Some of you may know that I haven't always been a bike mechanic, I have an extensive technical background in vehicle (mostly aircraft) simulation. Yesterday I happened across a website that will map any bike ride that you want to put in, similar to mapmyride and other online mapping tools.
http://ridewithgps.com/
What's exciting about this one is that it will output the course coordinates if you want to use them for other things. In my case I've written a bike simulation that calculates power required on a given route for different types of bikes (specified by weight, drag coefficient, rolling resistance, mech efficiency) and riders (specified by power, weight, etc). There was a little bit of finagling required to get the data in the format I needed, standard format is lattitude/longitude/altitude and my program uses x/y/z in ft. Here are some screen shots of the online program and the output of my processing program (written in QuickBASIC with output in Excell-ready format).
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| GPS track in Google Maps from Positive Spin to Cheat Lake |
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| Excel plot of dist vs alt for same route processed from .tcx output file |
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