Capturing the moment

[GoldOxide_imp]

I often use an app called "Galileo". It's a GPS tracker that lets you record way-points and tracks your movements while recording distance, speed and altitude. Afterward, you can review your route in map view with color coded overlays of speed and elevation. It provides a summary of time, distance, altitude and speed. You can export the trips as GPX, KML, CSV, or share it as a URL.

Hit the record button, start some music, and go. Galileo runs in the background and uses offline maps.

Speed overlay:


Altitude overlay:


Trip summary:

That's the way you do it.

Google Maps can do similar, although I like what you presented.

Applications like these are favourites for long distance cyclists who also overlay their heart rate, calorie burn, cadence, and so on.

[Cormanus]

Google Maps can't keep track of where you've been can it?

[Blockhead_imp]

Google Maps can't keep track of where you've been can it?

Haha...if it does that would make some folks a little nervous I would bet!

[jtopiso_imp]

Google Maps can't keep track of where you've been can it?

Haha...if it does that would make some folks a little nervous I would bet!

Haha...if it does that would make some folks a little nervous I would bet!
https://www.androidcentral.com/how-view-...oogle-maps

[Rocky_imp]

The only things I keep track of is mileage for oil and filter changes and the ages of tires and batteries.
I just ride and enjoy.

[GoldOxide_imp]

Yes, you have to enable it (or disable it ).

[rotor]

A word of warning

egleaves, I wonder what happens when law enforcement trawls back through the records of trips and finds evidence that a person was, shall we say, slightly less than compliant with all elements of the traffic code? Is the evidence of the app sufficient to cause one grief?

jodtek, I have used an app called 'Eat, Sleep Ride' which captures a lot of the same stuff as 'Galileo'. They're a bit of a community. See https://eatsleepride.com/ Nowadays I just use a spreadsheet to keep a record of fuel consumption, kilometres travelled, dates, destinations on multi day trips etc. I now have it reasonably well automated so it generates running totals of kms ridden each year and stuff about which I've no idea why I'm interested.

By the way, one interpretation of what it really means if jodytek becomes zerotek may be a tad alarming.

In most jurisdictions, this is not happening - yet.
However, in civil litigation - divorce cases specifically - mobile devices, login credentials and encryption keys are frequently subpoenaed in order to prove infidelity.
While the demand for production of encryption keys can be fought by a defendant in a criminal case, in civil litigation it will invariably result in a contempt-of-court decision.

Just saying. (I.e., if you are playing with fire, leave your cell-phone at home .

[GoldOxide_imp]

... the cost of freedom, buried in the ground.

[jtopiso_imp]

A word of warning

egleaves, I wonder what happens when law enforcement trawls back through the records of trips and finds evidence that a person was, shall we say, slightly less than compliant with all elements of the traffic code? Is the evidence of the app sufficient to cause one grief?

jodtek, I have used an app called 'Eat, Sleep Ride' which captures a lot of the same stuff as 'Galileo'. They're a bit of a community. See https://eatsleepride.com/ Nowadays I just use a spreadsheet to keep a record of fuel consumption, kilometres travelled, dates, destinations on multi day trips etc. I now have it reasonably well automated so it generates running totals of kms ridden each year and stuff about which I've no idea why I'm interested.

By the way, one interpretation of what it really means if jodytek becomes zerotek may be a tad alarming.

In most jurisdictions, this is not happening - yet.
However, in civil litigation - divorce cases specifically - mobile devices, login credentials and encryption keys are frequently subpoenaed in order to prove infidelity.
While the demand for production of encryption keys can be fought by a defendant in a criminal case, in civil litigation it will invariably result in a contempt-of-court decision.

Just saying. (I.e., if you are playing with fire, leave your cell-phone at home .

In most jurisdictions, this is not happening - yet.
However, in civil litigation - divorce cases specifically - mobile devices, login credentials and encryption keys are frequently subpoenaed in order to prove infidelity.
While the demand for production of encryption keys can be fought by a defendant in a criminal case, in civil litigation it will invariably result in a contempt-of-court decision.

Just saying. (I.e., if you are playing with fire, leave your cell-phone at home .
Regarding proving "wrongdoing" in traffic, I don't think it could be accepted as evidence. The (sometimes) small location error of GPS means the error in instantaneous speed can be huge.
If you walk while logging your GPS location, and if you are "miss-located" by 40 meters for an instant, but then your position is corrected in the next second, the data will show that you have covered 40meters in one second (which is about 90mph).

So trackers make assumptions and smooth out "non-sense" data, but they are not very reliable for some uses.

[redbirds_imp]

What's an app?