ViewRanger App - Another look

I signed in to viewranger in order to have off phone access to my mapping.

What I learned is that viewranger does not immediately make your tracks available on the web, you have to "share" the tracks in order to view them. This involved going to view your tracks on the app, using the menu on the right and selecting "share".

This will ultimately upload your tracks to the web version.

When viewing your tracks, it not only shows you where you have been, but the altitude of that trip, speed and distance in a separate graph.

This was my trip to campus last week. I took a slight detour and got off at stonestown to get some iced tea and walked the rest of the way.

I never really thought about the fact that this is a shorter trip distance wise than driving but it can take like 3x longer than driving (depending on how you hit traffic on the highway).

The only disadvantage to using apps like this is that I forget to turn my gps on..... and it kills your phone's battery.

I've been playing with the standalone gps unit Paula loaned out and found that it's hard to get a good read in SOMA. When we used them over at SFSU, I don't think I lost satellite contact, but couldn't keep a read here. My neighborhood's buildings aren't even that tall.