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Its the best you have, but as I pointed out, any single measurement has known inaccuracies. If you want an accurate assessment of which is the more accurate app, find a local sports ground that has a 400m track. Do 4 or 5 km (10 or 12.5 laps) using your GPS sticking to the inside lane, and compare the results. You could shorten the distance if you feel you will be bored or lose count, but the more you can do the more realistic will be the result.So, do you think that if I took the average distance from these two apps, it is likely to be accurate(ish)?
Or is that too much to hope for?
The distance you have to walk won't change - its just the accuracy of the measurement, and perhaps your perception based on that about how much you have done. If you can share the track, your friends won't know if there are minor inaccuracies along the way, and those who might use the track will appreciate the information anyway.I will be setting off on the camino Mozárabe from Málaga in a few weeks and was hoping to share my stage routes with anyone who is interested. Over 1,200 km 5% would be 60 km - 2-3 days' walking. But as I don't want to carry any more technology I guess inaccurate will have to do.
I use a Garmin eTrex 30 and either the older Mapsource or newer Basemap applications. I have tried some smartphone apps such as mapmywalk, but wasn't particularly impressed. On my phone, the GPS is a battery hog. I sometimes carry a tablet that has a GPS that doesn't appear to drain the battery quite so much, but I haven't used that for serious walking.Do you have a favourite app for measuring distance?
If you want an accurate assessment of which is the more accurate app, find a local sports ground that has a 400m track. Do 4 or 5 km (10 or 12.5 laps) using your GPS sticking to the inside lane, and compare the results.
On my phone, the GPS is a battery hog.
I'm using GPS app only for tracking my way and I put my phone in airplane mode during walking. The battery lasts for whole day with no problem. It even allows me to make additional photos and possible texting.Absolutely agree. I don't think I could get 6 or 8 hours out of mine. Maybe 4 hours at most.
Thanks @wayfarer i shall take a look.@Magwood, I use the "My Tracks" app for walking.
Yes, I took a external charger last year and found it very useful, for the reasons stated. It will come again on this camino.I do take a "juicer" or portable battery to use if the phone battery gets low. It is often easier and safer to recharge the juicer than the phone itself when you are in a public place and can't stay with the phone all the time. The juicer is much less of a theft target than a phone.
Thank you, Doug. I'll take your advice with my Endomondo app (Android) before departure to Levante this June. Last year my GPS tracks were almost everyday longer than distances in guidebooks
I absolutely do NOT want you to tell me that your distances were wrong, because I was so encouraged when your device told me I actually walked 43 km on the Invierno when I had thought I was walking 37! So let's just leave those distances the way they are.
Well, walking with a GPS never changed the distance, only our perceptions!!I absolutely do NOT want you to tell me that your distances were wrong, because I was so encouraged when your device told me I actually walked 43 km on the Invierno when I had thought I was walking 37! So let's just leave those distances the way they are.
I've found Brierley's distances (2011 edition of CF guidebook) the closest to distances recorded with Endomondo. Of course last year I walked only from Sahagun to Ponferrada. Guides for C.de Madrid and C.de Invierno had much bigger discrepancies than Brierley. I could comment on that also but that would already be off-topicI guess an apology might be due to Mr Brierly. I berrated him several times in my blog from the camino portuguese for stating the wrong stage distances. Maybe he was just using a different measuring device!
Sorry Mr B!
You can still berate him for giving the "as the crow flies" km's more prominence than the "as the pilgrim walks" distances.I guess an apology might be due to Mr Brierly. I berrated him several times in my blog from the camino portuguese for stating the wrong stage distances. Maybe he was just using a different measuring device!
Sorry Mr B!
Motion-X GPS. You can import gps files and you can download the maps you want (as Google Maps or, in my opinion, even better, MotionX Road or MotionX Terrain, or many others) in advance. After that you need no cell data to use the app and see where you are on the maps.I'm looking for a good GPS app that will allow me to import gpx files easily and view them on a map, preferable the Google or iPhone map that I already have
Quite a significant difference. How can this be?
Many thanks for any help with this brain teaser.
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