 Poster: A snowHead
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Does SkiTracks have a find your friend option? I am thinking of putting this on my daughters phone for while they are at ski school. At least if they was to phone I would roughly know where they are! Not that I am hoping they have a reason to phone. They might also find the app interesting
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@bluedusty Ski Tracks doesnt but some of the others mentioned before do.
Also depending where you're off to the resort might offer one, eg the Grand Massif app records and shows friends
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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| robandliza wrote: |
| I'm no techno but presumably it can deflate all the above as well inflate then? |
It depends how the app works but if you take something like Strava it uses a satellite derived altitude database to "correct" altitudes. GPS altitude accuracy is not that good anyway. Now the problem is that in mountainous terrain if your gps signal is a few meters off that can put you 10 meters down a slope or 10 meters up a slope. Look at the GPS data from phone apps where there is no barometric gps when used in the mountains, you get lots of ups and downs and all those errors are cumulative, they don't cancel each other out.
You can apply a smoothing factor, but what factor do you apply?
Barometric altitude has its own shortcomings but are generally much more accurate.
Still I guess it amuses people say "I was skiing 130kph down that blue".
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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Paradiski Yuge is ok (and great for live lift info) but I found it would stop half way through your day without you realising, which was a bit lame. Nice to look at though, unlike skitracks.
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Thanks for the info @Jenniper
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I dropped SkiTracks for Skitude this season. So far so good, I only wish I could transfer my ST runs to Skitude.
Take care,
BB
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| EarthWindandWater wrote: |
@bluedusty Ski Tracks doesnt but some of the others mentioned before do.
Also depending where you're off to the resort might offer one, eg the Grand Massif app records and shows friends |
thanks for the info 👍
We are off to Avoriaz on the 21st. Think I will try Maprika then. Cheers again
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I like skitracks too, the only issue that I wish it had a basic edit tool (e.g. Delete a segment) as I often forget to stop it at the end, so I get tracked doing 120 km/h on the Autoroute on the way home.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@Whitters, i think you can trim tracks now...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| EarthWindandWater wrote: |
| @Whitters, i think you can trim tracks now... |
Oh yes, via the map. Thanks! Duly updated now
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Got to vote for Maprika again, as well as others as mentioned it also has plenty of facilities to export your tracks to your PC and onto Google Earth if you prefer looking at them on a bigger screen. It is also possible to submit your own map if the piste map hasn't been updated or there isn't one.
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You know it makes sense.
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| davidof wrote: |
| but as you say, it flatters egos |
I can't speak for everybody but you've got to be a bit of a knob to have your ego inflated by seeing your days data on ski tracks.
My ego is only inflated when I take on a challenging slope and make a good job of it. That is personal to me and really only I can judge. Ski Tracks or any other app certainly can't record that.
I very much suspect 95% of users just use it for a bit of interest and/or fun. As in blimey I covered a lot of vertical today or blimey, I hit 55kmh - I wonder when that was, while they are having an apres cuppa or beer.
There of course always an occasional knob who likes to self publicise their exploits for ego purposes but I would say it's quite rare.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Another vote for Skitracks. Sure, it's not 100% accurate and entirely possible to fool it. (My top speed on all my tracks is 107 km/h, but it was clocked up on the Val d'Isere funnicular railway in the tunnel. it uses the GPS to figure out if you're going up or down to decided whether to include it in your stats, but in a tunnel there's no GPS so it took it as a bona fide result!) As loads of other people have said, it's just a bit of fun, isn't it?
Not sure if the other apps do it, but Skitracks also displays on my Pebble watch (poor man's Apple Watch) so I don't have to keep taking my phone out of my pocket, which is an advantage.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just wondering if anyone has worked out roughly how much data is used by the tracking app? I am aware that they use GPS which is not data but I presume to use the friend finder both party's will need data on? I can imagine it's a very small amount but just nice to know what data card to get. I am hoping 1gb will be more than enough.
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FAQ
!! ) - so a search could not have involved the word 'Skitracks'.
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