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iPhone APP for off road trails

lankydoug

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Can anyone recommend an APP that will track where you've been after a trail ride? I'd like to know mileage and where the heck I was. I follow guys that have ridden places for 30 years and I think if I could overlay my path on goggle earth it would help me from being so lost the next time.
 
lankydoug said:
Can anyone recommend an APP that will track where you've been after a trail ride? I'd like to know mileage and where the heck I was. I follow guys that have ridden places for 30 years and I think if I could overlay my path on goggle earth it would help me from being so lost the next time.
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Try MotionX-GPS although it sucks a lot of battery power from your iphone. Best $5 I ever spent, and you CAN overlay to google earth and some other GPS apps to get it onto a map.
 
I've tried motion x. Will u have cell phone coverage where u ride? If not forget the iPhone app. We ride mark twain forest but cell coverage is very spotty. I haven't broke down for a real gps but it's probably only option for remote areas.
 
colemanapp said:
I've tried motion x. Will u have cell phone coverage where u ride? If not forget the iPhone app. We ride mark twain forest but cell coverage is very spotty. I haven't broke down for a real gps but it's probably only option for remote areas.
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The Mark Twain in MO and the San Isabel in CO have little to no cell coverage. Does the phone APPs just draw a straight line between points of reception?
 
So an iPhone is really just an expensive relay system to feed the phones location to the service provider (who in turn, seemingly, lets you know where you are at)? Then obviously would need multiple towers / reception to locate the phone.

Seems a bit strange it cannot operate autonomously. Probably did not want to put an antenna on it which did not connect to a tower (different frequencies).

I certainly would not call anything that needs a tower a "Global Positioning System".
 
The iPhone has a GPS and there are mapping apps that are autonomous. The maps must be loaded onto the iPhone and the maps take a lot of memory. The ones I know about are for street use. The use of the cell coverage is to get the maps.
 
Motion-X GPS has the option to store maps offline on the phone. Once you do that, it works like any other GPS.

As mentioned above, using your phone as a GPS drains the battery pretty quickly.
 
utopia said:
I've heard of one called MapMyRide. Developed for mountain biking but may give you what you're looking for.
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Some guys at the local bicycle shop told me there are sites where you enter your bicycle ride on a forum to compare to other riders. Even at my age I'm pretty sure I could smoke the mountain bike riders on the hills I've been climbing on my WR. It would be kind of funny to post a few rides followed by an "Oops, you mean your bikes don't have engines?":excuseme:
 
jtemple said:
Motion-X GPS has the option to store maps offline on the phone. Once you do that, it works like any other GPS.

As mentioned above, using your phone as a GPS drains the battery pretty quickly.
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I use my phone in Airplane mode when riding (don't usually get any coverage anyway) and MotionX works with the inbuilt GPS function on the phone. You just record a track and when you get home (or in cell coverage) open the track and it will automatically download the appropriate maps for the saved track. I get about 5-6 hrs of battery life this way, enough for me.
 
robertk61 said:
I use my phone in Airplane mode when riding (don't usually get any coverage anyway) and MotionX works with the inbuilt GPS function on the phone. You just record a track and when you get home (or in cell coverage) open the track and it will automatically download the appropriate maps for the saved track. I get about 5-6 hrs of battery life this way, enough for me.
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Where do you find the "record a track" option in MotionX? I'm looking on mine right now and do not see that option. Thanks.
 
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