January track

pseudomammal gave me a little DG-100 GPS tracker for Xmas. It has no display, but two far better things: negligible weight and an outstanding chipset. After a few hours of thrashing buggy C (work redone by someone else a week later), it was spitting out eerily accurate tracks. With a clear view of the sky and not too much metal around, it’s sub-meter; under heavy trees or in the RF canyons downtown, it’s 10-meter or so. The project, obviously, is spooling it all into a handy database and working on things like automatic photo tagging, hours walked per day, and path smoothing. But for now, just the above: everywhere I’ve been in Portland proper this month, minus a few trips I’ve greened in where I forgot to bring the tracker, turn it on, or keep it charged. The arrows in the SE were a trip to Mt Tabor which would unbalance the map.