I was quite happy with the
real-time map from the hike to Preikestolen yesterday. There were some issues with the SPOT Satellite Messenger I'll write about later. First I want to make a second test on a biking trip to Sjernarøyane archipelago.
We'll bring a normal GPS on the trip, to be able to check the accuracy of the SPOT Satellite Messenger.
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We'll start biking about 9:15 am (Central European Summer Time) Sunday June 15th. New positions should appear on the map as we bike (every 5 minutes), but you still need to refresh the page to get new Instagram photos.
Update: Test results
I'm much more satisfied with the performance of my SPOT Satellite Messenger on this trip. I brought with me a Garmin GPS to get the full track of the biking trip, and it's shown as a blue line on the map.
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| The track shows an overlap between the SPOT positions and the Garmin GPS. |
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Automatically retrieving place name, terrain type, altitude and weather works.
The weather forecast is not always correct, but quite good! |
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Not all Instagram photos are correctly positioned.
I will try to turn on the phone GPS if the mobile coverage is poor. |
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| The maps looks crowded with many photos. I'll try to adjust the thumbnail size. |
Overall, quite happy with the test results! :-)
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