Where to buy a Garmin Edge 305

Originally Posted by peterlip

Got it in one, that's exactly how the altitude is calculated. Riding to work the other day, the altitude matched google earth's value pretty well spot on, 25m. The unit was off all day, and when switching it on, it read 75m below sea level. I assume that means a high pressure system came in during the day. I think it didn't help that I turned it on indoors, and as soon as it was outside searching for satellites, I was off and riding. It took half the ride, 45 min, before it was back on track. I suspect that if I had turned it on outside, and was stationary for a few minutes, it would've calibrated much quicker. More experimentation required.
I got mine from Johnny Appleseed, who are on St Kilda Rd in Melbourne (St Kilda actually). A bit more expensive than Aussiedeals, but GPS is what they do, so could answer any question I had. And if I have any problems, they're not far away. They also cut me a bit of a deal with map software, which is not for the unit, but is useful for downloading rides onto the computer, and uploading waypoints & courses to the unit.

Originally Posted by scotty72

Does this unit let you download course data into something like google maps or google earth to produce a course that others can follow (with profiles)?

Originally Posted by peterlip

Can't believe that worked!!
Anyway, the .gpx file seems to be an XML file that contains almost 1000 points, each with the latitude, longitude, elevation and time I was at that point. From this, you could (or what ever software you're using) should be able to work out speed, gradient, etc.
The training software that the unit comes with it doesn't seem to be able to export the course to another format, so you'll need MapSource or some other piece of software to do it. I read somewhere that someone has created some freeware software for this unit. I'm not sure if it focuses on the training aspect or the mapping aspect, but what it does mean is that people are out there writing software for this unit.

Originally Posted by joelireland

Hi,

I'm from Melbourne (presently living in Taswegia) but I looked at johnny appleseed and almost bought one from him - great unit - but i held off because i wanted to be able to use it not only for cycling (its main purpose) but for navigation also (i.e. get coordintes off the unit) and with the firmware that came on it you couldn't do this. But i kept looking into it and found that the upgraded firmware you could do this.

I think Johnny Appleseed was asking around $570 AUD but i decided to get it from Geo.Man in america. Around $430 AUD and it arrived exactly 1 week after i bought it - no duty import taxes or anything. It did come with an american plug for the charger however, but as i plug it into the usb cable of the computer it charges from there anyway. The plug is also 100-240V input so all it needs is an adapter (i.e. no transformer required).

So all good.

Originally Posted by scotty72

Joe,

Is that the Geo.Man on Ebay

he claims to only ship to the USA, or will he if you ask nicely?

Scotty

Originally Posted by peterlip

Can't believe that worked!!
Anyway, the .gpx file seems to be an XML file that contains almost 1000 points, each with the latitude, longitude, elevation and time I was at that point. From this, you could (or what ever software you're using) should be able to work out speed, gradient, etc.
The training software that the unit comes with it doesn't seem to be able to export the course to another format, so you'll need MapSource or some other piece of software to do it. I read somewhere that someone has created some freeware software for this unit. I'm not sure if it focuses on the training aspect or the mapping aspect, but what it does mean is that people are out there writing software for this unit.

Originally Posted by ozbiker2

The freeware is called SportTracks
I just loaded peter's gpx file into it and it worked flawlessly. Very cool!! Street map of Melbourne and his cycle route plus satellite image of the route too. Complicated Is that an escape route

Originally Posted by miyata610

I just tried that too... I'm impressed!

Great satellite images and the street maps are good too.

So was this a trip from home to work?

It finishes just near Swinburne right?

Originally Posted by Outdoorgaz

Where did you find the firmware update? Not being able to obtain a coordinate off the unit has stopped me getting one.
Thanks