A few years ago, I went to a few OpenStreetMap mapping parties. I was lent a GPS receiver device, as I did not have one of my own and enjoyed wandering around, noting down street names and creating tracks. Most of the area where I live now is mapped very well by OpenStreetMap, so there is no need for me to create tracks for it.
Instead, I decided to log all the roads or paths I walked up during February, as I was interested in seeing them on a map.
I used a Qstarz BT-Q1000 GPS travel recorder to log the tracks. I only turned it on when I walked up roads or paths I had not previously logged.
I connected the travel recorder to my computer via USB and then copied the tracks onto my computer using GPSBabel and this command:
gpsbabel -t -w -i mtk,erase -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F out.gpx
I then loaded the tracks into GPSVisualizer. Most of the time, I copied the tracks the GPS recorder had created onto a new map, so that it all looked neater.
Map of where I think I walked in February 2011.
Individual bits of map of areas where I walked:
( Oxford )
( Bristol )
( Bath )
( Swindon )
( Didcot )
( Cheltenham )
( Kilcot )
( Newent )
( Ross-on-Wye )
( Symonds Yat )
( Puzzlewood )
( Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail )
( Gloucester )
Instead, I decided to log all the roads or paths I walked up during February, as I was interested in seeing them on a map.
I used a Qstarz BT-Q1000 GPS travel recorder to log the tracks. I only turned it on when I walked up roads or paths I had not previously logged.
I connected the travel recorder to my computer via USB and then copied the tracks onto my computer using GPSBabel and this command:
gpsbabel -t -w -i mtk,erase -f /dev/ttyUSB0 -o gpx -F out.gpx
I then loaded the tracks into GPSVisualizer. Most of the time, I copied the tracks the GPS recorder had created onto a new map, so that it all looked neater.
Map of where I think I walked in February 2011.
Individual bits of map of areas where I walked:
( Oxford )( Bristol )( Bath )( Swindon )( Didcot )( Cheltenham )( Kilcot )( Newent )( Ross-on-Wye )( Symonds Yat )( Puzzlewood )( Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail )( Gloucester )
