay.com/
For assistance improving the GPS data in your GoPro videos, see this page: goprotelemetryextractor.com/g...
More tutorials
Telemetry Extractor: • Telemetry Extractor 2 ...
After Effects telemetry template: • GoPro Telemetry After ...
DJI Telemetry overlay: • Telemetry Template for...
Some video editors:
- Adobe Premiere (Paid/Trial): www.adobe.com/products/premie...
- Adobe After Effects (Paid/Trial): www.adobe.com/products/aftere...
- Davinci Resolve (Free): www.blackmagicdesign.com/prod...
- Sony Vegas: www.vegascreativesoftware.com/
- Final Cut Pro: www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/
Let me know if you have ideas or questions! :)

[@Ashombang]

Good job. Very articulate and straight to the point. No fluff! You make great videos that are very informative and easy to digest.

[@jonmears7540]

Possibly the single best explainer I've watched. Thank you.

[@zibitappert]

This is an awesome tutorial! Cant wait to try it out. Cheers man!

[@burtdakarax]

This is probably the best Google Earth tutorial for making a movie from a gpx file. Absolutely surperb. Thank you so much.

[@RidingAShoppingCart]

DUDE AMAZING JOB !! Freaking wonderful thanks

[@travisdonley8768]

freaking cool man, thanks!

[@Franchyze923]

Awesome tutorial! I was able to use the .gpx file from my Garmin Dashcam and make a movie in Google Earth. Looks great!

[@RoadTripRuss]

Wow very cool I can't wait to try it. Thanks

[@cq7415]

Really neat. Thanks for sharing.

[@fambike9670]

sir this is great content very useful for us adventurer , Thanks for the quik link

[@judo4competition441]

Muy bueno. Llevo viendo varios videos tuyos y estoy aprendiendo mucho.👍

[@Alpha-uk6ks]

This looks advanced i Will try to do this excellent video

[@PoVTube]

Fantastic!

[@laurentiuprisacariu9905]

woaaa..this is gold

[@jesselima_dev]

WoW amazing!!!!! I just bought a GoPro. This will help to great nice videos.

[@heldinson]

well explained..thank you so much...

[@DigitalRaider1]

Awesome. Thanks

[@JasonRamasami]

Thankyou!

[@Guthbutter]

Thank you for this tutorial! Great video, very informative and easy to follow. Do you know of any way to perform this same application using 360 video?

[@danielguiwan016]

that was cool

[@ontheroadalfaandi9418]

legend

[@ICEBURG]

Ultra joss..

[@JCBrownVideos]

Good one, thanks. I have never been successful making a tour/video with GE, but I'll try again following your instructions. One thing, there is no Sony Vegas; it is now, and has been for the last few years, Magix Vegas.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Thanks! I'm outdated! 😅

[@TelemetryOverlay]

By the way. Looking forward to seeing your results!

[@ravenrising]

More of this please.

[@Umba360]

Hey great video man. One question; How did you do the effect at the end where you switch the map from satellite data to the standard one? Thanks

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I added map overlays to Google Earth. It's not straightforward and it can be buggy, as Google Earth is not exactly designed for that, but here's a link with the info ge-map-overlays.appspot.com/

[@fredz21]

Managed to crash Google Earth while rendering the tour but this is indeed gold

[@Jaydabblju]

The tutorial I searched for! Thanks! Is there a way to don't rotate the map? I would like to have north always to the top of the screen.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I'm not sure. There might be an option when setting up the tour, but I don't remember. Sorry

[@content4free99]

You made a great Tutorial! After I made the Movie Maker on Google Earth Pro step, a time slider is on the upper left of my outputted video. I wonder to know how to make the time slider invisible. I would appreciate a reply!

[@bobbybrand879]

Hello, great tutorial! I've been playing around with the Google Maps API and running the html/Javascript code it's limited to around zoom:20 (feels like 20 meters above ground). But with the Google Earth Pro application I can manually zoom into maps to ground level view. Do you know if possible to use the Google Earth API data to allow to run html/Javascript to allow to zoom right into ground level (without using the Google Earth Pro Application) ?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi Bobby. No, I don't know. Sorry

[@jtabeto]

I really like your software and its helping me a lot with my projects. I just have one question, is it possible to generate a GPX, KML or KMZ file out of Google Maps where you have pre-planned route already for several places with your software and run it on Google Earth and create a tour with an arrow icon as if you are driving around? I've tried this but it did not animate like the GPX files gotten directly from Gopro. It just kind of fly the route without the arrow icon. Maybe you have an idea to make this happen. Thanks!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I think the problem is the GPX file generated with Google Maps contains a GPX route, but not a GPX track. The main difference is routes do not have timestamps for the GPS coordinates, so they are less suitable for animation. I have not tested this personally, but some online tools can convert GPX routes to GPX tracks (Google seems to give some good results). This should do the trick. Otherwise let me know and I'll think of alternatives.

