I have been reading the book I obtained yesterday, “Total Body Plan”. I have picked up a strong quote that I am going to stick with for the duration of my personal “body plan”… “abs are made in the kitchen”. The quote is good and helps a lot, but I have one major obstacle, the […]
With my birthday approaching quickly (tomorrow) I was eager to get my plans made and my workouts started yesterday. I was planning a nice brisk hike to inaugurate a time of physical fitness and overall health, but I got to Crowders Mountain and there was no where where to park, which meant the trails would […]
Yesterday (February 29, 2008), I attempted a new trail, Rocktop. It is a 1.5 mile strenuous trail that is mostly upward with many hazards associated with mountain climbing. The trail is quite nice. On Pinnacle you can only see the mountain ahead of you and the trees that you have already passed, but on Rocktop […]
Now that I have had a little more time to play with the data obtained during my hike on Monday, I have found a few tools that will allow me to show interesting things from the tracklogs. One of my favorite things so far is the elevation profile, which shows the change in elevation during […]
Hiking is a healthy and fun outdoor activity.
King’s Pinnacle I am a bit fatigued at the moment (woke at around 3am and then went for a hike), so I am just going to let the GPS explain everything: [click me]
I have been sitting beside my bookshelf for the past hour while working on various things online, primarily taking care of some course related stuff. The bookshelf sits in this room, usually undisturbed unless I’m pulling something specific from it, usually for research or adding something to it, usually some book I will get to […]
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 […]
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 […]