With the new milage this year and the re-routes does anyone know if guthooks is planning on updating their app?
With the new milage this year and the re-routes does anyone know if guthooks is planning on updating their app?
Probably. It won't be that far off for 99% of the trail.
The app is updated regularly.
Are the app updates automatic or do you have to go online to update?
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I have an Iphone, and it notifies me of when my apps need an update.
Trail Miles: 4,980.5
AT Map 1: Complete 2013-2021
Sheltowee Trace: Complete 2020-2023
Pinhoti Trail: Complete 2023-2024
Foothills Trail: 47.9
AT Map 2: 279.4
BMT: 52.7
CDT: 85.4
I have an android phone and you can set it to auto-update as well. Worse case, go into the google play store and check your installed apps to see if any need to be updated.
AT: 695.7 mi
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I contacted Guthook recently about a question and in their response to me they mentioned that they're working on a new version to be released soon. I have an iPhone as well so I expect the update to be seamless.
I really like the app, but can only use it on my phone. The app says it is not compatible with my Android tablet and won't install. I like to use the app from the couch when planning (or dreaming about) a trip. The convenience of being able to use the larger screen tablet would be nice.
LOL... I'm about the most frugal person you'll ever meet. The $50 (on sale) Amazon Fire tablet is plenty enough for me. I can't bring myself to spend a few hundred bucks on an ipad, when the Fire checks my email and browses the web just fine. Plus if I break it or lose it I just buy another one and barely shed a tear.
Anyway, not sure why the Guthook app is not compatible with my tablet. The Google Play Store won't even let me install it, and it's not available in the Amazon app store. For now I'll just continue to use my phone.
Ah, it's a Fire Tablet, that's why. For some reason, Amazon felt it was necessary to use a version of Android that doesn't work with the standard Android maps, so if we offered our apps on the Amazon store, you wouldn't be able to use the maps... which kind of defeats the purpose ;-)
Atlas Guides/Guthook's Guides -- Hiking Apps
gut hooks is a great app...the mileage is terrible..i feel sometimes it makes a direct line instead of actually using the trail...just be mindful..its awesome and I love it
Can't speak for the AT version,but I've used the JMT version and didn't notice any inaccuracies where the app wasn't following the trail.
As for mileage begin "off"... well at least when it comes to the JMT, I've yet to see two sources match up on mileage. For a given trail intersection, I would get a different mile marker in Guthook, Wenk Data Book, and National Geo map booklet.
I've been meaning to do a blog post about this for years :-) If you just take a GPS track of the AT and run it through Google Earth, it comes up with a length of something like 2000 miles, which, of course, is way off from the official mileage. There's just so much variation between GPS tracks and wheel measurements, not to mention varying standards for original measurements, it's kind of an inexact science. The AT and a few other trails are kind of anomalous in that there's a managing organization that has an official mileage chart for the trail-- and because of that we have a pretty complex program that runs through the entire ATC data book to true-up our GPS-calculated distances to the official distances in the book.
My guess with the JMT is that Wenk and Nat Geo each use some different way of measuring their GPS tracks. If there's no "official" mileage, then we often just go with our standard GPS measurements, since there's no telling how accurate anyone else's measurements are :-)
Atlas Guides/Guthook's Guides -- Hiking Apps