Well, having been nominated for an Lifestyle Blog award, I suppose I’d better write something about an IT Lifestyle (and yes, this is the last time I’m gong to mention it).
I try and do a walk before I start work on most days, it’s a body fitness thing mainly, but it’s also good for the brain.
Recently I’ve been trying to estimate how much I walk. It’s too easy to short-change myself when I’m busy so I wanted something that I couldn’t kid.
I didn’t want to spend any money, because I’m cheap, so I wanted to use what I already had available. Then one of colleagues pointed out gpsed.com, I’m not sure whether it was Steve or Stu so I’ll credit both of them.
gpsed.com has a free client for the BlackBerry, and I have a Blackberry, so that met the criteria of free. It allows me to upload my data for the whole world to see, making it impossible to cheat myself on how far I’ve actually walked.
So I’ve uploaded some of my walks:
There you go, you all know how far I walk, or do you? I’m a bit dubious about the actual distances, the client on my BlackBerry says that I did 2.7 miles this morning, but gpsed.com says that I did 2.7 km. I’ll have to try and work out which is correct at some point, it makes a big difference.
The other thing I’ve not been able to work out is how to show you all of the walks together on one map. I can see them all together, but there doesn’t appear to be a URL for me to show them to you.
The next thing to work out is how to record how many times I do each walk. Could be a mash-up opportunity I think.
The other thing I’ve done is to start the tracking a short distance from my house, I don’t want the whole world knowing exactly where I live.
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I think you got gpsed from me, the first time I used it was to record the walk from the airport to RP. We should go for some morning walks together some time, when we are both at home.
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