[@akumartek]

Hi, great video. I am just wondering if there is a way to create a georeferenced photos from the video so they can be displayed as points with photo attached?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

You will need to extract and manipulate the data with custom scripts, to do that. There might be some tools that help with that, but I'm not sure which ones.

[@danielsimpson8929]

Is there a way to make the map overlay opaque? Or reshape from a box to anothershape? Circle, oval, anything but box. Was thinking if you could make it very opaque you might be able to overlay full size. Also if you did a terrain map where the map was stationary but opaque up in the corner and you saw the entire trail and just the travel point moved, would be nice. Let me know and thanks! Great content!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

You could do all of that in a video editor, depending on your skill and the program you are using

[@jandone100]

Hi, this is great what you' done. I wanted to ask for help, as you might know how to do it. I use GoPro as a safety camera to record near misses and close passes of cars. I'd like to precent police with a video footage and when I come to the point where the car passed, I'd like to be able to see where on map I was. The process you show in the video seems a lot of work to do after every ride, so I am after something more simple, but not sure if GoPro can do it. Many thanks!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi. You can achieve that much more easily with Telemetry Overlay. See this tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGqZfK2Al7yShac

[@mirkocarnieletto1765]

Hi! This is very interesting! Do you know if there's a way to add notes on the map? For example for a bike ride in the mountains and you want to show the mountain name when you reach the peak, or when you pass near a monument and want to show its name Thank you!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi. I don't think that's possible directly with Google earth. You could attempt it with Telemetry Overlay and custom MapBox styles, but it's a complex process kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6bbZIKmZ8p_hrM

[@cszulu2000]

Why does my arrow not move, I see the data from the flight, but not the animation

[@roberturbanphotography]

Hi for me it does not draw the animated line when I run the tour. I see the complete track blue but no animation

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Sorry. I missed your message. I'm not sure why that could happen. Did you try changing the thickness, color and transparency of the line?

[@jamppapVisuals]

Awesome tutorial! Is there a way to merge two GoPro GPX files because apparently this method will not work if there are two or more files. Or is there another way to make a video like this if there are multiple GPX files?

[@jamppapVisuals]

I tried to merge two GPX files with GPSvisualizer, but when I import the merged file into Google Earth Pro, there is still two files

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@jamppapVisuals There might be other options, but the ones I know are to export the merged GPX file directly from Telemetry Extractor Premium, or do the entire visualization in the Telemetry Overlay software (it looks different from Google Earth), both of which can merge consecutive GoPro files.

[@KMacArthur92]

Sweet video, GoPro has a feature called timewarp where it's like a timelapse but a video played at 30x speed. When importing the GPS data and making the tour on Google Earth, it takes two hours to record the entire clip as the real time traveled was 2 hours, whereas the timewarp is only 2 and a half minutes. Is there a way to speed up the recording process for the Google Earth tour or will I have to speed up the footage in Premier? Looking forward to all the cool things I can do with the GoPro and Adobe :D!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Have a look at 2:25 when I set the speed to 1. Instead of that, choose the same multiplier as in your timewarp setting. If you don't know that, you can make some calculations or tests

[@KMacArthur92]

@@TelemetryOverlay Awesome, it goes up to a max of 20x, so I set it to 15x and will increase the speed in Premier 2x if needed. Appreciate the quick reply!

[@321-Gone]

Great video. Do you know of a way to speed up recordings?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

You cam change the tour speed, like in 2:28 to something faster, but then your video will not be in real time

[@MundosMeridianos]

cant get it to work in sinc:(

[@stathisxanthopoulos1933]

have we got any idea why when i m playing the tour the icon that shows where the gps device is moving stops after a second until i pose the tour. then it appears where it should be but when i play again the tour the same exactly happens the icon stops moving almost immediately . Also very helpful video . and the program you ve got for the extraction of data. All this work is only by one person?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I think I had glitches like that when I recorded this but they got solved by just retrying. Yes. One person. Glad you like it :)

[@stathisxanthopoulos1933]

@@TelemetryOverlay now it is playing it ok. It has been fixed by itself lol

[@opiodavid7370]

Auma gress merry,ug go

[@stathisxanthopoulos1933]

sorry for the spam but i tried to render the video and the video was big pixels with different color playing. i tried lower quality options but then again these pixels. does anybody know why and what i can do to fix it?

