RideTrac 1.0 Released
RideTrac is a GPS-enabled Android application to track, record, and manage your bike rides (or whatever else you might want to track - hikes, runs, road trips, etc). RideTrac is modeled on a GPS-powered bike computer, like the Garmin Edge. I’ve been using RideTrac side-by-side with my Garmin Edge 305 for a few months now. Battery life has been fine, even for rides upwards of 4 hours. Basically it does everything the 305 does (that I care about anyway) and more except:
- the on-board G1 GPS is inferior to a Garmin (although usually not too bad),
- GPS-based elevations are FAR less accurate than the 305’s barometric altimeter, and
- the G1 doesn’t come with a handlebar mount (next product idea???).
Of course my Garmin cost a good deal more than my G1 and it isn’t nearly as useful if I need to make a come-and-get-me call during a ride, or do a thousand other important things like play Pac-Man at work. So all in all it’s a reasonable compromise.
So what does version 1.0 do?
- Integrates the Android MapView
- Easy control of all map functions
- One click jump to Google Street View
- Real-time time, speed, distance, elevation gain/loss statistics
- On-screen compass
- Super-fast track overlay rendering, even for very large trips
- Record rides and save in internal database
- Load/delete saved rides
- Export rides to sdcard in GPX format for simple import to desktop training packages or any standard GPS software package
- Customizable user preferences for units, colors, tracking sensitivity
- Backup & Restore internal database
Get it on your Android powered phone from the Android Market.
Check out the User’s Manual.
What’s coming in future versions?
- Real-time web posting of current location
- Publish rides to the web
- Organize rides by weeks/months/years
- More extensive management of saved rides
- Elevation profile view
- Ride playback/review/annotation capabilities
- More