Suunto GPS Watches are popular for their great features. With a Suunto GPS watch you can track your current location and speed as well as the direction and distance to your destination. You can also program routes in advance, save and chart trips, save the coordinates of interesting locations, and even retrace your steps back to your starting point. All these make the Suunto GPS watch really cool, right?

Their two newest models, the Suunto X9 and X9i, however, are even cooler than the rest of the Suunto GPS watch lines since you can export the data or your track from the watch to your computer and map it out into Google Earth, showing just exactly what your route was inculding where you started and ended up.

The Suunto Track Exporter is a free software and can be dowloaded at their website anytime. Upgrades of the software are also free. As of the moment the version of the Track Exporter available has only the most core features but knowing Suunto they will surely be making an even better version available. The Track Exporter is so easy to use that you don’t even have to worry about the conversion process since it converts your data into Google Earth format automtically. Google Earth versions supported by the Track Exporter starts from Google Earth 3.0. It is compatible to all types of Google Earth, whether Free, Plus, or Pro