Simply record the GPS tracks with a GPS Tracker

Who is much mountain bike on the road or like wandering without a card, which should create to a GPS Tracker. Which can represent the travelled way as GPS tracks to your computer.

The satellite positioning system GPS has been opened for some time for civilian use. This system for the U.S. military previously reserved, whose soldiers were concerned with aid of satellites were able to determine their position in rough terrain at any time and can.

The version for the average citizen is very accurate, but is not inches-exactly contrary to the military. But such precision is also not strictly necessary for the normal use.

Meanwhile, navigation by GPS has prevailed on the roads. In cars, you can see the brackets attached to the windscreen for the GPS devices more and more. Even taxi drivers increasingly rely on the control by GPS Navigator. The fleet of the delivery driver is grateful for the services of satellite navigation, is now annoying maps at the intersections or on the shoulder.

Meanwhile, the use of GPS in the outdoor area is left not only the specialists. With the help of the GPS Tracker, amateurs to record their journeys and archive their hikes or practicable. A GPS Tracker is a small device which stores via GPS continuously collects data about the current position of the owner. These include not only distance, but also the speed, the different altitudes and the time.
Later, the GPS tracks recorded in this way can be transferred via USB cable to a computer or laptop. Some GPS trackers also have a Bluetooth interface.

The GPS tracks on the PC are stored, you can read it with the help of programs such as Google Earth or Google maps. The result is the playback of an individually travelled route that follow on the screen can be.
Another advantage of GPS tracks is that you can share them with other Outdoorfreunden. There exist numerous sites which can user GPS tracks of other users look at and download on the Internet. These distances can be then loaded on a navigation device and to the exact route used by other hikers or mountain bikers. In contrast to the GPS navigation on the roads but no friendly voice will specify the path and say: "200 metres it is to the Green Bush left in the sunflower field."