If you want to know if you enjoy where you live and can really call it home, spend 17 days and 4500 miles driving across the country and back. If, like me, you are utterly relieved and simultaneously overly joyful when you cross your state line again, then chances are that you like where you […]
mapping, photos, storiesCheck back at this post each day to see the progress we’ve made as we raft and kayak our way down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River! We launch on Friday, 6/26, take out on Thursday, 7/2, and will then kayak for a few days near Jackson, WY before returning to Colorado. Update 6/3/09: […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, SPOTEdit 5/21/2009: The G.E. plugin is killing performance on my PC and since it wasn’t too impressive, I have removed it from this post. It is now incredibly easy to embed Google Earth into a blog or website, with the results that you see (maybe) below. However, I’m not sure how effective of a tool […]
digital, mapping, webThe weekend began with yet another April blizzard along the Front Range, but ended with warm, sunny weather in the Utah desert! I began Friday (4/17/09) by battling awful road conditions through Clear Creek Canyon and up I-70 and was treated to lack of heat in the van during the blizzard as my thermostat decided […]
gps, mapping, outdoors, photos, stories, videoGeotagging is basically the process of associating location with photographs and can be accomplished in many ways. I have developed a process using a commercial product called RoboGEO that not only geotags the photos, but also creates KMZ files that allow the photos and associated GPS data to be viewed in Google Earth. Here is […]
digital, gps, mapping, photos, webHere is a nice procedure I have developed for concatenating several days worth of GPS waypoints and tracks into a single GPX file. The end result is a compact, neat file that hierarchically contains each day’s track and waypoints with appropriate descriptions. This file can be easily shared and viewed intuitively in most mapping programs, […]
digital, gps, mappingAfter some trial and error, I have a nice method of recording GPS data on multi-day trips that is useful both during and after the trip. I typically use this procedure on backpacking, biking, and rafting trips when I will be sequentially moving from one location to another. In these case, I like to know […]
gps, mappingI am heading out to raft the Colorado River through Ruby/Horsethief/Westwater canyons at the Colorado/Utah border this weekend, and I found a cool, free website that will allow me to embed a map with my current location into my blog. It is called SPOT Trip Manager, and it seems to be a free service that […]
gps, mapping, outdoorsMy Garmin eTrex Vista Cx GPS has an expandable microSD memory card slot that can be used for storing maps. I have Garmin’s Topo maps as well as their City Navigator maps. The Topo maps are great to have when out exploring the backcountry, since they have topographical lines and various natural features that can […]
gps, mappingAfter an initial checkout of my recently built EasyStar RC airplane on Friday by Erik at LASP, I took it out Saturday morning near my house for my initial flight. The November day could not have been nicer- 60’s, sunny, and very little wind. I wound up flying for nearly an hour on a single […]
gps, mapping, plane, stories