15 posts tagged with "Rider app"

You can test an app for weeks at a desk and learn less than you learn in one afternoon with it mounted on a handlebar. This week was the bill for a real ride.

You get home from four days in the mountains with two hundred photos, a GPX track and no intention of ever writing a trip report. We think that is a shame, so we built the thing that writes it for you.

Two threads this week, and they meet in the same place: the moment you stop looking at a phone and start riding.

Here is the uncomfortable truth about a navigation app for adventure riding: the better the road, the worse the coverage. The places worth going are exactly the places your phone gives up.

So this fortnight we made the phone stop needing us.

A week ago FastGIS was a browser tool for running GRASS modules. This week it learned to plan a motorcycle route — and it turns out those two things want the same foundations.