GPS and the "Big Picture"

I know one helicopter pilot who was making "GPS drawings" that way.

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that's very cool. it may be your fault that I buy a second non-mapping
gps unit tomorrow. (the battery life on my mapping gps are just too
short)

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phil said:

*I could spend hours playing with GPSes and maps. Oh wait, I do... *

I know exactly what you mean.

I haven't had my Foretrex GPS for very long so I don't have many tracks
yet but I do have one from the BUC12 Muni ride that you don't have 😄
Here it is in glorious 3D.

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What's it like living in a blob? 🙂

Wow, England is really small...well compared to Australia anyway.
That's great that you could drive to any point in the country in a
day.

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Phil, two of your location blurbs have a 100 Acre Wood feel to them.
With a little work you could be the next A.A. Milne.

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Can anyone recommend a GPS. There are lots of choices in prices from
less than $100.00 to over $400.00.

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Garmin E-Trex

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Evan Byrne said:

Garmin E-Trex

I have the E-trex (Vista) too. It's nifty and small. But I think
reception quality in modelately difficult terrain (light leaf cover,
city) is sub-par. I would reconsider if I were to buy again.

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phil said:

*Gary: The track-overlaid-on-a-3D-map is something I can't do. I've
tried it with 'World Wind' (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/), but it
had problems with differences between the height of the track and the
height of the ground. Does TrackLogs deal with this okay, or does the
track go underground or fly occasionally?*

World Wind is one of the few GPS related software packages I haven't
used (yet) so I don't know much about it (but probably will do soon). I
tried Tracklogs but didn't get on with it, that image I posted was from
OziExplorer 3D. The elevation of a track can be slightly (but only
slightly in my experience) different from the track to the map elevation
data but OziExplorer can draw the track on the 2D map before exporting
it to OziExplorer 3D as I did in that image.

I've been evaluating tons of GPS software packages and yet I still can't
decide which ones I like the best, they all have quirks that annoy me.
There are some that I don't like such as Tracklogs and Memory Map but
all the ones I've tried seem to be someway behind the times as far as
software goes, they have a retro feel.

My next port of call is GPS software on Linux, anyone have any pointers?

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One on one said:

*Can anyone recommend a GPS. There are lots of choices in prices from
less than $100.00 to over $400.00. *

I have a 'Garmin Foretrex 201'
(http://www.garmin.com/products/foretrex201/) which I've found to be
very good for unicycling. You wear it on your wrist so it has a decent
view of the sky and you can look at it easily while riding.

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