What app you use to track you adventures?

[onuraiu]

Hi fellow adventures!

I've been travelling around the globe with different cars for 13y (last 14 months with Grenadier) and used different trackers and apps until I made my own, so I'm wondering now what you use, so I can maybe have some ideas how to improve my app

I don't know is it allowed to promote my free app or not, so just to be sure, I don't post that information for now...

 

[4x4Brick #1561]

2nd to last big trip I started out with a year long OnX subscription. The GPX my cousin found of our planned trip route was too big for OnX so we switched to GAIA (OnX rep says size no longer an issue I'm told). I found some of the multiple overlay / underlay maps an advantage of GAIA (BLM and wild fires) but it is NOT an intuitive program. And I'm still pretty savvy on the IT side. Last trip, Texas Grenadier Owner group at Palo Duro Canyon, the park, Merus Outdoors, has some kind of agreement with OnX. All the park's trails were already mapped on OnX and color coded for hard, medium, body damage ,etc... I still had a month left of my original OnX year subscription so I used OnX in the canyon with a Starlink and it worked well. I thought the route tracker of where I went was especially useful. Still have issues with both GAIA and OnX software's version on the Grenadier screen though Android Auto not having the same functions as the phone or tablet version. I for one would be curious what you have developed and been using. Either way before my next big trip I suspect I'll need to get a small 10ish inch (freedom units!) tablet and a suction cup windshield support arm. That should give me full access to whatever app, not mess with constant disconnects from the Grenadier wifi, and keep the android auto music streaming. Sounds trite but the music on a trip is pretty important to me.

 

[onuraiu]

1st I used satellite trackers (InReach, Spot), from apps I have used OsmAnd, GuruMaps. Lately I used FollowMee to save my active track to their server and then fetched it with my own script to display on my own map. Currently I made this: https://getwau.app. but reading your experience I already got some more ideas to implement, like track sharing and planning for upcoming adventures. Currently my app only saves tracks and you can share POI's. Now I need to figure out how to share tracks with friends without have a need for servers (I want to keep privacy and security).. But yes, thank you very much for your input, I was out of ideas, now I have many