Adolescent school travel: Is online mapping a practical alternative to GPS-assessed travel routes?

The comparison of Holux and Qstarz GPS receivers in free living conditions: Dynamic accuracy in different active transport modes

“…Unfortunately, none of these studies included any Holux GPS devices in their comparisons. The Qstarz is widely used in PA research (Andersen et al, 2017;Carlson et al, 2015;Evenson, Wen, Hillier, & Cohen, 2013;Hu, Li, Li, Houston, & Wu, 2016;Pizarro et al, 2017;Schipperijn et al, 2014;Stewart et al, 2017). The Holux RCV-3000 and its predecessor (Holux M-1000C) have been used in other scientific disciplines (Borkowski, Pietrzykowski, Magaj, & Maka, 2008;Hassein, Diachuk, & Easa, 2017), but only a few studies have used these devices in the field of PA monitoring (Arifin & Axhausen, 2012;Vorlíček, Rubín, Dygrýn, Mitáš, & Voženílek, 2016).…”

“…The accuracy of the Holux RCV-3000 GPS logger is rated as ± 3 m by the manufacturer. The technical parameters, a low-energy 66 channel MTK chipset and sensitivity up to -165 dBm, coincide with the Qstarz BT-Q1000XT, which is widely used among international researchers for measuring the location of PA (Andersen et al, 2017;Carlson et al, 2015;Pizarro et al, 2017;Schipperijn et al, 2014;Stewart, Schipperijn, Snizek, & Duncan, 2017). This is because the static accuracy (Duncan et al, 2013) and dynamic accuracy (Schipperijn et al, 2014) of this device have been successfully tested.…”

Investigating the impact of GIS modelled daily exposures to the retail food environment on routinely linked child health data

“…Furthermore, several studies suggest that when participants wear GPS loggers, their behaviour is influenced by an awareness of the device[279,280]. Population level analysis is also not feasible using GPS data.A study published by Stewart et al in 2017[354], suggested that mapping surveys are a reasonable method for collecting route data from adolescents. The study advised that researchers should consider the advantages and disadvantages of methodologies used to collect route data when deciding which method to implement.…”

“…The study advised that researchers should consider the advantages and disadvantages of methodologies used to collect route data when deciding which method to implement. Mapping surveys are a cost and resource-efficient alternative to GPS data collection and data can often be collected quickly and efficiently[354]. Previous studies that have collected data using mapping surveys have used paper maps[348,355,356] and interactive online mapping applications[354,357,358].…”

“…Mapping surveys are a cost and resource-efficient alternative to GPS data collection and data can often be collected quickly and efficiently[354]. Previous studies that have collected data using mapping surveys have used paper maps[348,355,356] and interactive online mapping applications[354,357,358]. Methodology A pilot study was designed to collect data using a supervised mapping survey to assess if this method would provide sufficient information to inform and evaluate the Exposure Model.…”