Bug KML doesn't work as a track

[jarlrmai]

I created the attached KML it follows a road, loaded into Google Earth it works a track and you can move along it with the timeline

Loaded into sitrec is displays a ball at the end

 

[Mick West]

How did you create it?

 

[jarlrmai]

I exported the directions from Google earth and asked Claude to create a simple track based on it, with a set time around the middle.

I tested it by importing back into Google earth

 

[Mick West]

Should be fixed now. 2.190.1

Article:

Fixed a KML track whose altitudes are heights above the ground being read as heights above sea level. A track made 5 ft above a road was drawn far under the ground. Such a track is now read as height above the terrain, and a track that the file puts on the ground is put on the terrain. A track with no altitude mode, or with parts in different modes, is read as before. A sitch saved by version 2.190.0 or earlier keeps its tracks where they were. The Select Tracks list and the Altitude Range (ft) filter now put such a track on the loaded terrain to get its altitude, and the Track Browser shows its height above the ground (#15182 "KML doesn't work as a track").

Source: https://local.metabunk.org/sitrec/docs/WhatsNew.html

 

[jarlrmai]

Thanks Mick, now I just need to get the camera to follow the track, is there a way to do this?

 

[Mick West]

Thanks Mick, now I just need to get the camera to follow the track, is there a way to do this?

Hmm, you mean like a drone following the car? Or the camera attached to the car? Looking out the window? Or the camera a fixed position relative to the car?

 

[Mick West]

Is there a video you are trying to replicate?

 

[jarlrmai]

It's complicated because the guy cut together multiple clips but you can see his car clock at 7:07 and make it match up for that section, but it's from a moving car and I wanted to work out a good pipeline to recreate a path for a moving car without manually adding points in Sitrec

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...10_213759_90962c2a9c465b4a8d9325a1167a141c.js

 

[Mick West]

https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?cu...10_213759_90962c2a9c465b4a8d9325a1167a141c.js

That sitch is set to 2026-11-04 0208 UTC, but your generated track is 11-03, that's why it's not moving