GPS App reviews

[WaveDemon]

UPDATED:


GPSed: FREE Very polished looking. The main screen shows speed, distance, time and a compass. It logs lat/lon, altitude, waypoints, max speed, avg speed and you can add photos to your path as you go. you can upload you path to GPSed.com and post it directly to facebook from the app.

GPS logger: FREE Nice bare bones app when it works, no map shown in the app just logs the GPS data. It rarely works properly on my BB Curve. It has one of 2 problems: 1 it will only log for 3-4 minutes and crash. 2 it will log fine all day but won't save the path to the profile manager so I can do something with it later.

Trekbuddy: FREE This app has a really cool feature that lets you download the maps from google maps ahead of time so you don't need internet access for the maps to load. I don't see where this app has any logging capabilities.

GPS Tracker: FREE only good for tracking a remote GPS unit.




Also, I ordered this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...=260569202370&ff4=263602_263622#ht_4539wt_939 bike mount for my BB. I hope it's not a POS.




Please add any GPS app experiences you've had.

 

[SuperJETT]

GPSLogger works great on my Tour, but the gps just isn't that accurate as I can take the same path 30 minutes later and it will move the path over.

If you download tracks from trimbleoutdoors, you can load them as navipaths in it to follow, though for the singletracks around here there is no need really.

 

[orangefinger]

i wish there would be a good app for altitude

 

[Big Kahuna]

Friend has a Garmin Edge 705(?). It is designed at a on the Trail GPS unit. Guess what, it is always off some. Using the wheel sensor it will be accurate by distance. By straight GPS is is always off. Does not detect the small turns. Thinks you are going from A to D, not picking up left turn B and Right turn C.

 

[WaveDemon]

i wish there would be a good app for altitude

GPSlogger shows altitude, I don't know how accurate it is.

 

[SuperJETT]

Altitude really requires an atmospheric altimeter equipped gps. I can be standing still and gpslogger will show me gaining 150ft.

 

[WaveDemon]

Friend has a Garmin Edge 705(?). It is designed at a on the Trail GPS unit. Guess what, it is always off some. Using the wheel sensor it will be accurate by distance. By straight GPS is is always off. Does not detect the small turns. Thinks you are going from A to D, not picking up left turn B and Right turn C.

I have a heart rate monitor and I want to use my BB kind of like a bike computer (speed, distance, time, elevation change and a map I can export for later or to share). If it's 90% accurate I'm pretty happy. on GPSlogger I cranked up the sampling rate up to once per second, I can see its not perfect when I can get it to save and export but it's good enough.

 

[WaveDemon]

Altitude really requires an atmospheric altimeter equipped gps. I can be standing still and gpslogger will show me gaining 150ft.

good to know.

I'd like to know what the limitations of a gps equipped phone is and how it compares to a regular GPS device. Does the blue tooth phone gps antennas make the BB more accurate?

 

[WaveDemon]

instamapper is great for snooping on someone. you can load this on a phone and watch what where they go from your computer. The display on the phone is VERY basic. It shows long/lat, altitude, and MPH. no distance and you can't look at anything that's been logged.

I'm trying the software provided by GPSed.com next

 

[WaveDemon]

I think I've found a winner....


GPSed: FREE Very polished looking, The main screen shows speed, distance, time and a compass. It logs lat/lon, altitude, waypoints, max speed, avg speed and you can add photos to your path as you go. you can upload you path to GPSed.com and post it directly to facebook from the app.



updated first post

 

[vitaly]

Please add any GPS app experiences you've had.

Haven't found a good one for any phone.
Still using the old trusty yellow Etrex and/or Etrex Legend with a bike mount. They both are like 7-9 years old.
Mostly using the basic Etrex, it's just sits on the bike at all times, it's yellow on a yellow bike.
The Legend is in the car's or couch's glove compartments.
For the car nav I'm using Nuvi 360, about 4-5 years old.

All the free phone nav software stopped working for me in 2010, I check out some apps that seems to be stable once in a while and end up deleting them.
I don't use a BB, but a SE C702.