Comments on: how can i use my gps when skiing?

Question: how can i use my gps when skiing?

donbing — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:37:17 -0800

I have a pocket pc and gps device and i'm off to switzerland skiing over new year, is there some way that i can combine my favourite geek toy with my favourite sporting passtime?

ideally i want to be able to follow myself on a piste map, maybe also cool stuff like see how fast i can go/how far i'v travelled.

i have igo on my pda but this only has roads/towns on it making it kinda useless for tracking where i am on a mountain.

anyone know of any cool software, maybe OS maps or something with the topography of the swiss mountains?

By: neilkod

neilkod — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:04:37 -0800

motionbased.com

By: rachelv

rachelv — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:23:47 -0800

There's some info on a guy who did this in Utah here: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/04/ski_snowbird.html

By: mr_silver

mr_silver — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:24:01 -0800

VisualGPSce is a free PocketPC application that displays GPS data graphically as well as record the raw GPS data (NMEA 0813) to a file.

You could take this data, convert to a Google Earth data file (kml?) and look at where you've been skiing.

By: blue_wardrobe

blue_wardrobe — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:53:11 -0800

What about geocaching in or near the ski slopes?

Here is a list of known geocaches in Switzerland.

You don't strictly need the map data -- just the coordinates. If you use a paper map to complement the GPS, make sure you set the GPS and the geocache website to use the correct datum point.