Snowboarding GPS Foo

After last year’s snowboarding GPS fun, I decided once again to carry a GPS for this year’s trip to St Anton, so I could keep a record of where we boarded.

Using Rob’s, now slightly battered, Garmin Etrex Legend C, I set the GPS to record our location every 2 seconds and put it in my jacket pocket for the day.

At the end of each day, I downloaded our traces from the GPS onto my laptop using GPSBabel, then at the end of the trip, loaded them all into Google Earth and munged them around a bit (mostly cosmetic) and saved them all into one KML file.

If you fancy having a look at where we boarded, download the KML file here (right click and save), and open it in Google Earth.

More detailed instructions here from last year’s trip to Obertauern

If you don’t feel like downloading Google Earth, here’s a less interesting 2D Google Maps version

Update: see our photos from the trip

April 1, 2008 | Tags: , , , ,  

Comments

8 Responses to “Snowboarding GPS Foo”

  1. Stuart Grimshaw on April 1st, 2008 3:40 pm

    have you seen SportsDo? looks like a pretty similar but is all web2.0 and that.

  2. deb on April 1st, 2008 5:09 pm

    Hey, just tried to sign up but still waiting for my password email :( Looks fun in concept though, hopefully they’ll let me in soon!

  3. deb on April 1st, 2008 5:39 pm

    OK, they let me in and I uploaded my tracks here: http://www.sportsdo.net/urbanwide. Shame the 3d view isn’t working but the presentation of the tracks and data looks pretty cool though.

  4. Simon on April 1st, 2008 6:53 pm

    Nice work! I remember you were worried before you left, how did the fitness stand up to the physical assault of boarding every day?

    (Is this design new? I like.)

  5. Simon on April 1st, 2008 6:57 pm

    Hang on a second… you were snowboarding? With a jetpack? Max speed : 496.44 mph *Googles the speed of sound*… Not quite, but I’m still impressed.

  6. deb on April 1st, 2008 7:08 pm

    As predicted, my fitness was pretty poor - was aching for almost a week after coming back! Didn’t help that we were ploughing through large mounds of powder most of the time though! Next time definitely warrants a bit more than 30 sit-ups as pre-holiday training! :)

    (Yes, this is a new design (well a modified template from elsewhere), and a different blogging engine. After much procrastination I decided to use Wordpress)

  7. deb on April 1st, 2008 7:19 pm

    Simon: Who says you need a jetpack for that speed! :)

    I think there are a few inaccurate points within the dataset - it’s pretty sheltered on the mountains so it tends to happen a bit and cause fun stats like that! I should probably filter them out.

  8. Simon Plant on April 19th, 2008 9:25 pm

    When you get a chance, run your GPX files through my processor and let me know what you think.

    http://www.chuffnuts.com/pistemaps

    It works out all the ascents (lifts) and descents (runs) etc, gives you distances traveled on snow versus lifts etc etc take a look.

    Si

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