gps Archive

  • The best cure for travel lethargy: spinning and a big bump

    The best cure for travel lethargy: spinning and a big bump

    Went out for a pootle on the bike today to get over the fact that I’ve been on flights and sat in meeting rooms for the past week or so. It’s all @jimphelps fault, as he’s been going out pretty much the whole time that...

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  • Gmap Pedometer Route Tracing

    Gmap Pedometer Route Tracing

    A tweet from Jim Phelps put me on to the Gmap Pedometer, which I’ve been having a quick play with this evening. The service provides a means of being able to pre-record a route that can be exported to a gpx route in the same...

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  • With Rims Like These, Who Needs Enemas?

    With Rims Like These, Who Needs Enemas?

    523.18 miles in to the Kona PhD now and all is well. That’s 40+ hours in the saddle and 36652 calories burnt Average speed is up by probably more than 4 mph now over the old MTB wheels – but that’s not surprising given the...

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  • Openstreetmap

    Openstreetmap

    I could ramble on about the Ordnance Survey, but others have been there before me. Instead, I’ll just point you at: “OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project...

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  • Long and winding roads (in the cold)

    Long and winding roads (in the cold)

    So this wasn’t a particularly long road route, coming in at just over 30 miles, but it did take me an inordinately long time to get around the route.Here’s a map of the track I took, which loops from just North of Cardiff, up through...

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