Comments for DC Rainmaker

Comment on Garmin Forerunner 310XT In Depth Review by Stijn

Stijn — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:26:33 +0000

Thanks for your quick response. Since my bday is coming up next week, I decided to treat myself and go with the 910XT. Ordered it from clevertraining via your site, so some small $$$ should be coming your way now…

Comment on Garmin Forerunner 110 In Depth Product Review by Jujugo

Jujugo — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:53:07 +0000

Hi Ray,

I am using the 110 since january 2011 and I am happy with it. I do running and cycling.

I have one concern about the altitude. I do cycling with a friend having a 910XT. I always have big differences with him on the GArmin Connect website. If I have 250D+, he has 500D+ ! Like the double? I also noticed that compare to the “official D+” of a race (generally based on OpenRunner), I only have 50% of the D+ ?
Did you know that difference?

My other conclusions after 2 and 1/2 years (250x):
+ Cheap
+ Do what is supposed to do
+ still updated (firmware 2.6 just released and help the speed to get the signal and download the activities)
- No swimming allowed

Regards,

Julien

PS: Your blog is really great!

Comment on How to download free maps to your Garmin Edge 705/800/810 by Eli

Eli — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:38:22 +0000

Short answer, garmins will be more consistent quality for all areas of the map while OSM can be much better for some and worse for others

The free ones are mostly all based on OSM (see my comment a few up from here) As to the differences between OSM and Garmin. OSM depends on volunteers to make, fix and update the maps. So if you bike in an area with OSM contributors then the maps will be very good and will have updates as soon as a change happens but there is also the chance that OSM volunteers don’t care about a certain area.

Garmin makes a commercial map so when that data is being compiled they mostly don’t play favorites so all areas get the same treatment so everything will be covered and updates take longer.

Comment on How to download free maps to your Garmin Edge 705/800/810 by RickH

RickH — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:17:54 +0000

I have the 705 and spent a weekend recently trying to get open maps on my device until I saw this site. Very grateful for that and now the open maps are installed.
I purchased the Garmin maps some 4 years ago with my unit but Garmin will not upgrade the card, only sell a new one and for Australia they are somewhere in the order of $185. Not only that, due to the ever expanding urban sprawl, a lot of new suburbs with streets are not on the maps but, they are with the Opensteet maps.
So, in short it was worth the trouble. DC’s tutorial was inspirational and informative but, after all that I see Garmin has an 800 at an unbelievable price, unfortunately, for US and Canada only (groan).
DC, thank you for your writings.

Comment on Polar RCX3 In-Depth Review by Sean

Sean — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:47:42 +0000

Deirdre, the RCX3 / 5 don’t feature altitude on the wristunit. You can view the alttiude profile and the total ascent / descent on polapersonaltrainer.com after upload.

Comment on Polar RCX3 In-Depth Review by Deirdre

Deirdre — Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:08 +0000

Please can you tell me if the rcx3 or rcx5 shows altitude /ascent and decent when running or cycling