The Fridays Tour

[User10571]

I know exactly what you mean.....

Ummm... Stu... I never set out to do all of it.
Apples and pears, mate.

 

[StuAff]

Ummm... Stu... I never set out to do all of it.
Apples and pears, mate.

Yup, I know....but (a) I still have that feeling, despite it largely being the fault of others that I didn't and (b) the riding you did do there was hard enough I think...

 

[dellzeqq]

http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=cmmdnwlhhgvdjlfj

courtesy Chris B. Not as much climbing as I thought. Not bad for 60 miles, though.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

very grateful for these tracks. simple case of lock and load on the etrex for me, many thanks.

 

[dellzeqq]

well, Chris has made a bit of a convert out of me. I take a certain perverse pleasure in knowing the road, and relating the road to the geography of the land we pass through, and I think that can only be done by maps, but come the point where we are looking for the turns in and out of Steeple Ainderby, or looking for the left turn on to Barnard Terrace in Edinburgh, or the little track down to the path at Logierat, if I were to have you by my side, Greg, I'd be grateful.

 

[ceepeebee]

As I said in email I do actually enjoy doing it, what with my map fetish/addiction and all. Am on way in to work and am actually going to have to do some thanks to a very dull phone conference I just had, but hope to have the other days done today, if not by tomorrow for sure.

Same for the other thing too, will scope out neat options for that definitely today.

Are the gps tracks working for people's devices btw? I found the most elegant solution for iPhones was to add the tracks to my notepad in GPSies and then the app automatically finds them.

 

[StuartG]

Changing subject and apologies for not re-reading everything to find the answer. However it is to the benefit if, in the unlikely event, anyone ends up following me - what are the laundry opportunities?

I'm hoping I can get through with just one major clothes wash.

Which means I'll be bring one medium sized hard suitcase Dell - assuming you overlooked organising a formal black tie dinner and dance each and every night

 

[redfalo]

Are the gps tracks working for people's devices btw? I found the most elegant solution for iPhones was to add the tracks to my notepad in GPSies and then the app automatically finds them.

Well, they are too rich to be fully accepted my Garmin 60cs which unfortunately has a limit of 500 trackpoints per track. Hence, they are truncated. I used this tool (http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/) to directly convert Simon's directions on Google Maps into a GPX track. Those tracks contain fewer waypoints (so little that GPSies doesn't allow me to make the track publicly available) but still have enough information to get an impression about the route. we'll take

 

[ceepeebee]

Well, they are too rich to be fully accepted my Garmin 60cs which unfortunately has a limit of 500 trackpoints per track. Hence, they are truncated. I used this tool (http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/) to directly convert Simon's directions on Google Maps into a GPX track. Those tracks contain fewer waypoints (so little that GPSies doesn't allow me to make the track publicly available) but still have enough information to get an impression about the route. we'll take

Hadn't thought of that, ISTR that GPSies will reduce track points somewhere, I'll have a look when I get in to the office.

 

[dellzeqq]

Changing subject and apologies for not re-reading everything to find the answer. However it is to the benefit if, in the unlikely event, anyone ends up following me - what are the laundry opportunities?

I'm hoping I can get through with just one major clothes wash.

Which means I'll be bring one medium sized hard suitcase Dell - assuming you overlooked organising a formal black tie dinner and dance each and every night

if we ask nicely at Yeung Sing, York YHA, and Glen Bank there will be washing machines available. I'll be washing out a pair of shorts every night

 

[mcshroom]

Bikehike has an option (under options surprisingly enough) to set the maximum number of waypoints in a gpx. Just upload the gpsies track into there befre transferring to the garmin

 

[redfalo]

Hadn't thought of that, ISTR that GPSies will reduce track points somewhere, I'll have a look when I get in to the office.

How did you generate the GPX files? Is there any better automatic conversion from Google Maps than this "GMatToGPX" tool or did you have to manually redraw them?

 

[ceepeebee]

I've been doing them manually in bikehike - what I'll do for the others is restrict them to 499 GPS points.

Automatic conversions can be a little off - I've tried to do them for various work things and they've needed careful scrutiny - not sure why this would be the case as it should be simple, but no.

 

[CharlieB]

To start yet another topic within a topic, is anyone going to be doing the headcam to YouTube thing? It's just that someone asked me last night, and said they'd like to see some footage day by day.

 

[dellzeqq]

still photographs have to be the way to go. It's too long a trip to be distilled in to a video.