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Never change a running system

Posted by Brian Schimmel on 6 January 2008 in English.

Mapping went well until now, though there were minor bugs in "Mobile Trail Explorer" (the Software I used to record GPS trails until now). So I decided to change to "GPS Track". After a short test I thougt this would work better. To improve my mapping performance, I took my digital camera with me, also for the first time.

Home again, I found out, that the new software doesn't record timestamps, and without these, my photos have no GPS coordinate attached - they are useless without. And what's more serious, after some minutes the program decided to change the interval of recording, so that the accuracy of my trail was lowered extremely.

Anyway, I was able to map some streets and cycleways arround Wernigerode and Darlingerode (see Map).

On the end of my trail, I was thinking "If I had a voice recorder with me, what could I do with it?" For the last 10 Minutes, I just spoke to myself as if my voice was recorded and imagined what it would be like... While riding my bike I was able to "record" about 10 times more details than I would be able to remember or photograph. From this moment on, I knew I had to get a voice recorder ... or get my mobile phone to record voice and GPS at the same time.

Location: Darlingerode, Ilsenburg, Landkreis Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, 38831, Germany
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