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Post subject: GPS devices to measure speed and distance travelled
 Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 09:20 AM
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| Can anyone recommend a gps device that can record your top speeds and your total distance travelled in a day snowboarding? There are so many different ones around, I haven't got a clue which are good. Cheers for any advice! |
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Post subject: RE: GPS devices to measure speed and distance travelled
Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 09:28 AM
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| Suunto and Garmin make really good watches. |
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Post subject: RE: GPS devices to measure speed and distance travelled
Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 09:37 AM
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| You can get on a phone, I think its the N95 |
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Post subject: RE: GPS devices to measure speed and distance travelled
Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 12:39 PM
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This is pretty cool, loads and loads of functions on it, cool twisting bezel to activate the different info...
Nixon Delta |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 12:55 PM
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| Pretty much any GPS will do it - although if you get one that creates track logs you can view your lines in Google Earth after manipulating the data with www.gpsvisualizer.com |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 07:34 PM
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| How accurate are these things? Im guessing the take into account elevation too? |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 07:41 PM
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| That Nixon Delta thing looks pretty cool! I think I'll download the manual and see what it actually does in terms of measuring distance ridden etc. It has a barometer function that can predict the weather!! |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 07:53 PM
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| cheers for the replies. I've had a look at many different Garmin ones but I don't think I need anything as serious as some of those top-end ones. I'll keep on investigating though! thanks again. |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 08:15 PM
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| You dont need the top end ones - ive got one and its got so much on it i never use, I would have been better off with a cheaper one and a seperate car sat nav device, instead of a handheld one with colour mapping etc. On the hill all you need is one that makes log files you can get at with a usb or memory card reader and that website i linked above. When you rent one for the day in the resort they only use fairly basic ones - as that all you need to get the data - its the data that is then used to make all the pretty charts n maps if you want to go mad and spend money buy some good mapping software |
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p3eps
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 08:23 PM
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Would you get a GPS signal on a watch if you had it under your jacket / gloves?
Screens are pretty pointless as if you start looking at that, you're gonna go head first!
I like the idea of an Altimeter watch - but then you're looking at at least £150... |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 09:33 PM
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Get a cheap ass Garmin that is *just* for walkers/hikers etc. The watches and stuff are fun, but who wants a massive bulky heavy thing getting in the way of your wristguards. Any will do from the "etrex" range, just look for the features you need (elevation/digital compass/colour screen/ability to upload actual maps rather than co-ordinates) and price accordingly. Here is a great starter for 10:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-010-0022 ... mp;sr=1-16
£85, it's rugged, waterproof, has elevation and a USB port for data transfer. OK, the Garmin route and waypoint software is balls, but here is your secret weapon....Google Earth. Get a $20 upgrade to Google Earth Plus, and when you get back from your holidays, you can upload your data straight into Google Earth from ANY Garmin device. You can even (with the help of a piece of free software called GPSBabel) plot a route out in Google Earth (I have a free KMS file that uses actual OS maps in overlap, so has every footpath in the country shown) so if you fancy using it for more than just snowsports, eg hiking, mountain biking etc, then you can plot away on GE, then upload it as a route to follow on the GPS (or just to check if you are on track if you don't want to be looking at it all the time.
Throw it in your pack at the top, or in a side pocket, and forget about it all day, a pair of AAs should keep it running for a couple of days, and it has a full WAAS (fancy term for the better kind of) antennae which isn't the size of a gnats left teste in order for it to fit in a watch, so you'll get faster lock-ons, and fewer reception issues. WAAS should get you to 5-10 feet accuracy, and in the mountains unless you get in a big gulley or trees you should get plenty of sattelites to ensure you get an accurate fix.
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 11:13 PM
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| I find even with a WAAS capable device you get gaps in logs/tracks sometimes, so I doubt you are going to get good data from something in a watch - as Stuffe and I have said - get a cheapish dedicated GPS device if you want good data |
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Posted: Oct 12, 2008 - 11:27 PM
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Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 05:34 PM
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Posted: Oct 13, 2008 - 07:08 PM
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Location: Rotherham isn't so bad. If you are from Iraq.
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| nice, thanks for that link... |
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