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High tech mountain biking
Hobbies - Biking
Written by Liquidmantis   
Sunday, 30 March 2008 07:42
For a while now I've been playing around with GPS logging my bike rides. This lets me map out my rides and with my heart rate equipped GPS even chart heart rate against speed and elevation changes so that I can track training. Another neat function is that I can sync my digital camera's time with my GPS and then use the resulting GPS tracklog to geotag my photos so that the location they were taken can be shown overlaid on a map. The gallery has a couple of examples already and I plan to try geotagging more of my photos, not just bike rides.

I've been using a program called RoboGEO to bulk tag my photos and export a web page and Google Earth files. Here's an example from one of my last rides in Austin:

Walnut Creak - 7.16.2007

It looks as if RoboGeo throws out a lot of resolution on the tracklog in order to decrease rendering time of the map so that's why the route has a lot of jagged points. This one has some bad data as well because I forgot to turn the GPS on until we started into the ride and I didn't clean up the extra logging as I spun around the parking lot during my cooldown.

I also created a Google Earth KMZ file that shows the actual tracklog. It's available here:

Walnut Creek 070716 Google Earth KMZ

 
Demesne of the Birthday King
Blog - Family life
Written by Liquidmantis   
Friday, 28 March 2008 14:47

Here's a shot of Fáelán on his recent birthday, standing proud and surveying the offerings that were made unto him.

His actual birthday party was held at his daycare.  Much better to let paid professionals deal with a screaming horde of three year olds than us parents.  Parenthood has already stressed my liver enough.

 
Life with a three year old
Blog - Family life
Written by Liquidmantis   
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:44

This week is both Spring Break and a conference in New York that Jody is attending. Rowan went with her so that they could have time together and see the city. So the two of them are off gallivanting around the big city and visiting the usual touristy spots. Fáelán got stuck with me.

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