A Solid GPS Tip for Snowboarders

For many snowboarders, simply packing up and heading to the slopes is a great experience, more than enough reason to get out of the house on a cold winter day. But if you enjoy integrating a little technology into your activities, you won’t want to miss this GPS tip. In this article, we’ll be showing you an App that can track your, well, tracks throughout the day, telling you where you’ve been and what you’ve been doing. For the snowboarding geek, there isn’t a better App out there.

It’s called the iTrailmap 3D App for the iPhone 3G, and it comes with a couple of features. First, the aforementioned tracking feature integrated with GPS allows you to tell exactly what you’ve been doing all day. Ever wonder what your favorite routes are? You’ll be able to browse them easily using the iTrailmap App, viewing your habits throughout the day with the tap of your iPhone. For many people, this alone would be worth the $4.99 price of the App.

If that wasn’t enough, you can also find trail maps of some 500 snowboarding resorts in the iTrailmap App database. If you come across a resort that’s not in the App, send an e-mail to the App’s creators, as they’re constantly trying to update it and make the information it contains more comprehensive.

What exactly might you be able to do with this information? Granted, it won’t totally change your life, but it will make snowboarding even more fun. If you’ve ever been running and used a GPS tracker to track your route, you understand how much can be added to an experience if you get a bird’s-eye view of what’s been going on. You also know that having GPS information at your disposal can be a great incentive to learn more about what running/snowboarding trails you can use.

Having a GPS App like this one doesn’t give you license to take greater risks, but it does help you to find resorts you might not have known about before. If you always wanted to integrate GPS with the way you snowboard, this is the App you’ll want to download. Even if you’ve never thought of yourself as a GPS person, this may be the way to get introduced to the technology. The price is very reasonable, and it might just inspire you to keep getting out of the house!

Originally posted 2010-01-19 03:53:01.

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