GPS Bike Ride Plots These are GPS plots taken with my Garmin GPS III+. Most are done on my bike.
Mapped Rides HOWTO Notes	How to Map your ride Here's how I mapped my rides. I mounted my Garmin GPS III+ to my handlebars on my Schwinn Cruiser Four. It automatically tracks your journey. Before I started, I cleared the tracklog. Once I returned home, I connected my GPS to my Sony VAIO PCG-GR170K laptop running Redhat 7.2 Linux through my Socket I/O pcmcia serial port. Any serial port will actually do, but my laptop doesn't have a built in serial port, so I had to buy a separate one. I downloaded the tracklog using gpstrans $ gpstrans -dt > tracklog-20020108 This created a text file with my bike ride data points. Then, I used rideplot to turn this tracklog into a png image. [brian@laptop gps]$ rideplot --color --brush-width=2 \ --speed-cutoff=25 < tracklog-20020108 > bikeride-20020108.png I opened this image in the GIMP where I added the street names.

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