Went for a hike again yesterday. I'm in NY and it has finally cooled down to a comfortable sub 72F degrees for hiking. Hopefully I'll be able to get some good hikes in before it winter comes and it gets too cold. I really got out of shape by not hiking the past year.
So of course I brought my Gamrin Oregon with me to trace my tracks. I picked a section of Harriman State Park in NY (suburban NYC) that I had not tracked before. I basically picked up a section of trail, the Suffern Bear Mt trail, that I had left off at last time I was serious about putting these trails on the map. We'll see if I stick with it for a while and get back to working on the Appalachian Trail like I was talking about in my prior diary entry.
I also had a new addition with me that I got last year, but had not yet really brought on a major hike, my DROID phone. I've been on some minor little geocaching hikes with it and use OSMTracker to trace my tracks. So when I got home from the hike, I not only uploaded my Garmin tracks of yesterday's hikes, but I also finally uploaded the 8 different tracks that I had stored on my phone. For yesterday's hike, it was cool to see the slight difference between the tracks of the Garmin and the tracks of the Droid. From the looks of it, it appears that my Droid was more sensitive. I'll see about increasing the settings on the Garmin to get more accurate tracks. The trade off being, with limited memory, that I have to make sure I don't fill up the memory before my hike is over.
Maybe seeking some advice here. Since I uploaded the OSM Apps to my Droid a year ago, I wonder if there is a consensus on what Android smartphone apps work best? I'm using OSMTracker to record my tracks. It is nice to see the little notes, like parking, show up on Potlatch (the new version looks great BTW) waiting for me to edit over. I once tried something called Vespucci but never quite got it. Osmdroid, I feel, is best for just viewing the maps. So, any other recommendations?