Replacement GPS logging app for iPhone

tormento turment at gmail.com
Mon Oct 18 07:54:05 PDT 2021


Rego saves on Dropbox in json format.

After the dives, at home, I simply open the backup file with a text editor
and paste the GPS coordinates in Subsurface on Windows.

Alberto

Il giorno lun 18 ott 2021 alle 16:23 Dirk Hohndel via subsurface <
subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> ha scritto:

> Which format do these apps save the GPS information in?
> Obviously the next request from someone will be to import such format...
>
> /D
>
>
> On October 18, 2021 7:04:44 AM PDT, Willem Ferguson via subsurface <
> subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>>
>> In Android there are many similar programs. One of the more versatile is
>> GPS Essentials.
>> Kind regards,
>> Willem
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, 15:52 Jason Bramwell via subsurface, <
>> subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I currently use the old no longer maintained Subsurface companion app
>>> for capturing my GPS position, this worked well for me and I didn’t really
>>> see any reason to switch my GPS logging to the newer Subsurface-mobile app.
>>> The old phone (this is the only thing I use it for) I use for capturing
>>> these GPS points is slowly dying and will need to be replaced at some
>>> point, the old app will not work on newer versions of iOS so I need to find
>>> an alternate solution.
>>>
>>> Subsurface-Mobile no longer supports GPS capture so that is no longer an
>>> option So I thought I’d tell others what app I have replaced it with (or am
>>> planning to use) as I’ve looked at quite a few and there has always been a
>>> catch or a problem with each one I’ve looked at before now.
>>>
>>> I’ve found an app today that seems to do exactly what I want, it
>>> captures GPS positions either as a one-time capture or an an automatic
>>> capture based on a time delay or distance between points. You can display
>>> the captured points either as a simple sequential list or visualise them on
>>> a map to pick the one you want.
>>>
>>> I’m hoping to try this for real alongside the old companion app) in the
>>> coming week but it looks like I now have something that’ll work for me.
>>>
>>> This is on iPhone, I don’t know if the same app is available on Android
>>> but if not this one then something similar will be out there. Perhaps
>>> Android users can reply with what they are using to save others the
>>> searching for something that isn’t junk.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
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