If you ride a bike for getting places, like my girlfriend and I do, you might consider a routing app, especially when riding in a new city.
As riding and looking at a route map on one's Smartphone are not usually ideal simultaneous activities, we decided to check out Co-Rider, an app by Applied Phasor out of Copenhagen.
The basic premise is that you plug in your route, and co-rider offers voice instruction, turn by turn, via GPS. One can select a variety of visual options, as depicted by the same route show twice in the photos later in this blog post.
I asked my girlfriend -- a very picky and professional cyclist -- to try out this app while she was biking to her Spanish class here in the very busy city of Buenos Aires. Her synopsis:
As riding and looking at a route map on one's Smartphone are not usually ideal simultaneous activities, we decided to check out Co-Rider, an app by Applied Phasor out of Copenhagen.
The basic premise is that you plug in your route, and co-rider offers voice instruction, turn by turn, via GPS. One can select a variety of visual options, as depicted by the same route show twice in the photos later in this blog post.
I asked my girlfriend -- a very picky and professional cyclist -- to try out this app while she was biking to her Spanish class here in the very busy city of Buenos Aires. Her synopsis:
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She also noted that she liked the voice directions; they made sense for bicycle riding re timing, for example | CONs
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Personally, I loved the fact that this app could also be used as a walking app. In January, I was staying with friends in a neighbourhood I was not familiar with, in Mississauga, Ontario. I would often prep my route before leaving, and then off I went, headphones on, and the app just told me where to go! :D
The really neat thing about this app, though, is that it can be used anywhere (we used it in both Canada and Argentina), and comes in several languages. I plan to have my children map out some bike routes when we get home to Canada, and listen to them in German!