setting pins from out in the field - transfer from google maps to google earth

Posted by dtolmanMorlaix on
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Hello,
I did a quick search and did not find the answer yet. Please forgive me if I missed the answer my search of topics on the forum.

1) I think I am correct that with quickstart, I can set pins using my phone but not set them at my "current GPS location" while I am out in the field.
2) If I want to use GPS out in the field to set pins, I can use google maps in my Android phone. I did this this morning and I have a 'list' of GPS points.
3) Now, I would like to get this list into google earth but haven't figured out how, other than by manually re-typing them, as described here... https://youtu.be/HBhNiwTM5lk

More to read, only if you want to know why I am asking:
The context: I was trying to set up a course using google earth, but, because of tree cover, I have a trail junction that I can't really make out. Google earth has nothing but trees nearby so I cannot tell where to set the pins. (I understand the general guidance to never set controls in places that google earth cannot see because this means that the GPS may also have problems. But this is a running course and not an orienteering course. I am just adding some controls so that I have some beeps while running.)

So, because I couldn't use google earth, I decided to go out into the field to set my points. I opened quick start out in the field and saw that I did not have a GPS indicator to tell me where I was and that I could not create a pin at 'current position' for example in the quickstart function.

So, no problem, I open the google maps application and start saving my current position. I saved 10 or 15 locations, not planning to use all of them, but to give me a track of where the path goes.

Now I would like to get those saved locations into google earth so that I can edit and come up with a final course.