This is a sample of a tracklog being overlayed on a map, using Google Earth. This shows the best and worst of the GPS system. First of all, it provides a nice clear shape of where you travel. The trouble begins when the device records a bogus point in its log. When you see sporadic […]
Another use for the GPS tracklock is geotagging. GeoTagging uses a digital or encoding film camera’s internal clock stamp on images in the EXIF data format and the tracklog from a GPS (automatically using known time information) to match points in the GPS to images. A lot of modern utilities, including Google’s Picasa (with Google […]
There will be a full lunar eclipse for all parts of the world that experiences night at 0143 GMT (2043 EST and 1943 CST). It will occur Wednesday Evening/Thursday morning February 20/21, 2008. The full event lasts just over 3 hours, but we will experience totality for about 50 minutes. Totality will begin at 0300 […]
This entry is the 400th published entry in this blog. To celebrate this joyous, but not completely unexpected occasion, I have changed the theme of my blog. To complete this change it was required that the blog be completely rebuilt, some of the rebuild went well, other parts didn’t. Over the next few days I […]
Having no other immediate plans for the evening I began work on LiveCurt.net immediately after my last blog post, but in doing so, I have stumbled on some problems. I have to question what my target audience for my website is. Is it for the 3 or 4 individuals who check in on me occasionally […]
LiveCurt.net has been running for several months now, but I have done no development to it. I have considered numerous times copying my content from curtis.kularski.net to this domain, but I know what will happen if I do that. The copy would made and no further changes would occur. I am planning to play with […]
The most useful feature of my new GPS unit is the ability to record and transfer tracklogs. Tracklogs are a GPS-friendly way of making a note of each piece of data they create when reading their latitude, longitude, altitude and time. There are several ways this information can be recorded. Magellan uses a standard non-friendly […]
I have often been curious about GPS receivers, but could never justify one until recently. I found a good deal on this Magellan eXplorist 210 unit and I am planning to do a lot of hiking this year. I will be able to store all of my hiking trips in files and then use software […]
To make a change to your life, the first step is to decide to change.
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