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GPSKits Adds Advanced GPS Functions to iPhone

Friday August 15, 2008 10:07 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Garafa's GPSKit [$9.99, App Store] for iPhone provides you with more advanced GPS functionality and tracking for your iPhone.

- Dashboard - see real time information
- Tracks - save your path, view in Google Earth or Maps
- Waypoints - Save points of interest

While GPSKit's solution is $9.99, there are other applications on the App Store that provide portions of similar functionality:

- GPS Tracker [Free] - real-time tracking service
- Speed [Free] - real time speedometer
- PathTracker [$0.99] - real time stats, save your path, also for runners/bikers
- Speedster GPS [$0.99] - speed and altitude in real time
- gpsCompass [$1.99] - real time stats
- Distance Meter [$2.99] - distance tracker
- iTrail [$2.99] - distance and path tracker for runners/bikers
- RunKeeper [$9.99] - track running/biking paths and stats

All of these applications require an iPhone 3G with GPS for best performance. The makers of GPSKit provided this video demo of their app.

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bbplayer5
Posted: 49 months ago
Pretty much all the same information you can find on the dashboard of your car... Speed, traveled distance, etc... Pretty useless.

Only thing its good for it... maybe... altitude? Which I wouldnt use for anything...
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80s Fan
Posted: 49 months ago
Looks pretty cool to me. Not sure if I would agree with you, bbplayer5. I have a Garmin GPS and it looks to me like the GPSKits actually has some of the same features at the Garmin unit.

Question -- Once you've reached your minute mark and the iPhone automatically powers off, does the GPS stop tracking you and does it stop recording all the various data values shown in the video? Just curious.
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Chip NoVaMac
Posted: 49 months ago
Great list of GPS apps as well... giving me pause as to why I haven't upgraded my iPhone 1G yet...

I have a Garmin nuvi 770 for my car.... but like the idea of my iPhone being a GPS device in my city travels. As a photographer it would be great to have a map of the treks I have made with way points...
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dejo
Posted: 49 months ago

Pretty much all the same information you can find on the dashboard of your car... Speed, traveled distance, etc... Pretty useless.

Cuz you wouldn't need this information outside of a car? :confused:
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projectle
Posted: 49 months ago
I will so be using this application the next time my speedometer breaks, the clock on my radio dies, and the mountains disappear.
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crsd36
Posted: 49 months ago
There's a vid in another post of this in action and shows more features that are not shown in the screen cap, the most noticable being the fact that the dashboard is customizable. For example, you could change 2 of the widgets to show Lattiude and Longitude.
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kjs862
Posted: 49 months ago
I just downloaded the speedo. Cool for having on the boat.
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bbplayer5
Posted: 49 months ago

Cuz you wouldn't need this information outside of a car? :confused:


I often times love to know how fast im walking and what direction im facing because using the unpredictable sun is sometimes disheartening.
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CADer
Posted: 49 months ago
I can see myself adding in Geo cache locations on this app and being able to navigate to the closest! - Very cool now all I need is the new iphone!
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Mr. Zorg
Posted: 49 months ago

Question -- Once you've reached your minute mark and the iPhone automatically powers off, does the GPS stop tracking you and does it stop recording all the various data values shown in the video? Just curious.

The iPhone doesn't automatically power off, it just locks the screen and shuts the screen off. The phone is still on, and as far as I've been able to tell, the running app is still running (accidentally drained the battery that way leaving a game running). But you *can* turn off the auto-lock if you're really concerned about it. :)
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