GPS

From TheGredil

Contents 1 What's happening? 2 Links 2.1 Maping 2.2 Companies 2.3 Information 2.4 Software 3 Retailers/Distributors

What's happening?

I recently got a Magellan eXplorist 210 and have found it to be great. I won't bore you the specs, you can read it on their web-site. I was so impressed with it I purchased the bike bracket for it and now have it on the handlebars of the mountain bike.

I have started experimenting with downloading the track logs (as you travel around it stores and tracks you latitude, longitude and altitude). I have been using various GPS utilities to interpret the data and mapping software to view the tracks. The thing that I was really impressed with was a site (http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/map?form=googleearth) that allows you to convert the data to a Google Earth .kmz file so you can view the track over satellite imagery. You can customise it quite a bit too, using different colours for altitude, speed, slope, heart rate etc...

Here is an example:

St_Abbs_Head.kmz which looks something like:

Links

Maping

Convert GPS logs to Google Earth format
Open Source GIS

Companies

Magellan

Information

NMEA-0183 and GPS Information - Peter Bennett
GPS Information (US)

Software

GPS Utility program (UK)

Retailers/Distributors

Next Destination Australian distributor (WA)