GPS tech (Garmin, Hammerhead, Wahoo, RWGPS, etc)

Tynan, did you ever sell this? If not, want to?

Tynan, did you ever sell this? If not, want to?

Sorry boss ! Gone, sold it to a bloke called 'Roadie' (lfgss name).

:(

Never mind, I've been playing with the iPhone;

Little ride this afternoon.

The Active Sat Map looks good - anyone know if you can use it with Memory Map for routes uploading and dl?

Geeky question, but my Garmin Forerunner 305 is driving me fucking barmy this week...

It's worked fine for a year or so, but every day this week it has set it's date for 25/06/10. It's supposed to get time and date information from the GPS signal, so how can it be wrong?

It's really annoying. When I download all my geeky data into Ascent, it adds it all to the same date, so according to my data I've done one super long ride on the 25th of June, instead of all my training runs and commuting for the week.

Ok i'm a Newbie..but I have UTFS
and am now wondering what Sat Navs Forum Members are using and their opinons of them or my choice:

Am thinking of a Garmin 605

possibly using Open source Mapping.
I'm looking to use it to capture rides i've been on,and also to download rides to do from the Net
Cheers in advance.

Good thread dredging! I was actually reading through this last night and planning to dredge it myself...

I am currently experimenting with OSM and an android phone.

If you have that available, save yourself the almost 400 notes you'd spend on the satnav.

andnav2 is the app you need off the appstore, and you can download maps so you don't need a connection.

Great for town -- just enter the address and it'll route you and do turn by turn, and if you choose to go by bike it'll prefer bike paths and back streets.

For longer rides, the best way of getting good battery life is to pick out a route at home (on the wifi or whatever), then there's an option to preload the map for that route. Do it, then turn the phone to aeroplane mode, turn wifi off etc. You can have a headphone to tell you when to turn, or you can get a barmount off fleabay for a few quid (dunno how secure this is, mine will be delivered shortly).

advantages of the 605 or 705 is the ease of use, zero hassle, the osm maps are pretty damn good for something that's free. Battery life is apparently 8hrs+, which is fine for most of us.

the garmins are shit in town

maps take so long to draw that you miss every other junction and then it just gets stuck recalculating

great(ish assuming jaygee has not created the route) out of town

the garmins are shit in town

maps take so long to draw that you miss every other junction and then it just gets stuck recalculating

great(ish assuming jaygee has not created the route) out of town
ah that's interesting to know. Do you know if they're only like that with the supplied maps, or with the OSM ones too?

not really a techy, but apparently the mapdroyd app uses vector maps which take up v little space, but the other type (whatever that may be!) is noticeably slower to draw (possibly a phone RAM issue?)

Anyone in paris got one I can try??

Good thread dredging! I was actually reading through this last night and planning to dredge it myself...

I am currently experimenting with OSM and an android phone.

If you have that available, save yourself the almost 400 notes you'd spend on the satnav.

andnav2 is the app you need off the appstore, and you can download maps so you don't need a connection.

Great for town -- just enter the address and it'll route you and do turn by turn, and if you choose to go by bike it'll prefer bike paths and back streets.

For longer rides, the best way of getting good battery life is to pick out a route at home (on the wifi or whatever), then there's an option to preload the map for that route. Do it, then turn the phone to aeroplane mode, turn wifi off etc. You can have a headphone to tell you when to turn, or you can get a barmount off fleabay for a few quid (dunno how secure this is, mine will be delivered shortly).

advantages of the 605 or 705 is the ease of use, zero hassle, the osm maps are pretty damn good for something that's free. Battery life is apparently 8hrs+, which is fine for most of us.

awesome! gonna download asap.

just looking for an app that allows you to upload a gpx file and follow that, à la garmin etrex. Not exactly maptastic, but better for the battery.

The thing I'm doing at the moment is great for getting out of the city, but harder to plot a loop -- the routing software doesn't like it, so there's got to be signal when you get all the way out there (cos the routing is done by the andnav server, i think), even though the maps are all on your phone...

complicated! still 450€ for a garmin 705, worth perservering with!!

my tracks won't let me do auto follow / navigation with tracks

neither will RMaps

trying trek buddy now...if it follows a gpx track then that's me sorted.

biketoaster and bikehike websites to draw the nice big weekend loops, export the gpx, save onto phone SD card, use trek buddy to follow on top of the osm bike-specific layer, and robert's yer mother's brother.

^ would be awesome. Keep me updated

Wannabe, I have an etrex and an Android phone w/ mapdroyd. Will test maps for food.

http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/39239/1954

oruxmaps: http://www.oruxmaps.com/index_en.html
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/74068-have-gpx-track-file-need-reader.html

Here's a fairly detailed list of Android GPS options:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/55734-android-gps-thread-all-gps-available-android-here.html

*Pocket Queries (GPX files) provide the most information--id, name, cache details, hint, and logs. But they are only available to premium Geocaching.com members.

1. Build your pocket query here: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/. Choose the "GPX" format, and select the option to have the file compressed to zip format.
   
2. Download the query after it has been emailed to you. There is an issue with downloading attachments in the android gmail program, so you should access your email from the web browser instead. Make sure the attachment goes to the /sdcard/download directory.
   
