First Look: GPS Tracks HD For iPad
September 1, 2011
One of the better GPS apps for sporting enthusiasts for the iPhone/iPod touch, is about to arrive as a separate app for the Wi-Fi + 3G iPad. GPS Tracks HD is set to arrive in the App Store on Sept. 8. Here's our first look at this promising product.
Created by David Morneault, the app helps you keep track of your hiking, bicycling, walking, or off-road coordinates. Best of all, the app draws a line from your location to your next waypoint to give you the exact distance and estimated time of arrival to the waypoint.
Priced at just $1.99, GPS Tracks HD works with four different coordinate systems, including decimal, DMS, MGRS, and UTM. Hereafter, you can import and export three different file types (CSV, GPX, and KML) using iTunes file sharing.
In addition, you can store your favorite locations and also save and review your past tracks.
You can also email or print your locations.
Finally, for those that would like to utilize the app for driving purposes, GPS Tracks HD has an option to get driving directions from a third party app, Navigon.
Complete features include:
Tracks
- Tracks your location
- Store favorite locations
- Add waypoints on the fly to your current track either manually or from you favorite locations
- Convert between four sets of coordinates (Decimal, DMS, MGRS, UTM) anytime
- Disable sleep mode
- Auto pause mode
- Share your location with friends with an email with a direct link to your location on a map
- Send locations to the Navigon app or the default Maps app for directions
- Import and export coordinates in a CSV, GPX, or KML format with iTunes file sharing
- Export track history in a CSV, GPX, or KML format with iTunes file sharing
- View your track history, which includes speed and altitude change over time and a plot of the track on the map
- Select an exact time and view the corresponding speed or altitude in the History view
- View the time and location on the map or your tracks
Disclaimer:
- GPS Tracks and GPS Tracks HD does NOT give turn-by-turn directions, nor does it tell you the best route to take.
