Cool Tool For the Phone

Thru the HDForums, I found a cool tool (app) for my phone that will track your travels by almost any imaginable transportation (walking, bus, bike etc). Then it gives you a rough map, time, distance and other stats. These you can share with anyone, some people or no one.

I thought it would be a cool thing to use on bike trips. I downloaded CheckMyTour a couple of days ago thru GooglePlay store (it is also available for iPhones) and decided to test it out during my walk at lunch. Now that walk isn't bery long - just around the parking lots of the building I work at, but I figured that would give me an idea of what it could do. so here are a couple of screenshots of my stats:

Check out the max speed of 4 mph, but my average was only 3.055. That is because I stopped at my bike and removed the engine guard chaps and stowed them away in the saddlebags. I also had my chaps and a sweatshirt that I had used for riding into work, which I stowed in another saddlebag. All-in-all, I probably spent 3-4 minutes at the bike before continuing on my walk. I could have hit "pause" and it wouldn't have counted that time, but I didn't want to bother. And truthfully, I had no idea what stats it was keeping, so didn't see a need to pause the recording.

Obviously it uses GPS to track where you are and I find it funny that it could track me so precisely that it shows how un-straight my walking line is! And, I was unsure what the picture would show inside my circular route - but obviously it knows the building is there, so I would guess that it works off of some type of mapping program (although it cannot give you pre-made maps).

I could also have taken notes of pictures and uploaded them to the site for use later (or sharing), but there wasn't much use of that during my test.

I think I will find use for this, if I remember to start it up before any of my travels.

Comments

[Cop Car]

That really is a cool app, Bogie. Your dad uses the GPS directions (for driving) app on his phone, rather than his car's GPS, much of the time because he can set up destinations before leaving the house. No need to sit in the car and punch them in.

[bogie]

WS got me a GPS and it lies to me so often I have sworn never to use it again. It has gone as far as taking me down dead end roads, then telling me to turn around in a driveway and return the way I came! And then there are the roads it wants me to take, which aren't ther. The last straw was trying to get to Boston from work, telling it I want the fastest route - so it took me down every side road and about a jillion stop lights. It should have taken me to the highway and only the last 3 miles be in city (WS got there fine with his GPS).

My phone's GPS has almost always been good to me.