Originally posted by djwid
All the cyclocomputers look good but I do want altitude. I have a GPS from my hiking/climbing hobbies that I have been using as a cycle computer. It suffers from wet tree related problems, i.e it doesn't work in certain conditions. But I got addicted to altitude and climb profiles from it.
If, as I think you mentioned elsewhere, you only need the info once, why not just take the GPS on one trip to a given place and leave it home the rest of the time?
Maybe you have a lot more new places to deal with than I do. If I could even borrow a GPS for a few days, I could get the values for every major hill I deal with.
You also mentioned that the altitude on a GPS is the "least accurate" measurement. I ran into a guy who had one and who showed me some things on it. As it happened, he picked up a bunch of satellites and the unit said (I think) that it was accurate at that time to 11 feet. The guy said this meant 11 feet in every direction, including up and down. At another point he picked up fewer satellites and the accuracy was 33 feet.
Are you saying that he was wrong about how he described this?
Also, even if it is the least accurate part, how would it compare to getting altitude from barometric pressure? I know some GPS units have that, though I don't know if those ALSO have the other altitude measurement to compare to.
Bob