On Sep 2, 9:12 pm, "Trevor" <
[email protected]>
wrote:
> On our walk today my mate measured with his map wheel to 5.5 mls. I
> measured it with my normal thumb length for half a mile and it came to 5.5
> to 6 mls, and the E Trex gave 7.1 miles. Why should this be? It also gave
> our moving average as 4 mph which seemed too high as well.
On my basic yellow Etrex I find turning off Battery Save gets rid of
'all' the spikes.
As has been mentioned the GPS will record where it has been, not where
you think it has been, plus if it looses its signal it wil draw a
straight line from the last known point.
So if you walk around taking a few photographs whilst carrying the GPS
that distance is logged, e.g. if I carry mine whilst cutting my small
lawn, it says I have walked about 0.5 miles, just walking up and down
the lawn.
Also the distance displayed by any 3rd party software could have spike
removal turned on, e.g. if you are walking and the speed you reached
the next GPS point was over say 10 mph than that is probably a spike
and can be removed, unless of course you have just jumped off a cliff!
Ted