Love some of the new features on the Beta

[Chad Everhart]

Am running Beta on an Motorola Razr Maxx. First thing I noticed right off the bat was being able to drop a pin right from the map! This is exciting to me because I mainly use this app for Upland Bird Hunting. I track coveys of quail in Arizona along with Sharptails and Hungarian Partridge In Montana from year to year. Pulling up a menu and choosing waypoints was a bit cumbersome and took to long while trying to reload a shotgun and keep track of downed birds and dogs making retrieves.

I did read on Trello that locate me was off for some users. I experienced this as well. Locate me seemed to be 1/4 mile off.

While recording a track it was recorded and highlighted spot on but my little icon (red triangle) was still off.

If I double tapped locate me to put the map in heads up or direction of travel up the map was actually flipped 180 degrees but the compass rose showed correct direction. The track was recorded correctly when this happened.

I did have the app crash multiple times. Seemed to happen most when I was trying to go from menu to menu or zooming in or out too fast. Also happened when I would unlock phone screen to look at map.

When I selected trip and was recording track Speed was not displayed, and neither was Average Speed. everything else was displayed correctly.

I love the base map MapBox Aerial! The zoom and clarity of this map is phenominal. It does appear to be a satellite image from back in 2010 though.

While trying to enter a waypoint I noticed I could only enter degrees and minutes. No seconds.

I like that when you open the menus you can just sideswipe to get back to the map and get on with your trek.

Thank You and looking forward to the next update!

Chad

 

 

 

 

[Andrew Johnson]

Couple of notes below... thanks for writing!

Andrew Johnson

Co-founder

www.GaiaGPS.com

415 335 7447

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Chad Everhart <frfgh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Am running Beta on an Motorola Razr Maxx. First thing I noticed right off the bat was being able to drop a pin right from the map! This is exciting to me because I mainly use this app for Upland Bird Hunting. I track coveys of quail in Arizona along with Sharptails and Hungarian Partridge In Montana from year to year.

Super, we just added that in last release, will polish it up a bit more in the upcoming release. 

Lead Android developer went to Burning Man for a week though, so no release this week :)

 

Pulling up a menu and choosing waypoints was a bit cumbersome and took to long while trying to reload a shotgun and keep track of downed birds and dogs making retrieves.

I did read on Trello that locate me was off for some users. I experienced this as well. Locate me seemed to be 1/4 mile off.

I'm glad to hear people are checking that out! I think it's a really neat tool for outlining the basic plan and collaborating.

 

While recording a track it was recorded and highlighted spot on but my little icon (red triangle) was still off.

If I double tapped locate me to put the map in heads up or direction of travel up the map was actually flipped 180 degrees but the compass rose showed correct direction. The track was recorded correctly when this happened.

I did have the app crash multiple times. Seemed to happen most when I was trying to go from menu to menu or zooming in or out too fast. Also happened when I would unlock phone screen to look at map.

Yeah, I'm seeing a bunch of crash logs on our crash logging tool (Crittercism). We'll use these logs and notes like yours to fix the crashes.

 

When I selected trip and was recording track Speed was not displayed, and neither was Average Speed. everything else was displayed correctly.

Marked for fixing.

 

I love the base map MapBox Aerial! The zoom and clarity of this map is phenominal. It does appear to be a satellite image from back in 2010 though. 

Based on usage patterns, I think that is going to have to be a paid layer, at least for caching it. We'll see though... we've been observing download patterns in the beta group. It might be enough to limit the size of cached maps.

 

While trying to enter a waypoint I noticed I could only enter degrees and minutes. No seconds.

Noted for fixing. waypoint marking will work for all coordinate types soon. 

 

I like that when you open the menus you can just sideswipe to get back to the map and get on with your trek.

Thank You and looking forward to the next update!

Thanks for your notes!

 

Chad

 

 

 

 

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