Discussion: GPS & Route gadget

Anyone have suggestions for an easy-to-use, reasonably priced tracker that I can wear for meets and use with route gadget? Doing this "technology thing" would be totally foreign and out of character for me, but I'd really like to know where I'm wandering off to when I get off course. Overall distance, etc., would be nice to know as well.

I have had good results with the igot-u from maplins for about $50. You can download your route onto computer via a usb cable, and from there to routegadget or - my favourite - Quickroute.

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I'm so uninitiated to the technology that I've never even heard of Quickroute. Thanks! I'll check it out.

Looking for a recommendation for an iPhone app that can record my track. Just something I can put on the phone and keep in my pocket and then download / upload to RouteGadget. No bells or whistles, just trying to simplify the process of getting my track into RouteGadget.

bigfoot: you (probably, prove me wrong people!) won't be able to do it straight from phone to routegadget, but you can do it very easily with other things. I use a thing called runkeeper (google it or app store it) which you can upload tracks to (i.e. you click start, do your activity, click stop and then it uploads it) and then you can log in to the site and download the gpx file which you can then upload to routegadget.
A quick google gave this which may be better

As a consumer-level GPS user but cellphone caveman (I use it for talking) how does the phone technology compare? Is it using satellites or cellphone station triangulation or both, what's the bottom line for accuracy and (in general terms) coverage?

I've used a few of the iphone apps in the past (nike+, runkeeper and micoach), although I now exclusivly use my garmin. In terms of the actual app I think they're all fairly similar, the difference comes down to the websites and as far as I'm concerned runkeeper is by far the best, unless Nike and Adidas have improved their offerings since I last used them. Also the good thing about the runkeeper site is that it allows you to upload logs from your garmin too.

I generally always my garmin too but when I forget it I use my phone, it works pretty well.

I tried out the RunKeeper app this weekend during a night-O. Seems to have worked fine with a reasonably accurate route, other than the fact that my phone battery died about half a kilometer from the finish. Several times during the course I thought there were others near me as I could faintly hear voices, until i finally figured out that every 5 minutes the app was reporting my time, distance, and pace even though the phone was muted. Turned that feature off....

Looks like a keeper.