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I spent this weekend continuing my support for OpenStreetMap. This really is a fantastic community effort. After scanning around Perth I noticed there were lots of suburbs either unmapped or where the major roads were mapped, but unnamed.
A total of 5 hours of time over the weekend and now
North Perth – Mapped and all roads [...]
Filed under: cycling | Tagged: 2009, cycling, GPS, iPhone, MotionX, OpenStreetMap, Perth, Western Australia | 6 Comments »
It appears the MotionX elevation update is definitely an iPhone issue and not MotionX after more testing. Also it does appear that the iPhone accuracy gets better when you’re out in the clear. Mapybe the iPhone’s satellite reception isn’t that great!?
During yesterday’s ride out to the hills, I recorded this elevation profile with MotionX and [...]
Filed under: cycling | Tagged: 2009, cycling, elevation, GPS, hill climbing, iPhone, MotionX | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: cycling | Tagged: 2009, cycling, garmin, GPS, MotionX, OpenCycleMap, OpenStreetMap, Perth, Western Australia | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: cycling, iPhone | Tagged: 2009, cycling, garmin, GPS, iPhone, MotionX | 2 Comments »
My Garmin seemed to come to life when playing around yesterday, so this morning I thought I’d
A. See if it would work for a whole commute
B. Compare it’s data to that of MotionX
The results are interesting, but reinforce my concerns that the elevation from MotionX is complete rubbish. I’ll email the developer to see if [...]
Filed under: cycling, iPhone | Tagged: 2009, cycling, elevation, garmin, GPS, iPhone, logs, MotionX, training logs | 5 Comments »
In my previous post I wrote about the demise of my Garmin Edge 305. While I’m waiting upon Garmin to help me resolve this issue one way or the other, I need another means of logging my rides. Of course the other device I have with a GPS is my iPhone. I’ve bought several [...]
Filed under: cycling, iPhone | Tagged: 2009, cycling, garmin, GPS, iPhone, logs, MotionX, training logs, twitter | 35 Comments »
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