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If you haven’t already sprung for a standalone GPS, there might be a chance you don’t have to.
Smartphones are becoming more and more common, and with these hand-held devices comes GPS capability far beyond the power of a standalone unit.
If you’re using a windows mobile device with GPS support , you’ve got your choice of a plethora of programs designed to cache your path or provide navigation assistance. I personally use a freeware tool called Noniplot, which has an awesome amount of statistics for your ride, average speed / distance / time going uphill or downhill, as well as total trip information, and the program cleanly plots out a two dimensional map of your path and an elevation chart. Probably its best feature is the ability to import and export a variety of file formats, including anything found on this site.
Noniplot is created by a Frenchman, so you’ll have some fun finding third-party sites in English. The creator is proficient in English, however, so looking at the program or his website you wouldn’t be able to tell.
[url:26w43qsd]http://aeguerre.free.fr/Public/PocketPC/NoniGPSPlot/EN/index.php[/url:26w43qsd]
Well check it out. Don’t carry around a second device, and if you have any questions let me know-
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My son and I just ran our first GPS track with a program called GPS Tuner.
It worked pretty well with an HTC 8925 PPC.
Here’s an online photo album that includes a jpeg of the track.
[url:6a3l1ln3]http://picasaweb.google.com/itzoomz/2008RobbersCaveBikin#[/url:6a3l1ln3]
The only trouble I’ve had is finding detalied maps of the remote areas around here to put the tracks on.
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Nice! Your trip out with your son looks like it was very beautiful. I’ll check out GPS Tuner next time I’ve got some down-time.
As an aside, I’ve used a program in the past called GoogleMV (google map viewer) that can download and split maps for use as the background maps in these programs. Check out the first post of the forum here:
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topi … c_ID=80827
It takes a bit of tweaking, but can output some pretty neat stuff.Have you any other tips from your experiences with these gps tools?
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I’ve used the 8925 several times to track. It works about 80% of the time. It seems to lose signal under the trees then it has a hard time getting signal back while were moving.
It works find just to play around with but if you want to count on it I don’t thinks its reliable enough.
From my experience’s I’m getting a dedicated GPS and mounting it on the handle bar so it will do a better track.
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I am using my Nokia N78, with a Nokia application called Nokia Sports Tracker.
It just records your track and gives you statistics about it. You can see it in its web site too, positioned over google maps.
It shows your speed, distance, time and draws your tracking while your are using it.
I recomend it to anyone
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