gps

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i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a cheap handheld gps
from . i normally dont follow my map as well as i should do and end up
getting lost in some field or wood .and having to back track . any
suggestions

<http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=gps+handheld>

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Quoted message said:

i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a cheap handheld gps
from . i normally dont follow my map as well as i should do and end up
getting lost in some field or wood .and having to back track . any
suggestions

If all you want is your OS Grid position, then a Garmin Geko 101 will do
that, and some shops have them for £50 new (suspect its a poor seller, or
about to be discontinued).

Massive downside of the Geko 101 is absence of any computer interface, so
cannot upload points, tracks, planned routes, etc. from comfort of your PC.
Other, more expensive models, will do this. Eitehr new or s/hand.

- Nigel

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Quoted message said:

i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a cheap handheld gps
from . i normally dont follow my map as well as i should do and end up
getting lost in some field or wood .and having to back track . any
suggestions

I did a 25 mile ride at the weekend following my Garmin Etrex (£52 off
ebay). The pc lead was stupidly overpriced (getting on for £20) and I
made a bike mount out of an old front light.

Get yerself a copy of Memory Map http://www.memory-map.com/ and the
1-50000 map that covers your area... and follow the waypoints.

I had a brilliant ride and didn't worry too much about my paper map or
directions - the only sticky bit came in the forest at Mynydd Du where
my waypoint marking had been sloppy (and I got the occasional lost
signal too) .

Quoted message said:

i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a cheap handheld gps
from . i normally dont follow my map as well as i should do and end up
getting lost in some field or wood .and having to back track . any
suggestions

ebay is full of them isn't it ? I have a Garmin GPS 12 which has very
good solid build quality and probably will be cheap if you look long
enough, since they have been around for ages . The main problems are
that it needs four batteries and the display is rather basic. I also
have a 60cs and I often think the 12 held onto a signal better under
trees etc. If you go for a 12 you might like to make sure it has
recent firmware, very early ones (like mine ) are not user upgradable,
but if you don't know what firmware is then dont worry ! Pricewise I
wouldn't pay more than about 40 quid for one if you want a bargain. I
can see they still fetch 70-80 though which shows you how good they
are... I bought one for a relative some years ago and it was only 120
new !

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Simon

Hi

Simon L wrote on 10/10/2006 19:45:

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I did a 25 mile ride at the weekend following my Garmin Etrex (£52 off
ebay). The pc lead was stupidly overpriced (getting on for £20) and I
made a bike mount out of an old front light.

I have an etrex Legend and the interface cable. Thing is, I can't find
any decent software to upload the data tp my PC with! The thing talks to
the PC (over COM24+ because I'm using USB->Serial->GPS and have other
devices) and I've got data from it via a demo program (and indeed by
hyperterminal) but can you or anyone else please recommend a program for
retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of the data?

Thanks very much

Peter

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but can you or anyone else please recommend
a program for retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of
the data?

Memory Map. www.memory-map.co.uk

Tim
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Tim Dunne wrote on 10/10/2006 22:03:

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"Peter Scandrett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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but can you or anyone else please recommend
a program for retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of
the data?

Memory Map. www.memory-map.co.uk

Thanks, I'll check it out. Sorry, I skipped over it in the context of
the other post.

Peter

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Quoted message said:

I have an etrex Legend and the interface cable. Thing is, I can't find
any decent software to upload the data tp my PC with! The thing talks to
the PC (over COM24+ because I'm using USB->Serial->GPS and have other
devices) and I've got data from it via a demo program (and indeed by
hyperterminal) but can you or anyone else please recommend a program for
retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of the data?

Thanks very much

Peter

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Easy gps <http://www.easygps.com/>

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Peter Scandrett said:

I have an etrex Legend and the interface cable. Thing is, I can't find
any decent software to upload the data tp my PC with! The thing talks to
the PC (over COM24+ because I'm using USB->Serial->GPS and have other
devices) and I've got data from it via a demo program (and indeed by
hyperterminal) but can you or anyone else please recommend a program for
retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of the data?

Another one to try out is GPSBabel:

http://www.gpsbabel.org/

It doesn't do anything other than downloading and converting data though,
you'll need something else for creating routes and plotting tracks (there
are various web-based applications for doing this for instance).

Anthony

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Memory Map. www.memory-map.co.uk

Thanks, I'll check it out. Sorry, I skipped over it in the context of
the other post.

I use it with a GPSMAP 60CS - it logs all my rides which are uploaded to
memory map. A screen shot of it in use with a 1:50000 OS basemap can be
found at http://www.nervouscyclist.org/mmap.jpg - the heavy red line is part
oif the route I rode. Shown is an altitude and speed profile.

Tim

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on the 7:10. And the lord said let there be commuters...' - Thea Gilmore
Look, mum, an anorak on a bike! Check out www.nervouscyclist.org

dkahn400 said:

Quoted message said:

i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a cheap handheld gps
from . i normally dont follow my map as well as i should do and end
up getting lost in some field or wood .and having to back track . any
suggestions

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=gps+handheld

Comes with free Peter Turnbull...

