Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS

I bought the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS at an exhibition, perhaps camping and caravanning, or some other outdoor activities show.

A review from Bike Radar.

A YouTube video from Memory Map.

 I already had MemoryMap installed on my PC, both version 4 and version 5. This was a logical extension. It was to partially replace a Garmin Geko 201/301.

Not only did it have maps to follow but it recorded where you were and were you had been using GPS.

I had already used the Garmin Geko to great effect on a holiday in Wales, where the cottage we stayed in was well off the beaten track. Going for walks and being able to find your way back because of a track is very useful.

The position logs, or tracks recorded on the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS could be imported into the PC Memory Map software, and as if by magic, there is the timings and the route taken. I not think I had a car Satnav at the time and I did not use the Memory Map Adventurer 2800 GPS as a substitute. They are different things for different purposes.

I think I already had a i-gotU GT-120 USB GPS Travel Logger. Again a very different product.

i-gotU Travel Logger

The i-gotU Travel Logger is a small simple looking devise. 

A 2009 review of a i-gotU travel logger. It looks the same but I don't know if the model number is the same.

I have a number of GPS data logs, commonly called tracks, from a number of GPS devices.

These can be viewed in on computer programs such as Google Earth Pro, Garmin BaseCamp, and Memory Map. Although, for the latter the acceptable file format appears to be GPX.

 A case in point, our Bay of Biscay Whale Watching Trip.

According to a review of the I-gotU

The ' i-gotU GT-120, a GPS logger and receiver which records trip routes, auto add photo GPS locations and create an animated trip journal based on the data logged.'

The output was a large dataset of 2790 points.

Other metrics;

 Over 22,000 pieces of information. A rich dataset.

A dataset that I want to import into an alternative visual aid as the original is no longer trading.

The above is an extract from another article I have written about Google Earth Projects.

Lets look at what else could be none, especially before the loss of a-trip.

An additional function of i-gotU was that if you press the big button on the front of the devise, it records the data at that moment. Excellent for working in conjunction with digital cameras. 

Once the track was uploaded to a-trip a visualization of the line could be seen on a map. Then upload some photos with digital exif data including times. Note, both the i-gotU and camera have to have the same clock time. Both adjusted for the same place and therefore time in the world.

The photos are then distributed along that line based on the time the photo was taken and the nearest track point. It was not a requirement to press the button as described above to do this, as for this track the interval was 10 seconds, which equates to a reasonable accuracy of position. The photos are now geotagged ready for use in other programs.

If I recall correctly, not only were the associated photos displayed together with the line, on the map, but you could run a timeline slideshow.