randomosity

Len­ovo W700

I made a few quick ref­er­ences to the mode by which I trans­fer my long and lat data to Google Earth for route dis­play. I was asked whether I was cap­tur­ing alti­tude inform­a­tion along with 2D pos­i­tion and the answer to this is yes. In fact, there are a vari­ety of inter­est­ing ways of visu­al­ising this data. Although Google Earth does allow for some manip­u­la­tion of this, I recently star­ted using GPS Visu­al­izer to play with this dimen­sion. If you point it at your data file it can provide you with some inter­est­ing per­spect­ives on your trips.

The week­end jaunt down coun­try looks like this:

A second cool way of show­ing this same alti­tude map­ping is to simply col­our code the 2D route for alti­tude. This map was also gen­er­ated at GPS Visu­al­izer using the same dataset:

Hav­ing used the Roy­al­Tek RGM-3800 for a week now I am very pleased with it. The biggest test to date came yes­ter­day when I grabbed a couple new AAA bat­ter­ies for it and made the fix at the apart­ment. I popped it in my suit jacket and headed off on a road trip down coun­try with my friend Mary. The little unit kept a fix all the way south, whether in the car, inside build­ings, in the train and the bat­ter­ies las­ted an even 10 hours (per­fectly timed for me re-entering the apartment.

I wish the unit could sync with OSX rather than hav­ing to use Par­al­lels to use the sup­plied data sync software.

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