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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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