Note to self # 02: importing GPS tracks and points into gis

If you, after changing the projection of GPS tracks and importing them into arcgis, think that not all points have been exported, try zooming to the full extent of the layer. The waypoints haven’t “miraculously disappeared, I swear”, they are just outside of your current view extent.
Future self, remember this:
a) There’s a difference between trackpoints [...]

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garmin chicken unibrow??

A lost chicken with a unibrow in need of a Garmin GPS? Naaah.
My my, those are some strange search terms. Few days have passed since I posted lyrics and links to the two Garmin commercials. Lots of people visited and I had some fun with the words that people used to find that blog post. [...]

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give a, give a, give a, give a Garmin

There are these two Garmin commercials for Nűvi… holiday edition. Which I just love.
Commercial number 1

Where’s Shopping mall
There’s Shopping mall
Things that are small
Bob’s big and tall
Where’s Chinese Food
There’s Chinese Food
Spicy Chicken Wing
Chicken Almanding
Ding dong, ding dong
Traffic’s a mess, there no distress
Find a new way, with no delay
Bluetooth is on, call the [...]

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hey, what are you doing in my gps?

Did you know, that your GPS receiver has a hidden feature*? I bet you didn’t. Here is how you get it:
1. Make sure your GPS receiver is turned off.
2. Look into the screen.
3. Do you see yourself? Isn’t it cool? :-)
* yeah, I know…. maybe we should call this “random thing that amuses you for [...]

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GPS table

A GPS receiver is integrated in the table and of course, it works (shows geographic position) only when it gets signals from satellites. This means that a table indoors would be unhappy. When it can’t get a signal it displays a message that it’s lost. Poor poor table. To make it happy you take it [...]

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Oops, wrong turn.

I live in an old medieval town with narrow, zig-zagging streets (imagine Venice, just without water canals). There is a logic in the ground plan: two main streets with lots of smaller, more or less perpendicular streets. No matter where you go, you always end up on the coast. Yet, tourists seem lost and frequently [...]

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He said I have a nice sky

Remember that Peanuts comic, when Woodstock comes and says to Snoopy that he has a nice sky? I like it. :)
The sky is great. Especially when there are lots of visible satellites for my gps. Lots of visible satellites means greater gps accuracy, which is always good. Satellites can also be tracked. Here for example. [...]

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How to take a screenshot from your Garmin GPS receiver

There’s an easy way to take a screenshot of the GPSr. And you don’t have to worry about flash or your face being reflected in the screen.
1. Download DNR Garmin and install it.
2. Connect your GPS receiver to your computer
3. Open DNR Garmin, click on the GPS at the top and then select Garmin Screen [...]

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GPS knows not

My Garmin eTrex Legend has fishing and lunar tables. It can tell you when the sun will set, when the moon looks like a cookie and even draws you the position of the sun and moon. You can even make that play and watch the moon move. What really amuses me are the fishing and [...]

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