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Best app for tracking your speed?

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UncleGerry
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Anyone know of any apps that do the best job of capturing your top speed? I've used a couple that are kind of janky and definitely don't work properly.
Jan 22 2013 5:52PM
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One.2
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Alpine Replay
Jan 22 2013 6:35PM
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Holte
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None of them are going to be particularly accurate since they don't take elevation into effect.
Jan 22 2013 6:36PM
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Swagzilla
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i use ski tracks, but i dont know how accurate it is
Jan 22 2013 6:50PM
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Ebmohst
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Hi, Tshombe here with Navionics.  We make a Ski app that will track your speed...check it out

 http://www.navionics.com/en/ski-0

Tshombe

Feb 4 2013 11:47AM
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YouAllSuck
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Feb 4 2013 12:02PM
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SPUTnik.
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ski tracks
Feb 4 2013 12:30PM
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BK
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Ski Tracks claims to show elevation, how the iPhone knows your elevation I am not sure, i guess through the GPS
Feb 4 2013 12:39PM
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Funnel
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Ski Tracks for sure. It seems pretty accurate to me. The speed seemed proper and the elevation is also dead on. The better service you have, the better the outcome is.
Feb 4 2013 12:49PM
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Elmo.
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yea GPS does elevation.
but ski tracks is sick. i always use it when i ski. it tells you everything about your day
Feb 4 2013 1:30PM
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Candyman.
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I have an app called "GPS Speedometer" on my android and it works wonders, so far i've gotten 94km/h.
Feb 4 2013 1:51PM
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freeskibum82
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rossi has a free app that will do it as well i believe.
Feb 4 2013 1:55PM
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Claywilliams
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well if you have the cash get a recon goggle, that shit is amazing
not really an app but it does your speed and all the fun stuff
Feb 4 2013 2:47PM
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Shifties4Dayz
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actually, Sports Tracker does this. I use it when i go mountain biking and it actually gives you graphs showing speed relative to elevation.

and its free
Feb 4 2013 2:47PM
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Kimmler
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snow crew works well, and its free

Feb 4 2013 2:51PM
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JWeinstock
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i use SkiTracks. just pay a dollar or get the free version but the paid one i believe takes elevation
Feb 4 2013 3:41PM
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Ebmohst
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Hi, Tshombe with Navionics here...Here is a track I did with the Navionics Ski app a couple of weeks ago!  You can see a few of the things it tracks.  It will also give you a snow report, auto-routeing, & quite a few other things.  Let me know if you have questions.

Tshombe

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Mar 3 2013 10:54PM
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MikeWeinerONE
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SNOCRU is accurate with my truck speedometer. So I'd say SNOCru .. It has some other cool features as well in the BC or where you might use tracking.
Mar 4 2013 11:09AM
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LittleGiurk
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Its funny how wrong you are. Any app for skiing takes elevation into effect, ski tracks is pretty accurate. I tested it with a car, it calculates your speed by the rate of change in longitude and latitude, and takes into effect elevation as well then just converts it from degrees/hour to miles/hour. Ive tested it with cars on "hilly" roads and it works almost perfect. And theres no more accurate way of calculating speed than a gps. At least to my knowledge.

Mar 4 2013 3:41PM
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LittleGiurk
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free one does too.
Mar 4 2013 3:42PM
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BigDog
Posts: 711 - Karma: 814
I only have a limited data plan on my iphone. Does something like ski tracks use a lot of data? Like I know doing a simple google search uses a lot less than listening to pandora which is why i stopped using that while skiing.
Mar 4 2013 4:08PM
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yasgur99
Posts: 402 - Karma: 955
apps like ski tracks use a crap load of data especially if u use it all day. i have the 200 mb plan and if i use it for a weekend i get close to going over. i only recommend it for specified runs and then shutting it of. Hope i helped
Mar 4 2013 4:29PM
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BigDog
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Well you probably just saved me from going bankrupt haha thanks dude ,hooked up your karma
Mar 4 2013 4:34PM
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