BIKEPGH MESSAGE BOARD ARCHIVE

I'm really digging on the "elevation profile linked to blue dot on route" feature.

Speaking of bike routes. I love the bike pgh trails/maps google mashup, but I tried importing the kml files available for download into "my maps" on maps.google, so I can view them on my android device in the google maps app. Unfortunately, they show up all goofy, showing only a fraction of the routes per "page" instead of everything at once. Is this data available in any other format that might work better?

For a better idea of the problem, see the "bike routes" imported into google maps ( map ) The same thing happens on my phone.

I just used My Tracks on my android phone for the first time. It updates the route and saves the map on google maps and also throws it into a Google Docs sheet with speed, elevation, total time, riding time, distance, avg speed links the map. I'm guessing it updates the same google doc sheet each time.

ridewithgps.com is pretty cool... hidden features like dragging & selecting a section via the route profile... also supports HR & cadence data from garmin devices.

if you're on a mac, also check out the Ascent desktop app. very slick, nice features like rate of ascent & max 5 minute power output for a ride. imports .gpx & garmin formats, maybe some others.

This is really cool.

I've been meaning to brag about my geekitude wrt bikes and radios. I'm a ham radio operator, and there's a ham thing called APRS, which sends packets of data around on a network of repeaters and eventually to the internet. One of the types (the main type besides weather) of data it can send is GPS.

So last year I volunteered with the Pgh Marathon - they enlist like 200 hams or something. I rode alongside the lead wheelchair racer with an APRS dealie and an antenna clipped to my helmet. The central command people used my real-time data to track where the lead wheelchair was, and I had another radio they could use to talk to me when I e.g. entered a hole and they lost my position.

Anyway it's a really fun way to look back at my rides (your data points get logged by the receiving entity and some websites let you overlay them on google maps). I'm sad I couldn't take it along with me on the Spring Roll recently, as that'd be a really fun one to look back at.