More fun with GPS gadgets
Do you want to see what I got up to on my lunch hour?
This:
Because I've not got hold of Tom Tom for my phone yet, I was hunting about for Symbian 60 programs to test my GPS receiver with, and came across Phone2GEarth. It's a novel little program that periodically polls your GPS receiver and records your location to a track file. It then outputs the track file in a format readable by Google Earth.
The picture above is just a screenshot of the track displayed in Google Earth, which lets you tilt and zoom around to see it from any angle. Zooming in shows an impressive level of accuracy to the data, it's detailed enough to distinctly show which side of the road I was driving on (the left, before you ask!).
This:
Because I've not got hold of Tom Tom for my phone yet, I was hunting about for Symbian 60 programs to test my GPS receiver with, and came across Phone2GEarth. It's a novel little program that periodically polls your GPS receiver and records your location to a track file. It then outputs the track file in a format readable by Google Earth.
The picture above is just a screenshot of the track displayed in Google Earth, which lets you tilt and zoom around to see it from any angle. Zooming in shows an impressive level of accuracy to the data, it's detailed enough to distinctly show which side of the road I was driving on (the left, before you ask!).
As much as I love them, I'm not sure I'd like that
Anyway I know what you did this lunch time you told me.
It's not something I'd especially use in anger, but I'm not at all worried about Google finding out where I went to lunch through this, even if they could. Apple can't find out your dinner plans by reading through your Tiger Mail. :-)
I know - it's almost like I did it on purpose eh? ;-)
http://www.garmin.com/products/forerunner201/
Its brill, I never have to guess how far ive run etc :-) and if I did get chased by a mad dog at least my surviving family members can map my exact final steps.
Rich x
Ps - forgot my pass word again hence anonymous :-P
Do you get many bears in Kings Lynn then Becky?
Lipstick, nail polish (two kinds), eye shadow (the expensive kind), etc. I was also on a major clothes hunt for Transpocalype: I think it will be too cold for my normal dress code (short & clubby). ANYWAY: there was this darling hat, and a gorgeous wide belt, that I thought "hmm; I'll pop back later and pick those up". Could I find them again two hours later? No I could not, despite three repeat laps of the shops. But with Becky's Big Brother geekery, it would have been a doddle. Although I did buy some lingerie as a consolation, so it ended well :)
:-D
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