Phil (ascentale)4d ago

@Amgine asks:

Q4a. Do you gps track your rides?
Q4b. If so, do you use a dedicated device or your mobile phone?
Q4c. Is your ride data on the web?

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Amgine (@[email protected])

#BikeNitePQ: I think this is a re-#cycle, but a multi-part question: * Do you gps track your rides? * If so, do you use a dedicated device or your mobile phone? * Is your ride data on the web? A thing I found out about years ago: #OSMAnd mobile app has a plugin for sharing your location. It requires configuring for your tracking service (I use a Nextcloud instance with a plugin to produce the secure API,) which was easy for me and fuss-free since. Credit to @[email protected] #BikeTooter

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Show threadBob Jonkman4d ago

#BikeNite A4: I sometimes track my rides with #OSMAND on my phone. Just on the phone, not uploaded to public services, unless I'm specifically riding for mapping purposes.

But OsmAnd takes too much power and kills my phone battery too fast, so I rarely track my ride unless I'm in new places, or I want to see how far out-of-the-way that shortcut really is, or it's a group ride and I have this idea I'll get around to blogging about it someday.

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Show threadBob Jonkman

Also, I have trouble separating the cycling tracking from driving tracking. In theory, the cycling tracks show up green on the map and the driving tracks show up red, but I keep doing something wrong and they get mixed up. And when I look at the tracks folder the cycling tracks are indistinguishable from the driving tracks, and everything exports/imports with no predefined colour.

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#BikeNite A4b

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Show threadBob Jonkman4d ago

One of these days I'll set up the live tracking in #OSMAND so $SPOUSE can check where I am. Nice to know there's a #Nextcloud plugin so I don't have to roll my own tracking client!

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Show threadTOϺΛZ4d ago

@bobjonkman @ascentale @Amgine @bikenite For $SPOUSES luxury of tracking kids/husbands the #owntracks is also nice and opensource solution if minimal #SelfHosting is not a problem.

https://owntracks.org/

OwnTracks - Your location companion

Your location companion

Show threadAmgine3d ago

@bobjonkman @ascentale

One thing I really like about OSMAnd is the elevation tracking and visualization graph. It is very noisy since GPS-based altitude is … less than precise, but it is very good for ride visualizationn and comparison.

A smoothing feature might be a nice improvement.