First ride of 2010

[lnr]

I'm surprised to find that once round the block is nearly 2 miles. Just far enough to test my new Nuvi 550 that Mike spoiled me to for Christmas. And to discover that it really was far too cold for cycling without gloves. And having come back in I've worked out how to translate the data into a format I can import into bikely for a map of where I've been. Yay!

I wonder if embedding works:

First GPS trip

Share your bike routes @ Bikely.com

Apparently not, oh well, I'll leave this one anyway.

Comments

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

I quite like Nokia Sports Tracker. It runs on their GPS enabled mobile phones, keeps track of any music you have playing or any photos you take, and lets you upload the details so it looks like this: http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=1923302

[lnr]

That does look quite useful, especially if you do want an all-singing-all-dancing phone. And to be honest I'd have been happy with a unit that was just a GPS tracker.

This one has full sat-nav too, which I doubt I'll use much for being directed from A to B, but it's rather nice to see where you are on the map as you're cycling around. Even if I did have to buy the bike handlebar mount separately - and the USB cable, if I hadn't already had one - it only comes with a cigarette socket charger, which isn't much use on a bike!

It was a very generous present!

I do like being able to just import the saved track data into Bikely, since that's where all my other (hand drawn) routes are.