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My round, tracked by GPS

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My round, tracked by GPS

Post by muzzy »

Just for fun, I thought Id take my handheld GPS receiver out with me today to see how far I travel in a day, today was quite a light load but even so I was surprised by the distance I covered.
From leaving home on bicycle, to the office is about 0.25miles and same again back home. My round took me on 9.5miles, which includes walking up and down everyones pathways.

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It would be interesting to compare this with the info provided by geo-route...Bet they don't match up! :hmmmm
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Anyone know of any good apps for the iphone that i could do this with too? Thanks
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My round, tracked by GPS. :neutral:
That's park&loop for you. :whistle

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Isn't it strange how we will quite happily track ourselves, but if RM were to do it.........

Obviously I know RM cannot be trusted.
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pinstripe wrote:Isn't it strange how we will quite happily track ourselves, but if RM were to do it.........

Obviously I know RM cannot be trusted.
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fishtank wrote:My round, tracked by GPS. :neutral:
That's park&loop for you. :whistle
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clashcityrocker wrote: And can they cope with Cyrillic script?

SMДЯT ДЯSЗ :so there
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fishtank wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote: And can they cope with Cyrillic script?

SMДЯT ДЯSЗ :so there
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POSTMAN wrote: Just give me the nod Fish like last time and i'll...
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jonsboys wrote:Anyone know of any good apps for the iphone that i could do this with too? Thanks
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I used jog tracker that was a useful little too, it told me my walk is 6 miles long and it took me 4 hours to do !! that's 30 minutes more than the proper timings, I tried to claim the docket, they kept refusing me, so I just refused to do lapsing as I do not have the "time" to fit it in, no favours, no goodwill, no fcuk all, I now do my job within spec with no lapsing whatsoever.
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I did this on my old HTC TyTN II. I was a spare (no walk) at the time and compared many walks before and after Pegaus. I think they varied between 4 and 10 miles.
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Interesting stuff :Very Happy

I can see RM having this as part of a revision tool in a couple of years :sad:

Iam currently doing around 26k steps per day
Rows of houses all bearing down on me........I can feel their blue hands touching me.......All these things in all positions.........All these things will one day take control..........