Cool TomTom Rider software

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This is very cool

http://www.webazar.org/tomtom/tripmaster.php?lang=uk

It allows you to track and log your journeys then output the data in a useful format. I put it on the Rider this morning and tracked us in the car all day - got home - opened the file in google earth and it created a route from all the logs… which is so cool in a very geeky way.

It also works as quite an advanced trip computer, giving you altitude, direction etc… more applications here

http://www.webazar.org/tomtom/plugins.php

Most impressed… am now working on how to pull that data and display on a google map online for our trip to Russia so that you can see where we are at a given time - Dakar style :slight_smile:

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And you can use Google Earth to generate a point and click itinerary

http://www.janboersma.nl/gett/index.php

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This sounds good, I had assumed, however, that this was standard on all GPS systems? The Garmin Quest / Quest2 have always been able to do this.

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yeap they do apparently… but the Tom Tom Rider doesn’t… the tracker is very cool though. Must look at the point and click google earth itn creator.

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yes it could… and I think it may be quite interesting to see where you’d been on a bender!

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It doesn’t come with a readme - how do you install the thing?

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ahh okay - the instructions are on the site - scroll down the page you donwloaded it from and you’re away… it’s right at the bottom I think.

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Matt, if you think that is geeky, yesterday I connected the laptop to the power commander on my bike (I didnt fit the PC, it was on the bike when i got it). The idea was to get a backup of the current map as I have had fueling problems recently, but the more I think about it just wanted to stand next to the bike with it connected to the laptop so I looked like I knew what i was doing!

Think I need to get out more…

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now that is geeky!

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Good find Chashy boy. Just what I need for an upcoming trip

It’s always been my grip that TomToms are crap at planning.

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you’ll have to install a cig lighter socket in your ass.

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The police use a software programme in a similer way to track where you have been/what speeds you were doing if they nick you/impound your bike (so remember to take it off if you’re pulled)

They do this to prove you were/wern’t at a particular accident/crime scene that day! Big Brother is everywhere!

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They’d have to know I was running it first :wink:

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