Tag Archive 'gps'

Ickworth figure of eight walk

Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs “A” team walk should have been led by Larry unfortunately he was indisposed so Jill took over at the last minute, hence the couple of blips on the GPS trail!
The walk was designed as a figure of eight with Ickworth Hall in the centre, acting as a rendezvous point for the [...]

Happy New Year and our first walk

A Happy New Year to all my readers Good to see that you are a person of excellent taste and recognise a real quality blog!
After spending the first 12 hours of the new year in bed with Sally we decided a walk was in order. Neither of us could face the annual new [...]

Ascent and Everytrail

After my post bemoaning the fact that the only way I had of importing trails from the Garmin Legend HCx on the iMac was through using Parallels and the Garmin software (PC only!).
Euan pointed me in the direction of Ascent for the iMac which can take in data from the Garmin and is Mac based [...]

Rambling and geotagging

Another great short walk of 13miles , this time ably led by Chris of Newmarket Ramblers. Here is the track with photographs:-

Newmarket Ramblers – Stetchworth Walk

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For anyone interested I’m using the Garmin Etrex Legend HCx. Reading the track stored on the Garmins datacard by using its USB interface attached to [...]

Free those maps

Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps.
The aim of [...]