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It's not available at the moment (I still have work to do on it - e.g. at the moment it's hard-coded to where I think my grid is, which won't be of much use to anyone else!). But I'll let everyone know when it is available - I'll be especially interested in feedback from anyone who's latitude differs significantly from mine (For which, of course, @ITG is an excellent candidate).
Conquersize is probably do-able, but the maths is slightly different. It might have to wait until I'm more about to travel further from home (yesterday was the first time for months that I've ventured outside Tower Hamlets)
@bja61 - if it's so tight that it matters which wrist you wear your watch on, then this may not be all that much help. That would need extremely precise grid co-ordinates (and, probably, a more accurate extrapolation than I'm currently using). Still, it's another useful test-case. I've got a spot a bit like that on one of my regular routes - sometimes one side of the road gets me the square, sometimes I have to cross over.
GG: I did my one short outing of the day at lunchtime. I'm happy with the lead I've got now, so will be daring (!) to do the weekend longer run mostly out of grid to go get some diamonds in Fetchpoint. Complacency?
One winter when I was stuck to running laps of a playing field in the snow I found that my old Garmin 405 recorded a bigger loop when I was running with the watch on the inside wrist of the loop. When I turned around and ran in the opposite direction so that wrist would've been travelling further, the loops shrank, counter-intuitively. It was quite noticeable on the GPS trace when I zoomed in. I think DC Rainmaker reported something similar.
It seems unlikely to be the case now that we have GLONASS and all that whizz-bangery in our watches and can see when we crossed a road, for instance.
Fetch posted a training video about how to do comparisons. The plots from running the same course showed a fair degree of variation, so the issue will be how good the satellite tracking is. I had a ride the other day (Garmin 830 using GPS and GLONASS) and in wsw terms it had me running in the boxes alongside the path I was running along. Link here for Fetch's training video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Eo9Xmue1I
Not clever enough to embed it, key part was at 1:05.
I've read my GPS in the past to ensure recording of Conquercise squares from memory of the coordinates. Mainly on sandflats at very low tides when I might not get back there for a while! WSW squares would be well beyond memory so bring on the technology!
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