GPSRecorder is a position recording application.
GPSRecorder was formerly named TrackMe
Tracks are recorded as a succession of points using the location services of your iPhone, both network position and gps position, including altitude. 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.
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 gps photo linker
- 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 uses a sidecar web site to export gpx files or display tracks, but otherwise 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 is only available through the AppStore.
Watch a short demo movie
To make use of your GPX files, I advise you to use
GPS Photo Linker on a mac
GeoSetter on a Windows PC
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).
