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 [...]

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 [...]

An odd week

I’ve not updated for a while but thought I’d just post a few things that have been going on. Work’s been taking most all my time over the last week. I managed to cycle for 4 days last week. I got soaked twice a day every day which introduced new challenges. I’ve never cycled through [...]

Mapping Perth

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ride the city: Review

I stumbled upon this site earlier, Ride the city
The site’s intention is to provide the site user with the safest bike route between 2 addresses or points in New York City. I’ve played about with addresses in NYC and I like this site, but I’m not sure why the developers have chosen to limit their [...]

Rubitrack – Review

Continuing my series of reviews of the major cycling log solutions this review focuses on Rubitrack for OSX from toolsFactory software. Rubitrack is the last of the desktop based solutions I bought after it’s release late in 2008. Aesthetically it’s very pleasing indeed using a candy like UI.
Like most if not all of the desktop [...]