Tonight, I’ve been transferring the planned route onto my GPS.\u00a0 It’s a fairly old device with limited memory, so I’ve had to make some compromises.\u00a0 It can only store 20 “routes” consisting of 50 points.\u00a0 Having studied the maps, I decided that navigation in Scotland was pretty darn straightforward, whereas navigation through England was much harder (no bias here!).\u00a0 So I decided to spend all my GPS points on the first 7 days, using three ‘routes’ per day to pack in maximum detail.<\/p>\n
I designed the routes on mapmyride.com, which allows you to download them as GPX files – however these typically use about 300 points per day.<\/p>\n
Next, I used gpsbabel’s<\/a> “simplify” filter to get each day down to 150 points, and another filter to convert the “track” files which mapmyride provide into “route” files. Finally, I needed to split each day into three separate 50-point routes. I briefly entertained the notion of using xslt, before seeing sense and doing it in about two minutes using emacs keyboard macros.<\/p>\n So now I’m tooled up with high-res tech, ready to navigate across the country using relativistically-corrected satellite quad-lateration.<\/p>\n Here is my planned route, with links to maps showing each day’s travels:<\/p>\n d1\u00a0 (Mon) Lands End to Wadebridge<\/a> [64miles] Tonight, I’ve been transferring the planned route onto my GPS.\u00a0 It’s a fairly old device with limited memory, so I’ve had to make some compromises.\u00a0 It can only store 20 “routes” consisting of 50 points.\u00a0 Having studied the maps, I decided that navigation in Scotland was pretty darn straightforward, whereas navigation through England was much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nobugs.org\/lejog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nd2\u00a0 (Tue) Wadebridge to Great Torrington<\/a> [57miles]
\nd3\u00a0 (Wed) Great Torrington to Bridgewater<\/a> [68miles]
\nd4\u00a0 (Thu) Bridgewater to Tintern<\/a> [72miles]
\nd5\u00a0 (Fri) Tintern to Much Wenlock<\/a> [81miles]
\nd6\u00a0 (Sat) Much Wenlock to Leigh<\/a> [83miles]
\nd7\u00a0 (Sun) Leigh to Sedbergh<\/a> [77miles]
\nd8\u00a0 (Mon) Sedbergh to Longtown<\/a> [62miles]
\nd9\u00a0 (Tue) Longtown to Auchinleck<\/a> [73miles]
\nd10 (Wed) Auchinleck to Tarbet<\/a> [63miles]
\nd11 (Thu) Tarbet to Ft William<\/a> [73miles]
\nd12 (Fri) Ft William to Inverness<\/a> [61miles]
\nd13 (Sat) Inverness to Brora<\/a> [56miles]
\nd14 (Sun) Brora to John o’Groats<\/a> [63miles]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"