codename nevis the hill identifier app

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A while ago I asked on twitter if anyone had good ideas for an iPhone app for use outdoors and an idea came in for an app that can identify hills.

It’s always an awful choice to have to make. Go to the hills or work on something to do with the hills. However, with lots of bad weather providing an excuse I’ve found the time to develop an app, codename ‘Nevis’, that does just that. Identifies hills.

viewranger app update

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been using the Viewranger app on and off for a while but only used it in anger yesterday on Fionn Bheinn. I turned off wifi, bluetooth and all that and turned location services off on all the apps that were requesting it apart from Viewranger and the phone battery lasted all day with the app constantly active. On first start it takes about 5mins to get a fix but that’s more to do with the phone hardware than the app and the direction indicator can be a bit dodgy. At one point on Ben Wyvis it was showing us on the summit, which was correct but the direction indicator, when pointing back along the ridge on the app, was pointing the phone off to the south of the ridge. Not ideal. But the position fixing is spot on.

IOS on eBothy Blog

codename nevis the hill identifier app

viewranger app update