I had a chance to try out Trailguru on my iPhone today. Trailguru is an application that constantly tracks your location. For this it uses the iPhone’s GPS receiver. It’s a nice app with a clean interface and most important very accurate. Uploading your tracks to the Trailguru website gives you all kind of exciting possibilities. You can get back your data in a GPX file which you for example can use to geotag your photos. You can also share your tracks with friends or embed them on your website (see below).
The big problem for Trailguru on the iPhone is that using the GPS receiver sucks hard on your iPhone battery. After an hour of tracking, your iPhone’s battery will be about empty. Another problem is that tracking requires you to leave the Trailguru screen open. In other words, you dedicate your iPhone to Trailguru once you start tracking. Both of these problems aren’t really Trailguru’s fault, but annoying nevertheless.
I will keep Trailguru on my iPhone a bit longer. It might come out handy some time, but it is not an app I will be using very often.
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