Trail tracker get and store your location manually or automatically and show the path on a map.

Whenever you are going for a trip, just start the application and get at a defined rate the geographic coordinates : longitude, latitude and altitude. In automatic acquisition, because the Iphone OS does not allow user background processes, the application “Trail tracker” must be active  (do not press the home button, it will stop the application. You can press the Sleep/Wake button to switch off the screen and user interaction).

During or at the end of the trip you can visualise the route on a map and have basic informations such as trip length, duration, average speed, max and min altitude.

The GPS system uses a lot of battery power, so whenever you are going for a long trip it is better to use the manual mode thus acquire only the remarkable points (pass, summit, path turn). To save extra power you can disable the wifi connection, the bluetooth connection. You can also put the phone in the « plane mode ». Each time a new point is needed the plane mode has to be switch off. In plane mode the GPS system is disable.

To get the background map, a network connection must be establish, nevertheless the application works perfectly even if the network connection is unavailable. When the data network is not available, you must be patient, between one or two minutes are needed to get an accurate point.

Save the waypoints, and load then : a file management is provided, so you can keep track of all your trips.

Send your trip by mail and visualize then with google earth, a kml format file is included in the mail.