So far…
- Strava: This apes a commercial GPS by putting up a interminable splash screen (“Do not use while you are driving, we assume you are an idiot and will sue us, yadda”) – and frankly I cannot be arsed.
- iMapMyRide+: a shorter splash screen, and then it wants you to sign up and/or log in with Facebook. No, I will not do that.
- runkeeper: is for runners. It appears to be doing crap that I don’t want, and will not tell you about their website unless you log in. No, I will not do that.
This should not be hard – all I want is for a high precision GPS track to get remembered once I set it going, export to something I can upload into Google, and not clash with GoogleMaps so I can see where I am. Perhaps resettable max/min speeds and so forth.
Will try “GPS Logger for Android”.
For tracking I’m still with sports tracker. It does what I need but is hardly great.
Chris, is preloading maps onto the GPS important to you?
Have you tried mytracks?
It’s not pretty, but it works:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks&hl=en
Not tried that yet; another geek (on FB) recommended Maverick which looks quite sweet, and uses OpenStreetMap or similar, including footpath information. I’ll be giving that a whirl…
+1 on Maverick. Don’t use it that much but does what I want it to do.
Endomondo work great for me.
+1 For Endomondo from me.