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Distance app

  • 28-05-2020 6:24pm
    #1
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭


    Any app that will let me input a distance I want to travel from my home,in a loop ,and map it for me? Not a radius app.. thanks


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  • #2
    Wanderer19
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Wanderer19


    Have you tried Strava and map my walk?


  • #3
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Wanderer19 wrote: »
    Have you tried Strava and map my walk?

    Not yet will they do that


  • #4
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    marklazarcovic wrote: »
    Any app that will let me input a distance I want to travel from my home,in a loop ,and map it for me? Not a radius app.. thanks

    MapMyRun

    Possibly the same as MapMyWalk but I use it measuring the routes I walk/run


  • #5
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 38,998 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Planning a route:
    Mapmyrun, mapmywalk, google maps, plots route. will measure a route for you on a map. I think they’ll all require some sort of manual input though.

    Strava will record and save a route that you walk/run/cycle in real time. And the premium version will generate a route based on the options you select.


  • #6
    Wanderer19
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Wanderer19


    marklazarcovic wrote: »
    Not yet will they do that
    You can do it on Strava, not sure how, I normally follow someone else or record it as I go.


    Mapmy run/walk/cycle are the same app, you can choose the activity.


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  • #7
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,019 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    I think what the OP is looking for is an app that will devise a route for him. He inputs a starting point and a desired distance, and the app then plots a loop route starting from that point of that distance.

    I'm not aware of an app that will do this.

    The best you can do is to devise a route yourself that you think might be about the desired distance, check on the app what distance it actually is, and then use the app to fine-tune it until it is the distance you want.

    Some of the exercise apps - e.g. mapmyrun - will suggest routes in a particular area (though I think not from a particular starting point) that other users have done, and you can look through these to see if any of them are about the distance you want.


  • #8
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 38,998 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    I think what the OP is looking for is an app that will devise a route for him. He inputs a starting point and a desired distance, and the app then plots a loop route starting from that point of that distance.

    I'm not aware of an app that will do this.

    Strava will do it. I mentioned it above.


  • #9
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users Posts: 26,019 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    Mellor wrote: »
    Strava will do it. I mentioned it above.
    So you did; my mistake.

    I'm a cheapskate, so I only have the free version of Strava.


  • #10
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    I'll give Strava a look, thanks folks


  • #11
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 38,998 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Peregrinus wrote: »
    So you did; my mistake.

    I'm a cheapskate, so I only have the free version of Strava.

    Fellow free version pauper here.
    Got an email about it the other day trying to seduce me over


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  • #12
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    Signed up,first two months free,cancel anytime,planned my routes,thanks again,best app I've looked at.


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