In his second column for Engadget, Phillip Torreone has produced comprehensive instructions on how to translate exercise data captured by a Garmin Forerunner 201 into overlays for satellite photos. This article is really an elaboration on what he told me when he announced the Runner Art Project. But, he’s put together instructions that pretty much anyone can follow, if they are motivated enough to get involved in what I’d have to refer to as “geek training” for lack of a better term.
A couple of comments on what Phillip is doing:
- I think he’s pretty much staked out the high ground in terms of providing information about uses of the Garmin Forerunner 201 to the running community. If I get involved in this, I might have to spend more time on cycling applications.
- I look at the columns that Phillip submitted this week and last week to Engadget, and I think, these are great, but why not use the Extended Entry field in Movable Type for part of each of them? I mean articles that are that long, no matter how good they are, really break up the flow of the page.
- Phillip’s done an outstanding job pulling these resources together. I don’t think anyone could make these instructions more understandable than he has.