Running App

boofredlay

My wife is a runner and is enjoying the GPS feature on her iPhone but was looking for an app to map a route for her. Not to map the route she just ran or ones other people have run but an app that would map out a new route for her. Having a current location and giving a distance wanted to run then BAM a new route has been mapped.

For example."I am here and I want to run 3 miles, give me some route options please."

cosycat

If you fancied a new interest, you could probably knock up something yourself using the Google maps API.
https://developers.google.com/maps/

boofredlay

Thanks for that.

Box

Eric, an app like that sounds fantastic, I'd buy it in an instant. But, I suspect it would be awful unless fully developed with other runners input. When you think about the places navigation systems try to take you in the car I can imagine the horrors it would throw up for you in an unknown area.
This last week I drove from Germany, through Holland, ferry to Harwich and down to Sussex , then back again and I'd need more space than a quick reply to list the blatantly stupid things my various navigation systems suggested.
And in that part of the world, for example, a nav app will send you walking down a road that has no sidewalk/footpath.

But as a runner myself, I want one.

Chris Fullmer

On Google maps you can edit the live maps that are seen by everyone throughout the world and it lets you add info about if its a bike path, ped path, no sidewalk, dirt road, locked gate, etc. So maybe an app like this would get runners to slowly start inputting data about the areas around them, improving the maps accuracy for everyone.

It does sound like a great idea.

You can almost come close by doing the get directions, and put in your house address and the house address of your neighbor. Then click on the path and drag the pin to anywhere that you want to walk past. It will you give a route to your neighbors house via wherever you put the pin. And it tells you how far it was. And if you click on the "walking" tab it will even include walking paths if your town has any (we have a very large network of walking/biking paths here in Davis) and Maps did a pretty good job using them.