GPS apps — Find Penguins

[CaminoCath]

I walked my dog tonight and turned on map My Walk, GPS Tracks, Relive and Find Penguins. The first theee accurately tracked me. FindPenguins only logged start, finish and one other point and joined them to make a triangle. Was this my fault or Find Penguins’ error? I love FIndPenguins for blogging and bookmaking but if it doesn’t track???!!

 

[trecile]

You need to turn on Automatic Travel Tracking. This explains it:

 

[CaminoCath]

You need to turn on Automatic Travel Tracking. This explains it:

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Yup tracking was on. I moved the battery thing to HIGH which may make it track better?

I also can’t figure out how to start/stop the tracking??

 

[CWBuff]

Strange
Start date/time... end date/time, AUTO Track on from the start date
Should work.....

 

[C clearly]

Do you perhaps need to check-in with an endpoint post before it shows? (Jusr a wild guess!)

 

[CWBuff]

@C clearly - good guess but as long as your starting date is set and th Auto track is on (which automatically "starts it") - it should track you until either you stop it or the end date runs out

 

[Phil—P]

I walked my dog tonight and turned on map My Walk, GPS Tracks, Relive and Find Penguins. The first theee accurately tracked me. FindPenguins only logged start, finish and one other point and joined them to make a triangle. Was this my fault or Find Penguins’ error? I love FIndPenguins for blogging and bookmaking but if it doesn’t track???!!

There is another app, Polar Steps that may suit your needs. Also claims to use less battery power.

 

[Kerry R May]

I used Polar Steps and was fabulous. No problems the whole journey.
Interestingly, I was unable to get Find Penguins to work and still can't.

 

[CaminoCath]

I used Polar Steps and was fabulous. No problems the whole journey.
Interestingly, I was unable to get Find Penguins to work and still can't.

I must be a klutz because I just tried Polar on my dog walk and it hasn’t recorded anything. Where are the start/stop buttons?

 

[jrewins]

I used Polar Steps on my first CF. It does a very good job of tracking your route, but the picture posting and text editing were buggy on my iPhone 11. As I recall, to begin route following, you have to create a “trip”, and then it will track your route by day. I don’t know that PS would be a good app for things like day hikes. For that I used AllTrails.