Adelaide to Melbourne on the Great Ocean Road

Traveling the Great Ocean Road was fun.

Driving from Adelaide to Melbourne is a long way…

Bits of the drive were very boring… long straight roads across what seemed endless farm land… on and on and on…

The Great Ocean Road was fantastic. A fun and hard drive along winding coast roads with lots of wonderful views and places to visit.

Doing the drive in winter (apart from the truly awful wind and the driving rain…) was great as we had a lot of the places we visited to ourselves. very few tourists about…

The drive also provided a great opportunity to test the mapped.at software. The conclusion is the cell (mobile) phone application is not of ‘production’ quality. I don’t know if it is the phone, the Java, or the software. I suspect it is a combination of all three.

The GPS data analysis software is still a bit buggy, and it does seem to ‘clunk’ when processing 3 days worth of GPS data… plus the resulting kml/kmz files are a bit large (my guess it is a problem of ‘redundant’ points), so this will all need some more work…

Anyway, the software did manage to produce the necessary root files, and I was able to geotag the photos, with ease, using PhotoGPSEditor…

And the route file… it can be found here. This file shows the route we took from Adelaide to Melbourne…

Kmz file: Adelaide to Melbourne