The Rimrocked Blog

I brought my eeePC with me on my recent vacation to California (an eeePC is a 7″ subcompact notebook computer that runs linux), I wasn’t able to get GPS Babel running on it before we had to leave so I couldn’t upload points using my DG-100 GPS data logger while on the trip (but I really wanted to showcase my trip day-by-day on Rimrocked so I made the decision to use the manual input).

Manual input was almost an after-thought when we were first developing rimrocked as we believed that using a real-time GPS device or uploading GPX/KML from an existing file (e.g. from a GPS data logger) would be so much easier nobody would want to use a manual input feature. Boy were we wrong. It’s just so convenient to add your trip details, click the points where you were and then click “Add Trip” - I did it at the end of each day I was away. You can see them at my wife and I’s group for our trip: Cheryl and Andrew’s California Adventures.

Of course, using a real-time GPS device remains the fastest/easiest way to add map points to rimrocked as they just automagically are there when you log in after a trip (or if you set up the trip before you go others can see where you are in real-time) but given the cost versus ease of use the manual editor comes in a very close second.

So, don’t let not having a GPS device stop you from using Rimrocked - you’ll get all the functionality and ease of use by placing your points on the map manually. One feature to look forward to in regards to the manual tripinputinator (which will be forthcoming shortly) is to be able to add more points to an existing trip - look for it soon!