Moral dilemma – Munda Biddi

So I bought the Munda Biddi maps today. I intend to start riding the northern parts on the MTB over the next few weeks. Now, if you’ve read my post before you’ll know I like mapping and contributing to OpenStreetMap. My dilemma is this, should I trace Munda Biddi with my Garmin and map it [...]

Assembling a Mountain Bike

Hoorah! Today my new Mountain bike arrived. It’s been 2 weeks since ordering and I’ve waited patiently for it to come. I wasn’t in any particular rush but once it came today I couldn’t wait to get home and get it assembled.
5 stars to Wiggle. The bike was packaged very well in 2 boxes. The [...]

Worldwide routable Garmin Maps

I’ve discussed routable maps for my Garmin Edge 705 before and the way of downloading and even combining with topo maps. Well last week I found another fantastic site where the developer is creating routable maps for Garmin devices. But what makes this better is they are pre-packaged work with Garmin MapInstall and RoadTrip on [...]

Combining Maps on Garmin

I know I’m meant to write up a review of the shiny new toy… my Garmin Edge 705, but I’ll use it for a couple of weeks and then write up after I’ve used it for a while. However, you may be aware of my passion for OpenStreetMaps and so I bought the Garmin without [...]

Mr Grumpy goes to the hills

Today was another venture back into the hills with Craig. I was feeling up for it and chose a route off MapMyRide that another local cycling group are intending to ride tomorrow (no I won’t be doing it again tomorrow!). I uploaded the route onto my new Garmin 705 (that’s another post) so we could [...]

BikeRouteToaster – Review

I stumbled upon BikeRouteToaster quite by accident. I’m considering buying a Garmin Edge 705 to replace my 305. I was watching a great video on Youtube (found here) in which BHeiland uses the site to create a route for his 705.
So what does it do? Well it’s similar to sites like MapMyRide, but without all [...]

Garmin – redeem themselves

So yesterday afternoon I called Garmin to ‘enquire’ as to the whereabouts of my knackered Edge 305 only to lost all faith in their support. Today, I receive a brand new unit with a nice letter. Shame it had to get slightly heated, but in the end…. well done Garmin! Bravo!
So… anyone want to buy [...]

Bloody Garmin support – Edge 305

I called Garmin on 5th June and explained the issues with my Edge 305. It’s well out of warranty and they flat refused to repair it under warranty. So I agreed to pad $109 to get a refurbished one and sent my unit off. The guy in support quoted 10 days turn around. No bad. [...]

OpenStreetMap – Contributing

My recent find of MotionX got me using OpenStreetMap more and more. I’ve used it before along with it’s counterpart OpenCycleMap, but always reverted to Google due to the maps being limited. But this week, I realised that if everyone has that opinion it’ll never improve, so I’ve started contributing to OSM and it’s unbelievably [...]

MotionX Elevation – Continued

OK, so further testing. I drove around the block 3 times tonight recording the route with 3 different applications.
- MotionX
- RubiTrack for iPhone
- iMapMyRide
For some reason iMapMyRides export to GPX dropped the elevation information so I don’t have that to share. The graphs below show RubiTrack and MotionX. Both are different which I didn’t expect [...]