My roads are garbage. Fresh pavement is bumpy and granular. Buses put big dents in the tarmac of the bicycle lanes. It's quite pathetic. I'd like a way of measuring how poor our road conditions in the bicycle lanes really are so we can get them improved. Improved roads = better and more cyclists = more Garmin computers sold! Doesn't have to be a default 'on' feature, but it would be nice to be able to record and look over the heat maps and improve the busy and most dilapidated areas first. I know my powerpod has accelerometers that could be used, but integrating them into a heat map with the Garmin would be most beneficial. I could also mount my phone and derive the displacements, but obviously Garmin integration would be preferred. Anything noticed as a greater than 1/4" bump in less than 6' or something similar.
Can the Garmin accelerometer, for incident detection and theft, be used to measure road smoothness and evaluate potholes while riding?
