GPS-A-Sketch
Turn your run/bike/walk into a giant Etch-a-Sketch
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Turn your run/bike/walk into a giant Etch-a-Sketch
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Name Shark
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This was in the Presidio of SF, to be exact at Ft. Winfield Scott where there's a big open and empty field that makes it easier to draw patterns.
Just like with the real sketching toy it takes a bit of practice to draw shapes. Most days I prefer to just have the app going in the background during a bike ride or long walk, I simply like seeing the random shapes that get drawn regardless of any planned route.
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And here's what I got:
Bummer. @joro1: Perhaps it isn't tracking when the phone screen sleeps? I'm not sure where it lost the information, but you must not be tracking absolute GPS location, but rather relative location. Are you throwing away data if you don't know how the user got to a specific location?
I still love the idea! I'm looking forward to updates so I can properly "etch-a-P".Product HuntGPS-A-Sketch
With short distances in an outdoor space and with good GPS signal you can pretty much trace a map, but if you travel longer distances or if there are a lot of GPS samples the images do become more abstracted.
The app's collecting and saving all GPS samples during a drawing session, so these could (and probably should) be filtered and processed through the e.g. Google or Apple map APIs to make more precise drawings.
The goal is for the app to feel similar to a real Etch-A-Sketch, walking biking or running the equivalent of turning the toy's knobs. I had thought using our own custom algorithm would produce more interesting drawings. But the feedback I've been receiving definitely correlates with @bjamut 's experience earlier today, i.e. the app would be more fun if there was at least an option for less abstracted mapping and more accurate drawing.
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Login (and sharing on FB or TW) is totally optional, so if you prefer there's also anonymous sketching too.GPS-A-SketchGPS-A-Sketch
This upcoming Watch version is a second screen and remote control fitness companion to the iPhone app. Several new walk/bike/run related features are incorporated too, including the ordinary stuff you'd expect in any fitness app-- e.g. distance & time/duration (some of the empty red border around the sketching area is reserved for these).
