This is an intentional split of the "how fast is my F18" thread...
There is a site, Motionbased, now owned by Garmin, that allows you to post and share your GPS tracks. It attaches weather/wind data to your tracks so you can compare conditions. You can sign up for free and keep up to 10 tracks. It takes a monthly fee to keep more.
See my track from last month's Green Island Race on Lake Erie at Green Island Track There are many tools you can use that help analyze your route. For sailing routes, it is really cool to use the "map player" (using Internet Explorer). Switch the background in the left frame to "photo" and select "speed" in the zones drop down. Then hit the play button.
Short story about this race are posted at My Story Other stories posted by Jamie Diamond and Mike Fahle at http://sailocra.com/
This is a screen shot from the service (Deleted by forum administrator because of over-width)... to actually use it, you must follow the link above (green island track).
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Re: How Fast is my... Share your GPS tracks
[Re: TeamTeets]
#87093 10/23/0612:36 PM10/23/0612:36 PM
Hey, I'd like to play this game too. Are we restricting this gps thread to F18's? Here's one of mine. It is on a Mystere 6.0 with no spinnaker, broad reaching:
It would be interesting to have a PC package that could take data from several GPS units and play them together...you could really see how a race plays out and would be extremely interesting....
Jake Kohl
Re: Share your GPS tracks
[Re: Jake]
#87098 10/24/0610:24 AM10/24/0610:24 AM
It would be interesting to have a PC package that could take data from several GPS units and play them together...you could really see how a race plays out and would be extremely interesting....
We already do have a place to upload *.xml files that are full of gps track records from a group event and see them play out over a back drop of google earth. Thanks to California cat sailor Glenn Brown for building this program and offering it on the internet.
He provides instructions on how to tweak your browser (IE) so that you can play your file from your own host, on his player. Once you have made it work properly, you can send him the file and he may place it on his server so that others can view it without having to tweak their browsers. Glenn's instructions
Here is an example. This is a file where we had a few boats loggning their tracks on a Catalina Island trip. Glenn Brown's gps track player
They did not get flatter. The combined seas got progressively larger as the wind increased, as far as I can remember. The cause of the 18-20 mph burst, (besides the skipper's incredible prowess) <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> is that we were arriving at "Hurricane Gulch." The topography of the Cabrillo Beach area creates a funnel of wind.
I have uploaded our complete track to include our beat up through the gulch at the Motion Based site. Here's the link: "Whisk" with no spinaker
Mike, do you think that you can go back and edit your post so that the included picture is a bit narrower? I thihnk that it is causing this entire thread to go past the constraints of my display setting and making me have to scroll left and right to read the text posts. It affects the remaining thread in its entirety and hopefully this is an ongoing thread.
It would be interesting to have a PC package that could take data from several GPS units and play them together...you could really see how a race plays out and would be extremely interesting....
I belive GPS Action Replay does that for you and it is a Java application so it works on virtually any platform. I run it on my Linux box.
It would be interesting to have a PC package that could take data from several GPS units and play them together...you could really see how a race plays out and would be extremely interesting....
I have downloaded GPSActionReplay... I already had the Java Run Time installed so it was quite easy to install. I am running WinXPro and had no problems. The generation of the polar diagram is really nice.
It would be cool to take several boats... H16, F16, F17, F18, N20, A, T, etc. on a consistent wind day and have them go through a couse intended to fill out the polar.
Mike, Ohio Former H16, H18, N20, N17, M4.3
Re: How Fast is my... Share your GPS tracks
[Re: TeamTeets]
#87105 10/24/0606:31 PM10/24/0606:31 PM
Here are two tracks for the Tri-Point Ocean Race. There are some rocking speeds coming back in from the back side of the island with the 2005, the 2006 had some great averages too.
It would be interesting to have a PC package that could take data from several GPS units and play them together...you could really see how a race plays out and would be extremely interesting....
Another useful tool when loading from different devices, or if you need to convert from one format to another is G7towin http://www.gpsinformation.org/ronh/
Mike, I deleted the picture from the message text, so this thread would fit on the screen widthwise. The same picture is still in your attachment, though.
It was me, Mary, who did the deletion, so if it is a problem, complain to me and not to Rick.