I have a Garmin Etrex Legend GPS device on my bike. It tells me things en route but mostly I use it to download the actual track I leave on my bike rides. As I've mentioned my GPS map software dates from 2000 and is badly outdated.
So after I do a ride I can download my tracks and compare it to a Google map satellite map for total accuracy. There are a lot of places I go that weren't there in 2000.
So I rode the Farmers High Line Canal through Westminster, Northglenn and Thornton recently.
Towards the end of the FHC the trail splits in two, the Farmers High Line Canal (FHC) and the Lee Lateral Ditch or (LLD).
So I rode out to the end of the LLD and back to the trail junction.
I rode to the end of the bike path on the FHC then back because according to my GPS there were no roads anywhere near by, but I could see there was a subdivision with many homes there.
When I got home I looked at my GPS tracks and noticed the LLD and FHC end near each other. I had the Google Satellite map on and I punched in the GPS coordinates from the end of each trail to find the way from one to the other. Next time I can describe how to do a FHC > LLD loop.
So I put in the coordinates and hit search route and Google gives you three options, Route by car, public transit or walking.
So imagine my surprise when I saw a fourth option, bicycle.
So I clicked bicycle and found an easy short route between the FHC and the LLD. The route was shown in blue but as I watched as a spiderweb of green lines started to appear across the map and as I zoomed in on them I found they were bike paths. Google maps does bike paths!
Sweet. Next time I'm at the end of a bike path I can find find a connecting path.using googlemaps and a smart phone.
What an age we live in.
So after I do a ride I can download my tracks and compare it to a Google map satellite map for total accuracy. There are a lot of places I go that weren't there in 2000.
So I rode the Farmers High Line Canal through Westminster, Northglenn and Thornton recently.
Towards the end of the FHC the trail splits in two, the Farmers High Line Canal (FHC) and the Lee Lateral Ditch or (LLD).
So I rode out to the end of the LLD and back to the trail junction.
I rode to the end of the bike path on the FHC then back because according to my GPS there were no roads anywhere near by, but I could see there was a subdivision with many homes there.
When I got home I looked at my GPS tracks and noticed the LLD and FHC end near each other. I had the Google Satellite map on and I punched in the GPS coordinates from the end of each trail to find the way from one to the other. Next time I can describe how to do a FHC > LLD loop.
So I put in the coordinates and hit search route and Google gives you three options, Route by car, public transit or walking.
So imagine my surprise when I saw a fourth option, bicycle.
So I clicked bicycle and found an easy short route between the FHC and the LLD. The route was shown in blue but as I watched as a spiderweb of green lines started to appear across the map and as I zoomed in on them I found they were bike paths. Google maps does bike paths!
Sweet. Next time I'm at the end of a bike path I can find find a connecting path.using googlemaps and a smart phone.
What an age we live in.
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