First track from a smart phone

After a long pause I've been spending the last month working on a mapping app to run on your phone. This is a progressive web app, or PWA, so although it runs in your browser it acts more like a phone app (so can appear full screen without browser decoration, doesn't appear in your list of open tabs etc). As part of this development I'm aiming to allow you to share your position with other people while you're walking and also to record your track ... sort of.

On Sunday beth walked through the Cairngorms from Coylumbridge to the Linn of Dee while I waited at the far end to pick her up and, as she did the walk, she logged her position in the app and from that I've generated a track which you can see below:

You're welcome to try the app now. Start at https://www.walklakes.co.uk/mobile ... but it's very much under development at the moment so please don't rely on it as your primary navigation tool and don't be surprised if things don't work smoothly (there's currently an annoying bug if you zoom in/out while you've got your location shown for example) but I will be doing an official launch soonish.

By lentilbake on 31/07/24 at 2:46pm

Sorry, being a bit thick here, how did Beth log the position in the app? I can't see a way of doing this. What am I missing?

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By TallPaul on 31/07/24 at 2:48pm (last edited 31/07/24 at 2:48pm)

Every time she asked the mobile app for her location by pressing the button top right it logged the position and time.

There is, as yet, no facility for anyone else to create a track from that data but we are recording it already.

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By TallPaul on 02/08/24 at 11:34am

I wrote:

(there's currently an annoying bug if you zoom in/out while you've got your location shown for example)

This is now fixed. We're getting there. Slowly.

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