[@Sir-Kay]

Can I do this if I don't use Telemetry? I use Garmin Virb. Since regular maps don't work with Virb edit, will I be able to use google earth together with Virb edit if yes, how do I go about it step by step?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Probably. But I haven't tried it

[@Sir-Kay]

@@TelemetryOverlay I tried downloading Google earth and importing the gpx file that I recorded both on my Garmin Edge and Strava on my phone and it's blurred out in Google earth, I can't import it.

[@nielsontheroad]

Very interesting, thank you. I got this error repeatedly after changing some settings back and forth: No GPS data with current settings. Move Precision up and/or Fix down. Any idea what the problem could be? I have a HERO 7 Black. Thanks in advance!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

It seems your camera failed to record a good GPS signal. You can try moving the sliders, as the error message suggests, to recover some of the data, but have a look at this tutorial to see how to record a better signal kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoOXiZKMqJh_fKM

[@nielsontheroad]

@@TelemetryOverlay Thanks for the quick reply. Then the problem is that I record upside down and have it in a case inside a car lol. Do you happen to know if the newer GoPro's are any better? Thanks again.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

The new ones are exactly the same. You might want to record a backup GPX track with a phone, for example

[@tranai1400]

@UCQFWT-CNgkC8ukhKgHaB4Vw very clear, thx. But when I try to drag on slider to fast forward the process as your at 03:26, the map does not move at all. The recording time still increase with real time speed. P/S: I tried Repair Tool but no hope.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

No no, I'm not dragging the slider. I just fast forwarded my edited video so the tutorial was shorter, but in real life you need to wait for its completion

[@tranai1400]

@@TelemetryOverlay lol :) sorry, my misunderstood. Thank you. Then all perfect now, hehe.

[@steveobrien8792]

I was able to make a lot of progress. I followed step by step but for some reason the arrow doesn't move at real time speed. A Route that should take 8 minutes and change keeps finishing in 11 seconds.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Have a look at 2:25 when I change the tour speed to 1

[@sickmaniacsadventurerunner5928]

I had the same issue, but I realized I was not actually clicking the 'Track', I was still clicking the GPS device. Watch very closely at around 1:43 when he opens the new Track. I didn't notice that at first. Finally did, and it worked.

[@cenk82]

Sick Maniacs Adventure Runners thanks! Just hit the "apply" everytime you change a setting...

[@1q1q1q1q1q1q1qw]

it is super cool:). however to much work for me ^^ i would wish that there is a camera that could do this on its oeb

[@TelemetryOverlay]

It might be easier to create the maps with the Telemetry Overlay software, nowadays kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6bbZIKmZ8p_hrM

[@SenditATVSSLEDS]

Maybe you can help me. Imported GoPro gpx to google earth pro. Have to go to preferences now to change line size and speed. My speed of line will not change after I hit apply.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi. Sorry, I shot this a long ago and don't remember the details exactly. I think often the problem was confusing playing the track with playing the tour. Otherwise I hope someone else can help

[@SenditATVSSLEDS]

@@TelemetryOverlay ok thanks for responding though. 👍

[@jiangyi19850130]

how to extract gps data from video without using the premium version of telemetry extractor?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

With the free version goprotelemetryextractor.com/free/

[@voornaamachternaam90]

Can you make is much smaller the google map view in the video?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

You can rescale the map window in your video editor. Not sure if that answers your question

[@voornaamachternaam90]

@@TelemetryOverlay that's answer I needed

[@rcellis6767]

I'm trying to do a 12 min video. It just stops halfway through the movie maker part. No errors or anything. Any Ideas? The short videos i do work great but as soon as i get to the longer ones it stops.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Sorry, I never saw that happen. Maybe try encoding to a different video format, check that you have enough space in your drive... Does the entire tour run successfully if not making the movie?

[@HardSarge]

Hello, I’n my case, as a fisherman, I have many spots I fish the bottom for snapper/grouper etc. I sold my boat and forgot to save the latitude-Longitude. To my fishing spot book. How can I see the actual Lat/Long of videos I have saved in my camera and GoPro 11 App? Is that possible?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Yes. Use Telemetry Extractor to make a CSV file that you can analyse in Excel, or Telemetry Overlay to see the GPS coordinates on top of the video goprotelemetryextractor.com/telemetry-overlay-trial

[@HardSarge]

@@TelemetryOverlay thank You

[@genosypheus]

My man! If my recorded bike video is 6 hours, and my gpx data is also 6 hours, does that mean that during the recording on Google Earth desktop ( 3:20 ), it will also be 6 hours long? is there a way to shorten the recording ?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

See around 2:25 to control the speed at which the tour is played

[@deanhannah5456]

Are xiomi Mi shpere suported?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I am not sure it records GPS data internally, but if it doesn't you can record a GPX file externally with a phone app and do the same

