Apps for the camino

biloute

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Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (summer 2014), Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (possible summer 2019)

• Nov 22, 2013

• #1

Does anyone know of some useful apps to use along the camino, that can work offline? I'd especially like one that can track distance, elevation, speed, etc. Other types might be such as Miam Miam Dodo, maps, or anything else you can think of. I have an iPhone.

 

billmclaughlin

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SJPP/Burgos 2012; Le Puy/SJPP 2013; Aumont Aubrac/Aire sur l'Adour 2014; Burgos/Santiago 2016.

• Nov 22, 2013

• #2

Which camino do you intend to hike?

 

biloute

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Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (summer 2014), Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (possible summer 2019)

• Nov 22, 2013

• #3

Le Puy to Santiago

 

billmclaughlin

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SJPP/Burgos 2012; Le Puy/SJPP 2013; Aumont Aubrac/Aire sur l'Adour 2014; Burgos/Santiago 2016.

• Nov 22, 2013

• #4

MMDD for Le Puy to SJPP was a great resource for me. If you plan to have phone service even when "offline" in terms of internet access, it's more valuable still.

Bill

 

biloute

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• Nov 22, 2013

• #5

billmclaughlin said:

MMDD for Le Puy to SJPP was a great resource for me. If you plan to have phone service even when "offline" in terms of internet access, it's more valuable still.

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Is the app the same as the printed book?

 

kmrice

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Podiensis 2016, Via Francigena 2018, '19, '22, '23

• Nov 22, 2013

• #6

biloute said:

Does anyone know of some useful apps to use along the camino, that can work offline? I'd especially like one that can track distance, elevation, speed, etc. Other types might be such as Miam Miam Dodo, maps, or anything else you can think of. I have an iPhone.

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MotionX GPS worked great for me on an iPhone 5. You can download all the terrain maps along your Camino, download the track for your Camino, and track your walk.

Karl

 

billmclaughlin

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SJPP/Burgos 2012; Le Puy/SJPP 2013; Aumont Aubrac/Aire sur l'Adour 2014; Burgos/Santiago 2016.

• Nov 22, 2013

• #7

biloute said:

Is the app the same as the printed book?

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Yes the info is the same but there's the added functionality, like clicking on a phone number so u never have to dial and tracking your location on the trail with GPS. The one or two times you really lose the trail it's a lifesaver.

See also: http://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/imiam-app-miam-miam-dodo-for-iphone.19252/

 

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biloute

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Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (summer 2014), Chemin du Puy & Camino Francés (possible summer 2019)

• Dec 2, 2013

• #8

kmrice said:

MotionX GPS worked great for me on an iPhone 5. You can download all the terrain maps along your Camino, download the track for your Camino, and track your walk.

Karl

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What do you mean by downloading the track for the Camino?

 

kmrice

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Podiensis 2016, Via Francigena 2018, '19, '22, '23

• Dec 4, 2013

• #9

biloute said:

What do you mean by downloading the track for the Camino?

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Various people have created tracks of the different Caminos and posted them on the Web. A track is the path you want to follow to stay on the Camino. If you download the track into MotionX GPS (a process which is a little complicated, but if I managed it you almost surely can as well, at least with a little of the help so generously provided on this forum), when you open up MotionX GPS you will see, on your map, where you are, and where the Camino is. If the two are not the same, you know you made a wrong turn. Or the track was wrong. The one I downloaded was very accurate; if it said I was on the Camino, I would shortly see a yellow arrow or scallop shell confirming this. A couple of times it showed alternative routes, and once or twice it showed a path on what was probably the Camino before a slight route change was handed down from whoever decided these things. But, with a little common sense, it was great to have the track display on the map. I'm going to do a Pilgrimage to Assisi next fall, and wish I could find tracks for that.

Karl

 

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jl

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Frances('05, '07), Aragonese ('05), del Norte / Primitivo ('09), Via Tolosana (Toulouse '05), Via Podiensis (Le Puy '07), Via Lemovicensis (Troyes '09), VF ('12), Winter Camino ('13/'14) Cammino d'Assisi ('14) Jakobseweg (Leipzig - Paris '15) San Salvador/Norte ('15) Ignaciano ('16) Invierno ('16)

• Dec 6, 2013

• #10

. I'm going to do a Pilgrimage to Assisi next fall, and wish I could find tracks for that./QUOTE]

Please let us know if you do Karl. If all goes according to plan I will be heading there in august next year. Janet

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kmrice

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Podiensis 2016, Via Francigena 2018, '19, '22, '23

• Dec 12, 2013

• #11

"Please let us know if you do Karl. If all goes according to plan I will be heading there in august next year"

Will do. Where are you thinking of starting? Have you found a forum or other source on information on St. Francis treks?