http://stravaiger.com/blog/tags/viewranger/ Recent content in Viewranger on eBothy Blog Hugo en-us Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://stravaiger.com/blog/2012/06/15/viewranger-app-update/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://stravaiger.com/blog/2012/06/15/viewranger-app-update/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been using the <a title="Viewranger" href="http://www.viewranger.com/en-gb">Viewranger</a> 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&rsquo;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.</p> <p><a title="Viewranger app in action by Stravaiger" href="http://stravaiger.com/blog/images/posts/viewranger_app_update/viewranger_app_in_action-7189741761.png"><img src="http://stravaiger.com/blog/images/posts/viewranger_app_update/viewranger_app_in_action-7189741761-800px.png" alt="Viewranger app in action" width="333" height="500" /></a></p>