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Apr 12 / 4:34am

Less tabs is more

GPSLog Labs has a new "Organize" tab, this is a page that will show your most important and relevant tags, places, routes and selections for quick and easy access.

You can get to all of the information that was on the old Tags, Places, Routes and Selections tabs from the new tab so they've been removed.

The "importance" algorithm tries to weigh up the number of times the item has been used, the total distance and how recent the last activity was.  This won't work perfectly, so you can choose to "pin" your favourite items to the top of the list for quick access.

-- Tom

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Nov 15 / 1:15am

Fancy route selection dialog

I've just updated the select route dialog when editing the processed activity for an uploaded log to make it nice and graphical, instead of an unclear dropdown list:

This will show the thumbnails for each route to help identify them, and also highlight in green the routes that are closest in length to the logged activity.

If you've assigned tags to the activity, the possible routes will be filtered.  You can click the Show all routes link if you need to see other routes.

-- Tom

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Nov 14 / 1:25am

Tag and route inference

GPSLog Labs has always made some basic attempts to automatically assign a route for a log segment if it can:
  • If there is a single route between the start and end places of the log it will be assigned automatically.
  • If there are no routes between the start and end places, one will be automatically created and assigned.
And now I've just added an experimental feature that will try to guess the route after you assign a tag.  This is useful in those cases where you have 2 (or more) routes between places, say one by car and one by bike.  The above automatic assignment won't work in these cases, but if you tell it whether it was by bike or car by tagging the route, it will look again for routes using only the assigned tags.

This works in reverse too, if you assign a route that always has a particular tag associated with it, then the tag will be automatically filled in too.

So, it'll vary depending on your setup, but you should be able to select the route in many cases and have the tags automatically assigned and select the tag in other cases to have the route automatically assigned.

Let me know if you come across any issues with this change, and hopefully it makes things a little easier.

-- Tom

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Aug 23 / 10:45pm

Route wind effect prediction

There's a new Wind Effect graph on the GPSLog Labs route details Other Graphs tab.

This graph attempts to quantify the effects of wind from different directions on logs along a route. It is intended to assist you to choose a route when bike riding (either to minimise the effect of the wind or to maximise it if you're keen!)

There are 4 lines plotting the relative effect on the overall average speed for the route for different wind strengths. The units are relative and indicative only.

For example, for a log such as the following (predominantly traveling in an east-west and west-east direction):

The computed Wind Effect indicates that the greatest effect will be when the the wind is from the east or west, and the minimum when the wind is from the north or south:

For a route which has a less symmetrical profile, with long sections traveling east and south:

The computed wind effect is more even, but there is a definite advantage when the wind is coming from the west:

The wind model used is pretty primitive and assumes that a headwind has the same effect on your speed as a tailwind, but it's better than nothing.  If anyone knows of any more sophisticated models that could be used, I'd be happy to look into it.

-- Tom

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Aug 23 / 5:35am

Distance split comparison table for routes

I've added a new tab to the route detail page in GPSLog Labs that compares the distance splits for all logs in the route.

This allows you to see the speeds over each section of the route for each log.  Each column is coloured to indicated min/avg/max in white/green/yellow respectively.  This allows logs that are faster or slower than normal to be easily identified.

For routes that display pace instead of speed, the pace over 1km (or mile) is displayed, i.e. for longer splits, it is not the time to cover the whole split distance.

-- Tom

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