You’re traveling. You don’t know the area. You want to go on a 5 mile run. At your hotel, you use your laptop to create a 5 mile route on gmap-pedometer. Before your run, you grab your phone, start google maps (navigator) app, select the route you created, put on your headphones... off you go on a hassle free run with turn-by-turn directions. No need to memorize the route. No need to pull out a map.
I’ve been searching for ways to do this for several years now. Just recently I was able to create a custom route on google maps (under My Maps, Create). It has turn-by-turn directions (that can be printed out...), but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get the route into my phone’s google maps navigator. I don’t think we’ll get this feature from google anytime soon. If gmap pedometer can hack into google maps I think it would be great if a gmap nav app was created to load and play back these routes.
Tip: The best way to carry your phone on a run is with a FlipBelt. I got one for Christmas last year. If you use it to carry your phone in the middle of your back, waist high, you don’t even know it’s there.
An example of an awesome new feature:
You’re traveling. You don’t know the area. You want to go on a 5 mile run. At your hotel, you use your laptop to create a 5 mile route on gmap-pedometer. Before your run, you grab your phone, start google maps (navigator) app, select the route you created, put on your headphones... off you go on a hassle free run with turn-by-turn directions. No need to memorize the route. No need to pull out a map.
I’ve been searching for ways to do this for several years now. Just recently I was able to create a custom route on google maps (under My Maps, Create). It has turn-by-turn directions (that can be printed out...), but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get the route into my phone’s google maps navigator. I don’t think we’ll get this feature from google anytime soon. If gmap pedometer can hack into google maps I think it would be great if a gmap nav app was created to load and play back these routes.
Tip: The best way to carry your phone on a run is with a FlipBelt. I got one for Christmas last year. If you use it to carry your phone in the middle of your back, waist high, you don’t even know it’s there.