The Rally Route
The Return Route
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As part of our electronics ensemble we had a Garmin II+ GPS with a Lowe High Performance Magnetic GPS antenna. The GPS was powered up in the mornings and ran continuously all day. The Garmin stores 1024 track points and we set the interval to 120 seconds. This interval was a compromise between detail and convenience allowing the Garmin to store about 34 hours of tracking data. Each night we downloaded the track points to our laptop.
| Maps |
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The Rally Route |
The Return Route |
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For those who know Street Atlas is a really bad choice since it has no data for Canada! However, it's what I have so it's what you get. |
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| Graphs |
| The following graphs are derived from GPS data. On the left side axis (red line) show average speed and on the right side axis (green line) they show degrees North latitude. An interesting visualization. At the bottom is a little more detailed discussion. |
| The Whole Rally |
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Using the location delta and time delta of each GPS sample I calculated the average speed over that interval. The GPS sample rate was about two minutes. Given that the distance is straight line distance between the two points this method will tend to underestimate the true distance traveled.
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| The Data |
| Want to do your own fun graphs? Have a better mapping program than Street Atlas? Here are the raw data files. Seem a little too raw? Let me know and perhaps I can supply a format that works better for you. | |
| Day 1: Kirkland, WA to Quesnel, BC | Day2: Quesnel, BC to Fort St. John, BC |
| Day 3: Fort St. John, BC to Whitehorse, YT | Day 4: Whitehorse, YT to Glennallen, AK |
| Day 5: Glennallen, AK to Fairbanks, AK | Day 6: Fairbanks, AK to Deadhorse, AK |
| Day 7: Deadhorse, AK to Fairbanks, AK | Day 8: Fairbanks, AK to Anchorage AK |
| Day 9: Anchorage Area | Day 10: Anchorage, AK to Glennallen, AK |
| Day 11: Glennallen, AK to Watson Lake, YT | Day 12: Watson Lake, YT to Quesnel, BC |
| Day 13: Quesnel, BC to Seattle, WA | |
