Hello,
Now the issue at hand. This question is about different sports and activities. My main usage is cycling and cross-country skying but it could be for jogging, rollerblading, motorbike and even geo-tagging pictures (afterward).
The most important issue is a low price and quality/ruggedness. In counterpart I need little features, in fact I need just an indicator that it's tracking ; it could be just a flashing LED or the time of the last location recording. Of course having the current time would be nice and heart rate monitoring would be great but what would be amazing is a long lasting pretty cheap wearable GPS tracker. Wearing it as a watch would be nice but it could also be as armband, necklace and could even go so far as belt.
Of course the wearable tracker need to upload to a computer. Preferably with widely supported standards like USB ( likely with micro or mini connector) and Bluetooth which don't need driver ; drivers are a headache and need to be constantly updated for new software and are not available for all OS. I'd like to plug it in a common system and fetch the tracker data as there was an internal USB key which the device dumped data information into. I'd much prefer to get information than data, especially if the later is proprietary ; XML would be amazing.
I almost forgot! An important feature is battery availability ; if the device use an uncommon battery, I'll be limited for my replacement shopping and worse, if it stop being manufactured I'll be stuck with a bitter souvenir (device rendered useless). I'd like the tracker to either manually or automatically change settings to limit battery use. For example, when I walk I need longer to cross distance and change direction so the tracking can slow down, but cycling I need to track more as I can change direction faster ; the exception to this is when I'm on a motorbike, I don't need a precise route.
To sum up: I'd like a cheap, rugged, easy data fetching & easy information decoding wearable GPS tracker.
Thank you kindly /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif
Now the issue at hand. This question is about different sports and activities. My main usage is cycling and cross-country skying but it could be for jogging, rollerblading, motorbike and even geo-tagging pictures (afterward).
The most important issue is a low price and quality/ruggedness. In counterpart I need little features, in fact I need just an indicator that it's tracking ; it could be just a flashing LED or the time of the last location recording. Of course having the current time would be nice and heart rate monitoring would be great but what would be amazing is a long lasting pretty cheap wearable GPS tracker. Wearing it as a watch would be nice but it could also be as armband, necklace and could even go so far as belt.
Of course the wearable tracker need to upload to a computer. Preferably with widely supported standards like USB ( likely with micro or mini connector) and Bluetooth which don't need driver ; drivers are a headache and need to be constantly updated for new software and are not available for all OS. I'd like to plug it in a common system and fetch the tracker data as there was an internal USB key which the device dumped data information into. I'd much prefer to get information than data, especially if the later is proprietary ; XML would be amazing.
I almost forgot! An important feature is battery availability ; if the device use an uncommon battery, I'll be limited for my replacement shopping and worse, if it stop being manufactured I'll be stuck with a bitter souvenir (device rendered useless). I'd like the tracker to either manually or automatically change settings to limit battery use. For example, when I walk I need longer to cross distance and change direction so the tracking can slow down, but cycling I need to track more as I can change direction faster ; the exception to this is when I'm on a motorbike, I don't need a precise route.
To sum up: I'd like a cheap, rugged, easy data fetching & easy information decoding wearable GPS tracker.
Thank you kindly /img/vbsmilies/smilies/smile.gif
