Hello all! After some interesting information from some of you about the great GPS-chip in the Freerunner before some weeks I considered not to buy an external/additional GPS-handheld. Yesterday while surfing I found incidentially the Magellan Triton - but after detailed view of the Triton-image the "Freerunner" and all his possibilities came into my mind immediately... ;-)
I would like to use the Freerunner for biking and training-/ fitness-purposes also. The specialized reference-product for this is IMHO the Garmin Edge: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=160&pID=10885 Of course there are several things which can the Freerunner do better... Is there any bicyle-/training-application in combination with GPS under active development? I found a short thread about this in December 2007 only. The project-database shows the follwong projects: "Coach", "Mokosport", "GPS 3D Outdoor Navigation" and GPS-based "GPS Sight" and "TangoGPS". Of course I see the steady releases of the great TangoGPS but from my point of view this is only one part of such an application. Are there more training-specific applications under development? Some suggestions which features may be integrated in such a solution: 1. GPS - show actual position on map - load map (online connection) - store/use offline map - show actual track - store tracks, export tracks - save waypoints, export waypoints - load/show/import tracks - import/show waypoints - send actual position to server, HTTP-request/SMS - show actual speed - show average speed - show top speed - show distance - show altitude 2. fitness (with bluetooth heartrate-sensor) - show heart rate - save heart rate (with time/position) - show average heart rate - give signal when leaving special heart rate zone - clock: show training period - stop training period while not moving (auto pause) - save laps, show lap-specific information - export training-info (track, heart-rate/altitude/speed per trackpoint) to external application ... As far as I can see many of these GPS-functions are already possible with TangoGPS. So my ingenuous question is how would you develop such an application? Add some fitness-functions to TangoGPS (into the main application - as external modul if possible?) or create a completely new application? Is anybody working on that or interested? Sorry for my nonprofessional questions. I would like to contribute as much as I can to such a projekt. But actually I am "only" a PHP-developer with Linux-skills - and only an interested reader of the C-source... Any suggestions are welcome! Kind regards, Jens