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<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Drugs are good, except when they kill you.

Dave Larrington said:

dkahn400 wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=gps+handheld

Comes with free Peter Turnbull...

As a matter of fact I've just acquired one. (Cheap GPS from eBay that
is, not navigationally challenged long-distance cyclist). See eBay item
110038692235 for illustration of text book sniping technique.

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Dave...

Anthony Jones said:

Peter Scandrett said:

I have an etrex Legend and the interface cable. Thing is, I can't find
any decent software to upload the data tp my PC with! The thing talks to
the PC (over COM24+ because I'm using USB->Serial->GPS and have other
devices) and I've got data from it via a demo program (and indeed by
hyperterminal) but can you or anyone else please recommend a program for
retrieving (in particular) tracks, amongst the rest of the data?

Another one to try out is GPSBabel:

http://www.gpsbabel.org/

It doesn't do anything other than downloading and converting data though,
you'll need something else for creating routes and plotting tracks (there
are various web-based applications for doing this for instance).

I've been using Gmap Pedometer. This allows you to plot a track using
Google Maps. A bookmarklet converts the plotted track to a gpx file.
Gpsbabel converts and uploads the track to the GPS. Works very well,
and all free.

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Dave...

dkahn400 said:

I've been using Gmap Pedometer. This allows you to plot a track using
Google Maps. A bookmarklet converts the plotted track to a gpx file.
Gpsbabel converts and uploads the track to the GPS. Works very well,
and all free.

I knocked together something similar a little while ago that also plots
speed and elevation graphs. Since I procured a copy of MemoryMap halfway
through writing it, I lost interest, so it's rather buggy and almost
certainly only works in Firefox (1.5). If anyone finds it useful I might
fix it up. Example here:

http://antjones.ath.cx/gps/tracks.html?gpxUrl=gpx/2006-05-04.gpx

There's also something for creating routes:

http://antjones.ath.cx/gps/routes.html

Anthony

On 11 Oct 2006 03:26:39 -0700, "dkahn400" <[email hidden]>

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Dave Larrington said:

dkahn400 wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=gps+handheld

Comes with free Peter Turnbull...

As a matter of fact I've just acquired one. (Cheap GPS from eBay that
is, not navigationally challenged long-distance cyclist). See eBay item
110038692235 for illustration of text book sniping technique.

Is this to replace the one that had both functions you had on the Alan
Furley last year? (Scene: dkahn with homebrew handlebar mount gps,
goes steaming past your truly. Some miles elapse. Dkahn with homebrew
handlebar mount gps goes steaming past yours truly _again_ without
having been overtaken by yt.)

Tim

dkahn400 said:

Google Maps. A bookmarklet converts the plotted track to a gpx file.
Gpsbabel converts and uploads the track to the GPS. Works very well,
and all free.

I wrote http://gpsplanner.net for planning.

I also use the excellent http://www.gpsvisualizer.com for plotting data.

Jon

Tim Hall said:

Is this to replace the one that had both functions you had on the Alan
Furley last year? (Scene: dkahn with homebrew handlebar mount gps,
goes steaming past your truly. Some miles elapse. Dkahn with homebrew
handlebar mount gps goes steaming past yours truly _again_ without
having been overtaken by yt.)

Yes, that was my old Garmin 97. The size and weight of a half-brick, it
eats 4 AA batteries every 4 hours, takes 15 minutes to acquire its
position, rarely has an estimated postion error less than 160 feet,
loses the signal every time it passes under a tree, and has
insufficient memory to store a detailed route. The Geko 301 is a
different kettle of fish.

The 97 was very good for gliding though, where tasks are usually simple
triangles and there is a perfect view of the sky.

I used it on the Alan Furley as an (unsuccessful) experiment. I did
carry it on several subsequent rides, but I only put in the controls
and infos as waypoints, fishing it out only when I was completely lost
^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h temporarily uncertain of my position.
This once lead to a heated difference of opinion with Peter Turnbull so
that we ended up heading off in different directions. Peter declared
that the GPS must be wrong as it was pointing us towards Reading which
lay in the wrong direction entirely. I next saw him in Reading town
centre, going in the opposite direction.

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dkahn400 said:

I used it on the Alan Furley as an (unsuccessful) experiment. I did
carry it on several subsequent rides, but I only put in the controls
and infos as waypoints, fishing it out only when I was completely lost
^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h temporarily uncertain of my position.
This once lead to a heated difference of opinion with Peter Turnbull
so that we ended up heading off in different directions. Peter
declared that the GPS must be wrong as it was pointing us towards
Reading which lay in the wrong direction entirely. I next saw him in
Reading town centre, going in the opposite direction.

Was that the South Bucks Winter Warmer? If so, one has to wonder how either
of you ended up in Reading ;-)

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Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
I like maps, me.

Dave Larrington said:

Was that the South Bucks Winter Warmer? If so, one has to wonder how either
of you ended up in Reading ;-)

Yes. I think we passed it on the wrong side.

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Dave...