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Cell phone App.

PostPosted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 10:04 pm
by Bryan Meenen
With the proliferation of cell phones these days and the number of available satellites they can track. Is there any interest in developing an app for collecting GPS data? I am using a couple of different apps that will allow one second data collection and importing that data into tru-traffic. The data is more accurate than my older gps equipment collects. It has to be imported and thus flagged as imported even though it is a higher quality.

Re: Cell phone App.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 3:25 am
by bullock
Thank you for the interesting comment and suggestion.

I had not put much thought into creating a cell phone app, as I assumed (or hoped) that there was already a suitable app available for collecting the data. I had not considered the disadvantage that the so-collected data would get marked implicitly as imported. I'll put more thought into this, now.

In the meantime, what apps have you found with 1-second resolution and good accuracy? Other users, and I, would value your recommendations.

Re: Cell phone App.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:04 pm
by Bryan Meenen
We are currently testing two apps

Alpine Quest by: Psyberia https://www.alpinequest.net/
track_20170906_125731_pm DONE.xlsx
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and
Travel Time and Delay Study by: Portable Studies (By Afemas LLC) http://www.portablestudies.com/
1300 S MAEB01.xlsx
A run from this morning
(94.06 KiB) Downloaded 989 times


We have had good luck with both.

Bryan

Re: Cell phone App.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:22 pm
by bullock
Thank you!

I forgot to mention: You can reduce the annoyance of the "Imported" labeling by turning off the warning in View: Preferences: Warnings: Trip Logs have an unverifiable source, for example, imported from a text file.