Poster: A snowHead
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Evening All.
Hmm, now after being a patient chap and waiting out for the Nokia N97 Mini over the monster that is it bigger brother i was gutted to find this:
http://www.mammut.ch/en/safetyapp.html
After searching for a while for something similar for the Nokia i seem to have drawn a blank does anyone out there have or know of anything similar for the N97...?
I suppose this will teach me for being stubborn over the I Phone! why o why cant nokia get their act together!
Cheers
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matricks, Not sure about altitude or compass on the N975. I have a 5800 so they come from the GPS which means a) I need to be moving for the compass to work and b) when walking by the sea the thing claims I'm at 200m ASL . However IIRC there are clinometers for the Nokia, I can't remember what they were called but I do remember seeing some on my search for "apps".
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matricks,
I don't do off piste, but my initial instinct if I was seeing someone using an Iphone (or any other phone) app to assess the risk of a slope would be to run a mile... and quick! And if you think you need it I'd suggest to get proper lessons about skking off piste..
Coming back to your original question: Although not ski specific, Nokia does an application called Nokia Sports tracker.
It GPS based, will map out (exportable to Google earth) where you have, average speed, max speed, total distance etc.. I use it with my Nokia 5800 for jogging, but skiing is one of the activities supported and we used it last year in meribel to map out an entire day of skiing..
Officially the sports tracket does not support Symbian60 V5, i.e 5800/N97/N97 mini, but there is a version that works very well (the one I am using) HERE.
Not quite like the Mammut app but fun nonetheless and it's free...
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Kruisler, from a quick browse the program works as a compass, altimeter and clinometer which all provide info on whether a slope is likely to be safe which will compare to the info in the avvy bulletin. The first two functions you can get from a map anyway, the last one is useful as it means you should always be able to access up to date info without needing to find an internet connection or hope it's been posted somewhere and is up to date (e.g. L2A had a really good forecast and snowpack profile by the lift, unfortunately it was from 2006 probably still there now). Also the clinometer function is a brilliant idea and having a phone do it is as good as anything else. So as a tool this is quite useful partly to aid route selection the night before and to provide further info to aid safety decisions on the fly. Although of course it opens up the whole phone-transceiver debate again
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matricks,
The N97 has got an integrated compass by all accounts, and the GPS app I told you about will let you know your altittude.
I found this for a clinometer: http://www.persian-forums.com/f97/drjukka-inclinometer-v1-00-s60v5-freeware-upd-09-10-24-a-12187/
No idea if it is any good though..
Can't help with bulletins but you can alway find out on the net the night/morning before and if you don't clear the phone's browser cache, the pages/bulletin should be on the phone even without any network access.
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Swirly,
Well Said.
Transceiver for me
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Coming back to your original question: Although not ski specific, Nokia does an application called Nokia Sports tracker.
It GPS based, will map out (exportable to Google earth) where you have, average speed, max speed, total distance etc.. I use it with my Nokia 5800 for jogging, but skiing is one of the activities supported and we used it last year in meribel to map out an entire day of skiing..
Officially the sports tracket does not support Symbian60 V5, i.e 5800/N97/N97 mini, but there is a version that works very well (the one I am using) HERE.
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I've got the Sports tracker installed on my 5800 without any problems. As a slight diversion have you come across an interval timer for newer Nokias (e.g. for timing 8 running/walking intervals)? The older ones used to have such a thing but I can't find a free one for the new one
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matricks, Get an N900 instead!
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You know it makes sense.
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First post on here, but ive been lurking for a while(and bought off a forum member last week). Ive been looking for similar stuff for nokia, havent found much like that. Ive found Snowranger(topographical piste maps, linked to using the phones gps) but im a bit hesitant to pay the £100 odd quid for the europe map set, when the garmin mobile XT software that runs it and all the european road maps to go with it can be found online for free.
much like the comment above regarding the nokia compass, I fail to see how the iphone compass can work unless you are moving.
As a side note, when skiing and ive wanted to know the direction, Ive always been able to gather a rough idea by using my watch, and the suns position in the sky, granted its only given me a rough idea to within "north, north east, east" etc, and not to a degree, but given the fact that im mainly alpine skiing, and its only been used when ive either dropped the piste map on a lift/theres no markers/poles around due to being off the beaten track, and trying to work out which way is home. But I feel if i needed it any more accurate than that, I wouldnt be trusting the compass on my phone(given that the spirit level on my phone says my shelves aint straight), id either be using a proper compass, or following gps co ordinates(and proper GPS not pseudo GPS using cellular networks)
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