{"id":321,"date":"2005-07-12T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=321"},"modified":"2009-10-09T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T15:59:46","slug":"cycling_photography_and_gpsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/07\/12\/cycling_photography_and_gpsing.php","title":{"rendered":"Cycling, Photography and GPS&#8217;ing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken up cycling again, its been a while since I last cycled anywhere &#8211; about 8 or 9 years &#8211; and I&#8217;m surprised to see I havn&#8217;t lost much in speed etc.  I manage to do 20 km on a MTB in just over an hour and that&#8217;s with stopping and taking 99 photos too.  Usually I average around 25 to 30km\/hour which seems to be a pretty good speed to get in an urban setting on small back roads and paths.<br \/>\nI have one of these little bicycle computers but I find them a bit limiting, they are only really good for on the spot checks, no good for gauging improvement over time.  So last night I took the GPS with and imported the data into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oziexplorer.com\/\">OziExplorer<\/a> which gives me much better view of what is going on.  I can see average speeds between specific points of the route, elevation maps and with some add on tools even rate of climb\/descent.  I&#8217;ll store a track file for each time I go cycle and it should give me a good way to gauge if there are any improvement over time in my abilities.<br \/>\nThe upshot of having the cycle is that I can get places at times that I wouldn&#8217;t have had the ability to get too before, last night for instance I got <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/ripienaar\/archives\/date-taken\/2005\/07\/11\/\">some great shots<\/a> along the South Bank on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thames-path.co.uk\/\">Thames Path<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor an idea of what OziExplorer gives me here is a screen shot of the track and also speed over distance.  Click on it for a full size version.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/barrier.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/images\/lo-barrier.jpg\" border=0><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve taken up cycling again, its been a while since I last cycled anywhere &#8211; about 8 or 9 years &#8211; and I&#8217;m surprised to see I havn&#8217;t lost much in speed etc. I manage to do 20 km on a MTB in just over an hour and that&#8217;s with stopping and taking 99 photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}