3. In GeoBeagle, click on the "Offline List" button to get to the cache list page. Click the menu button, then select "Sync GPX files from /sdcard/download." GeoBeagle will import all caches from every file ending ".gpx" or ".zip".
   As with LOC files, GeoBeagle is smart enough to only load new cache files on subsequent loads, and if you delete a gpx file from /sdcard/download, GeoBeagle will delete all caches loaded from that gpx. *
   http://www.androidfreeware.net/download-geobeagle.html
   

Wannabe, I have an etrex and an Android phone w/ mapdroyd. Will test maps for food.

http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/39239/1954

oruxmaps: http://www.oruxmaps.com/index_en.html
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/74068-have-gpx-track-file-need-reader.html

Here's a fairly detailed list of Android GPS options:
http://androidforums.com/android-applications/55734-android-gps-thread-all-gps-available-android-here.html

*Pocket Queries (GPX files) provide the most information--id, name, cache details, hint, and logs. But they are only available to premium Geocaching.com members.

1. Build your pocket query here: http://www.geocaching.com/pocket/. Choose the "GPX" format, and select the option to have the file compressed to zip format.
   
2. Download the query after it has been emailed to you. There is an issue with downloading attachments in the android gmail program, so you should access your email from the web browser instead. Make sure the attachment goes to the /sdcard/download directory.
   
3. In GeoBeagle, click on the "Offline List" button to get to the cache list page. Click the menu button, then select "Sync GPX files from /sdcard/download." GeoBeagle will import all caches from every file ending ".gpx" or ".zip".
   As with LOC files, GeoBeagle is smart enough to only load new cache files on subsequent loads, and if you delete a gpx file from /sdcard/download, GeoBeagle will delete all caches loaded from that gpx. *
   http://www.androidfreeware.net/download-geobeagle.html
   good stuff! So far, I've figured out that trek buddy has the functionality to allow waypoint navigation, and I've already figured out that there are ways of generating those things. Just trying to get maps set up in trek buddy, will have to try again tomorrow I think, my head is hurting...
   

As for the physical bit, going to try one of those cheapo eBay clamps and possibly a decent waterproof aquabox, but that may be overkill. A ziploc bag should do the trick!

Just bit the bullet and got a Garmin 605
anyone got any idea what size micro sd card to get to put the OSM maps on instead of using the Garmin supplied ones ?

problem with osm tiles is that they are often 4kb, and it seems that SD cards have up to 32kb sectors, so the file can be up to 8 times bigger on the disk than in reality...they're trying to fix that, apparently. Anyway, this place has the maps you want, and this chap is the one I'd recommend -- routable bike paths = good thing. He reckons a 2GB card for the whole of UK.

I say get the biggest card the 605 will tolerate for extra map capacity.

Thanks Wannabe
well it looks like a 4 gig card just to be on the safe side
and some downloading when i finally finish work tonite.

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA VICTORY IS MINE

Guide to AndNav2 offline plotting

and by offline, I mean online, but that you can *use offline *on your phone and thus save masses of battery life.

In short, go here to plot the route, add as many via points as you like, an end point, export that bad boy. Copy it over to your phone with a USB cable or whatnot.

Fire up your android phone, put it in aeroplane mode with the GPS on (battery saving!), on the start menu you will see SEARCH as an option

choose that, and at the top of the screen you will see two tabs, the one on the right being offline. Choose that, search the SD card for the route, and load it up.

Away you go!

don't forget to preload map tiles for the route before you go. There's more about that further up the page. If you do it for a big area that you usually ride (e.g. M25 limit) then it's worth doing properly. If you just do it every now and then, you can press menu and then preload. It will only preload the level of zoom that you are actually looking at, so zoom it in a bit first.

Hope that helps!

so I can now set up big loops, so chuffed! the home feature also works, so I can go out into the middle of nowhere, press the home button and let it route a way home before turning the aeroplane mode back on...

three hours of googling fun instead of 400 notes. Just need to sort the case now...

So, I could get the GPS files from my etrex and load them into my HTC Desire using this method?

Yup. This page suggests the format is GPX, and if that's the case, you're good to go. Better still, you can export tracks of your rides from your etrex onto your desire and follow them.

I've plotted a couple of routes online using ^^ that method, and tested one this morning, just a 25k loop with hills.

the navigation in an area I don't really know (apart from one main road) was quite tough just relying on the headphone. With the map in front of me, it'd be a lot easier.

I used a few via points, and it announces them if the announcement doesn't conflict with "in 200m turn right" or whatever.

Settings: audible warning at 200m then 100m, don't project position forwards (unless you're super fast).

It's not as quick to update your position as my tracks, for some reason.

I want to replace the TTS audio directions with beeps once I get a bar mount sorted. Then I can just glance down when it beeps and see where I'm going. Don't know if I'll have to keep unlocking it to wake the screen.

I ran andnav2 and my tracks together, as I haven't figured out how to record traces properly with andnav2.

DOUBLE BONUS -- OSM includes piste maps and mtb tracks, so you can download a piste map before you go, and then check it without having to carry about a soggy leaflet and without paying extortionate roaming charges.

Has anyone suffered a problem with using GPS with a wireless cycle computer (Cateye Strada) at the same time? When my GPS is on the bars. my Cateye records no information? They're not right next to each other......puzzled.....I've searched Google

does anyone have the garmins mapsource software that i can borrow. my cd was stolen along with my old laptop and now i need to reinstall but i cant get it unless i follow some(so far unsuccessful) tricks. live in SE but can pickup and return in most central london. thanks

bumping...

Has anyone looked into or found a solution for recharging a GPS when away from mains power and without a hub dynamo?

Most of the chat on CTC seems to be about hub dynamo