What sort of battery life can one expect with this app running on the iphone? Does it keep the screen powered on the entire time?

Also, I presume it needs to run in the foreground all the time in order to work? How will it handle having to swap with itunes, phone calls, etc?

Hi

Great app! I haveb been waiting for this since I got the iPhone

I tested it this weekend and it have a bug when loosing the signals in a tunnel o behind buildings.

See this track
http://gpsed.com/track/440382955837470833

As you can se it goes haywire from time to time. On the left side of the map it says “Rælingen”. Going west there i a tunnell. That’s where the problems starts.

I remember the same bug on one of the releases for my HTC Touch Cruice, but that came along with an update.

An other problem is that when a call comes in the program stops tracking, and you have to restart it after. I guess that is a iPhone issue more than a GPSed issue.

Overall: Great app

Imel, we haven’t tested battery life yet. Will report as soon as we have more information. Yes, the screen should be on to have GPS turned on. We’ll try to improve it in the next update. Yes, it should be in the foreground to write the track. You’ll have to manually continue the track after the call. It will be fixed in the next update.

Kyrre, nice to see you here Thanks for your comments.
We’ll try to address these issues in the next update.

I loaded the app onto my iphone but it is far from reliable.

See this example of a walk I did yesterday: http://www.gpsed.com/track/13898700999692192

Several issues, some might be iphone limitations though.

The iphone does not allow third party apps to run in the background, so the only way to have continuous tracking is to leave the app in the foreground, which means the display is constantly on. My fully charge phone was dead just over two hours later.

Also, as you can see from the track it kept jumping around, as the gps lost its position and found it again. Maybe it needs a sensitivity switch of sorts?

Another issue is that the app loses its cached (not yet uploaded) waypoints when you exit it to answer a call, change the song playing, etc.

I like the app, would be usefull for all the walks and cyclerides I do, so I hope the developers will release an improved version soon.

A little disappointed in this. Had it on the Blackberry and worked flawlessly. No Imperial units on this, can’t save files to computer, doesn’t show tracks on screen as on Blackberry. Hope updates are coming.

How do you change the measurement from km/h to mph?

Looks like a promising app - a couple of points:

My screen times out after a couple of minutes, which seems to suspend the app from running

How about a ‘take photo’ button to take a photo using the iphone, tag it with the coordinates, upload it to gpsed.com?

And to add to other people’s comments - minimizing battery life while the app is running is key…

Does this mean that i do not require 3g/GPRS or any form of internet connectivity to use my iphone as a gps?