GPSRecorder

GPSRecorder is a position recording application. Use it to record your walks and geotag your pictures

Tracks are recorded as a succession of points using the GPS of your iPhone. If you quit the application, all your data recorded is preserved, an you can launch another session after that critical call that requested you to quit the application.

GPSRecorder displays the compass if you have an iPhone 3GS so that you can instatly know all that is important about your position : both geolocation and direction/North. If you can connect to the internet, an instant map is also available to find where you are and browse.

You can then review your tracks on your phone, including map, number of points recorded, or distance travelled, or delete the unnecessary tracks or export one as a gpx and a KML file for use with other software (GPX is lingua franca for Locations).

For example, you might like to :

  • record all your positions during a shooting day to geolocalize your pictures, using software as HoudahGeo on a mac or atomgps on Windows
  • keep a record of the track you've used during a walk, and share it with your friends and relatives
  • know how much kilometers you've made on a travel.
  • publish your run on trail mapping
  • publish your hiking on everytrail

GPSRecorder doesn't need web access to record your position, so you can use it in the field, and battery consumption is kept minimum (think about unsetting 3G also). No registration is needed and no data is kept.

GPSRecorder now has an instant map feature that requires internet access.

GPSRecorder is only available through the AppStore.

Export your tracks

You can export your tracks in different manners: directly to web sites such as trailmapping or everytrail, by email (directly) or by network sync using HoudahGPS on your mac. You get both the GPX file with all your positions, and times and precision, and the KML file which you can use at once with Google Earth or Google Maps.

To make use of your GPX files, I advise you to use

Seeing or using track files

Here are two samples of files : one directly from the application , and the other one after a conversion by GPSBabel to the (fat) Google earth file format. Download them to see if you can use them.

It's a bike ride with my 11 years old son , during 3 hours and a half. The battery was still over 30% full after that ride (it was version 1.2, and now you can record much longer).