Fun With GPS

December 15th, 2006

Every year my family goes out the day after Thanksgiving to cut a Christmas tree.  This year I took along my shiny new GPS unit (courtesy of Jamie and pals).  I set it to follow our tracks and then just let it run in my pocket.  Now that I am done with class I took some time to play around with the data.  I pulled the data down and pushed it into Google Earth.  Here is the result:

The results are really fun.  The long line on the bottom is us driving in.  We went on foot starting at the south west corner and then walked about a mile total.  It shows that we pretty much ended up where we started.  It will be interesting to see after a couple of years if there is any trend to the time and distance it takes us to find a tree.  It is really amazing to me how well the different technologies come together.  I can’t wait to take the unit out skiing with me.  It will be really fun to see how far I ski and how much I stay on particular runs.

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