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

Howard, are you able to do predominantly off-road or a 50/50 split?

I'd be happy to take the off road side of things. I could get in a couple of rides at Swinley and a trip further afield (Brecons etc) and deliver a review for the end of March? I can chuck in some road stuff, too.

It would be very interesting to see how the 800 deals with off road trails; I've only ever used the 605 for waypoint marking in the past with the standard Europe City maps.

Garmin are on the ball.

I've received the Edge 800, and just charged it.

6pt or Howard... who wants it first for a week or so? I'm at West Beers tomorrow or I can deliver it to wherever you are on Friday if you let me know.

Will PM you.

I've just purchased an Xperia active, and will be getting one of these
http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2012/01/review-of-sportypal-sony-ericsson.html

I'll let you all know how they both perform.

Garmin are on the ball.

I've received the Edge 800, and just charged it.

6pt or Howard... who wants it first for a week or so? I'm at West Beers tomorrow or I can deliver it to wherever you are on Friday if you let me know.

Think you could try wangling a Bryton 35 or 50 Velocio? Was looking at a Garmin 800/500but now see Bryton are compatible with Strava so any chance of getting to test one and do a comparison between Garmin 800 and Bryton 50 would be great.

I think Smallfurry got a Bryton, you could ask him his opinion of it?

Think you could try wangling a Bryton 35 or 50 Velocio? Was looking at a Garmin 800/500but now see Bryton are compatible with Strava so any chance of getting to test one and do a comparison between Garmin 800 and Bryton 50 would be great.

If you're willing to do the time for a review then I may be able to.

Most of these units are expensive, so they're loaners only. I have to give them back after the review.

But... if you're in the market, can wait a couple of weeks, and want to try one out and are willing to write it up. Then reviewing one gives you the ability to try it out on your own terms.

As I currently am with the 800. Going to give it a proper countryside run tomorrow, but so far am not as impressed with it as I hoped I would be. My needs are quite specific though. Will hopefully have my thoughts together next week sometime :)

I think Smallfurry got a Bryton, you could ask him his opinion of it?

Thanks, will do

If you're willing to do the time for a review then I may be able to.

Most of these units are expensive, so they're loaners only. I have to give them back after the review.

But... if you're in the market, can wait a couple of weeks, and want to try one out and are willing to write it up. Then reviewing one gives you the ability to try it out on your own terms.

sure will give it a good test, review and want to see if the £120 odd difference in price makes a difference overall. Will subscribe to the thread and keep an eye out if you have any luck in getting one to test.

Has anyone on here got a Forerunner 405CX? I'm trying to find out if it can show a compass or bearing. Can't spot anything in the manual on the website. Cheers.

Anyone managed to use the Garmin Basecamp software for planning routes on OS/X?

It appears to be a steaming pile of shite.

I gave up pretty quickly. It reminded me of using an Amiga.

I use the mapping on Garmin Connect on OSX. It's alright (a bit buggy).

I've always drawn maps in Gmap and then extracted the KML then transformed the KML to GPX via GPS visualiser then manually imported to Garmin (i.e. drag in to GPS or NewFiles folder).

I was under the impression that Basecamp was supposed to be a one stop shop for creating routes and mapping. It appears better at crashing and just generally not working though.

I always use an external service like ridewithgps or bikeroutetoaster, easier and more successful than the garmin offerings.

I think if you purchased garmin navigator maps and installed using th maps installer you can als use them in base camp. As is we're probably all on OSmaps and are trying to make routes using base maps which are obviously w*nk.

I use other people's routes.

My OSM appears in mapsource for plotting, but I prefer gmaps.

Ok, I have two .tcx files, I want to take some information from one, and some information from the other.

Is there an online editor that does this that someone can recommend?

You're going to find it hard, whilst the files are just text files (rename them to .txt and open them in your favourite raw text editor - not Wordpad or Word), the files represent a sequence of waypoints.

The best thing you could do would be to edit the TCX files, introduce pins or notable waypoints, and then save them, edit them by hand using the custom waypoints as markers of which bits to copy up to and from.

Hard to do though

Right, you can do it this way:

• Take your power output file and convert it into a .csv using WKO+
  
• Open the ride file in Topofusion
  
• Attach the power file to the ride using the automated function within Topofusion
  
• Save file as a .tcx
  
• Upload to Strava to test
  
  

http://app.strava.com/activities/5691756

I think if you purchased garmin navigator maps and installed using th maps installer you can als use them in base camp. As is we're probably all on OSmaps and are trying to make routes using base maps which are obviously w*nk.

I use other people's routes.

Lots of confusion over this on the Garmin forum. Apparently if you own OS maps or City Navigator or whatever you should be able to install them into Basecamp. However Basecamp cannot read the SD or MSD cards, meaning you have to call Garmin and get them to post you a DVD.

Seems like a fail to me.

Lots of confusion over this on the Garmin forum. Apparently if you own OS maps or City Navigator or whatever you should be able to install them into Basecamp. However Basecamp cannot read the SD or MSD cards, meaning you have to call Garmin and get them to post you a DVD.

Seems like a fail to me.

There is a way to convert the .img file on the sd card to be readable by basecamp using gmaptool and cgpsmapper.
Essentially these split the .img file into tiles and also create an installer for them for mapsource or basecamp.

Not really good enough though is it? Seems unfinished.

I'd like a small, AAA or similar powered GPS logger, the simpler the better- all it has to do is to record where I've been, then be plugged into a computer to download the file- does anyone use such a thing, and can recommend it?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/gps-travel-tracker-227620

only 20 grams