There is just one little bit of functionality that I think is missing: optional position update emails at regular timed intervals. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks for the comment, the offsetting is definitely something which will come in the near future.įantastic app! no other anchor watch or geofencing app for the iphone can raise an automatic alarm without constantly sending enormous amounts of data to some external server web site. Moving the center location is something which we are thinking about, perhaps we can calculate the orientation from the trail and use that to determine how the ship is turning around the anchored position, I’ve some ideas but I need some sailing data (hence time to sail 🙂 to figure this one out.Īs for quitting the App, on a 3G or iPad it will kill the App so no monitoring, on a 3GS or iPhone4 running iOS4.x it will run in the background (eating up your battery unless you disabled this in the setting). You will just get a grey screen instead of Google background, but the GPS will work just fine.Īs for numerical values, there is a new version awaiting Apple’s approval which (on popular user request) shows the anchor length as a number, and you can choose meter, feet or nautical miles (i know that’s quite a bit of chain :-). Of course you can disable data roaming (Settings App->General->Network->Cellular Data = OFF). These sorts of changes make is a useful app. looks like another trip up the garden to find out. When I set it then come out of the app and back in it is unset! does this mean it is not set when I leave….
So it would be nice to move the anchor location as if you drop later you may well already be at the extremity of your range. It is somthing I would normally do later (Tpically on the GPS) but you app should be alot easier. I think most people know how much chain they have down.Īlso setting the anchor location as you drop anchor is not practical. The reason for this I like to charter overseas and tend to have data roaming off so that I do not run up lots of extra phone charges, and would want to be sure that google map was not using up lots of dosh.Ĭan you have a numerical value on the range in Meters and the option to set the range in meters. Just got the Anchor Drag app and have been messing arround with it in the garden… looks good thanks.
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