[@Traccionhumana]

hi, good videos. already saw a couple, and its clear i have to to learn a lot. im has never use , premier or afttereffect I was searching about how yo i can get loged in quik, i just buy a gopro hero 8 and i cant acces to gps data. Quik not work in my mac. bye

[@TelemetryOverlay]

I has this problem and it just went away after reinstalling some version of Quik. You might want to try version 2.5.0 instead of the latest one (which has problems syncing the data)

[@Traccionhumana]

@@TelemetryOverlay i already try that but its not working

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@Traccionhumana unfortunately I don't know what else to suggest. In my case the problem just went away. I know there are lots of posts about the issue on the GoPro forums, maybe you can look there

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@Traccionhumana Hey, I just saw this in the forums, in case it helps: Open Quik for desktop While on the login screen, select the "Help" tab above the Quik for desktop window Select "Restart with default settings" A modal will appear saying "Are you sure?". Click "Restart" once more. Quik for desktop will close and reopen. Quik for desktop will appear as if you installed it for the first time. Go to the login screen and input your credentials. You should then be able to login successfully.

[@Traccionhumana]

@@TelemetryOverlay i did that several times, whitout success. Thanks anyway

[@abgbomba2796]

hi bro , im stuck at create video using movie maker , my box that have movie maker is blank cannot selected , do you have any idea why ?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

See how at 3:45 I close the tour playing controls. Could you double check you have closed them?

[@abgbomba2796]

@@TelemetryOverlay now can , btw now it wont stop record , after finish record 1 lap it wil round again and again , then i click stop record , go to exported folder and click open , video played with blank colour blue,red,green 😅 ,do you know what to do?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@abgbomba2796 Not sure. What format did you export to? h264 tends to work well

[@abgbomba2796]

Mp4 sir

[@abgbomba2796]

Thanks Allah , now already can record and play well , well done sir ,tqvm sir 😁

[@christianrazozuniga4153]

que precio tiene es mensual o es anual

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Perdona Christian, no había visto tu mensaje. Sobre qué precio preguntas? Google Earth Pro es gratis, los precios de las herramientas de telemetría están en la web goprotelemetryextractor.com/

[@joseaviles139]

Does this work with smartphones? Or only go pro?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

It works with any device that can record GPS data to GPX format, including phones

[@rmsines]

why the GPS in Tools menu it's deactivated in my google earth pro?

[@rmsines]

i go it. it's because de video preview it's on. i have to close it

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi. This was recorded a long time ago so I don't remember exactly, but could it be that you are not selecting the right thing for that step? Like the tour or the track... Se what is selected exactly in the tutorial at that point and try to do the same. Sorry I can't be more specific

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

What if Google Earth will not allow you to import a GPX file? I tried KML but that produces 100's of pins and not really the same as what is in your video. Much appreciated.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hmm. I haven't seen that happen before. Is the GPC file coming from a GoPro or somewhere else?

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

@@TelemetryOverlay I am not sure how but I got it to import, the name of the file was in black instead of grayed out and it took it, however the track never showed up on the map. There were no linked files name in the Google Earth Panel to click on to play the animation. i deleted it and tried to import again and now it will not let me import anything. Not KLM or GPX. At least not through the File > Import way. I am on a mac BTW.

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@HoustonBrownPhotography How strange. I haven't touched Google Earth in a while, but I remember it would sometimes be in some "mode" expecting and action from you and not allowing other things. I would maybe try restarting it, uninstalling it... Sorry I don't have a more specific answer

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

@@TelemetryOverlay I appreciate you trying. Very frustrating because I have followed this video before and it worked. Argghhhh.

[@HoustonBrownPhotography]

I found the issue. I needed to use OPEN and not IMPORT. Worked just fine.

[@kpwnage97]

Can this be done with iPhone footage?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

If you record the GPS data separately, yes. There are apps that record to GPX format

[@digitaltitan]

Can you add the Insta360 One R to your GPX extractor?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Hi Ted, It's something I'd like to do in the long term, but not sure when I'll be able to. For now the Insta360 data s available in Telemetry Overlay (more GPS map options coming to T.O. soon)

[@digitaltitan]

@@TelemetryOverlay Thanks. I just purchased Telementry Overlay. Love the software. Would be cool if the GPS behaved liked the Google Earth follow along. Anyway, great work!

[@TelemetryOverlay]

@@digitaltitan Great! Something similar is coming ;-) (a bit simpler though, not so much in 3D)

[@ScottOwens28]

Have you done this with Drone footage yet?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

Yes. Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpnKgmuXhbqklbc

[@nicspics]

Can you do that manually without gps data from a GoPro?

[@TelemetryOverlay]

You can do this with any GPX file