Walks and GPS data
Mar. 14th, 2010 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today we got the train to Waterbeach (a ridiculous journey involving two legs of 5 minutes each on trains and a 45 minute wait in Cambridge, but at least it was sunny), and walked the 11 miles to Ely, and then got the train home again. It was a bit windy in places, and a bit hard work, but fun. We saw lots of birds, including several we hadn't yet ticked off in our little bird book, and generally had a nice time, although it was nicest while the sun was out.
I took the GPS along, and it did quite well, only running out of battery after nearly 5 hours, about half a mile from Ely station. According to it we averaged 2.1mph overall, and 2.9mph while moving, which seems pretty reasonable. Having got home I downloaded our data as a GPX track, and tried uploading it to Bikely.com, where I normally keep bike ride and walk maps - for some reason it only imported 23 points though, which showed us merrily crossing and recrossing the river. So instead I tried importing directly into Google maps, which seems to have worked much better, though it split it into 4 sections. I drew a 5th section by hand to finish the route.
Waterbeach to Ely, on Google maps
I wish I knew what to do to make it play nicely with Bikely though!
Now with added photos on Facebook. (login should not be required)
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Date: 2010-03-15 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-15 11:28 am (UTC)Checking the web it sounds like it just stores the current active log natively as a file called current.gpx anyway.
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Date: 2010-03-16 08:18 am (UTC)Wigeon: if so we failed to identify them at the time, so they probably don't count :) The photos are actually clearer than what I was seeing through the binoculars at the time, and we were having enough trouble working out what the shelduck were, so I kinda missed them.
Looking at the one on the centre right it could well be: greyish body with light reddish brown head with a white stripe down it. But it looks a bit white on the front too, and I can't make out the back. The rest of them don't look like anything in my book at all, but they're all a bit fuzzy :)
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Date: 2010-03-16 08:24 am (UTC)