App: Hike2

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/116a5b59-29ae-4397-a70e-907d7e5f8e44

The next generation of the Hike app. With additional memory and sensors on the vivoactive HR, all be looking at adding new stuff. Right now, it makes use of the hardware compass and barometric Altimeter!

Like Hike, it's stats up and once it gets GPS, press start to begin the recording. There are then a number of screens you can swipe through to see data, like time-distance, pace-speed, altitude data, lat/lon data, and a chart that shows your hike so far. Pressing the back button while recording marks a waypoint, and pressing start pauses the recording, and gives you the option to resume, save, or discard the recording.

To learn about some of the basic functionaly here, see the thread for the initial version:

http://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?335082-App-Hiking

Please post questions and problems here.

Top Replies

All Replies

seilogramp over 8 years ago

Maybe GSM?

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Sorry - I'm too used to using acronyms! GCM is Garmin Connect Mobile. It's the app that runs on your phone....

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Version 2.03

Added support for the Edge 820 and Fenix Chronos
Added an Option for Auto-laps. By default, laps are marked when a waypoint is marked (manual laps). In settings in in Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin express, you can set an auto-lap distance (.5,1, or 5 km/mile). With auto-laps you can still mark and save waypoints, but they won't be marked when uploaded to Garmin Connect

Update:

I forgot to mention a change on the main scree. To the right of the distance, is a number. This is the current number of laps marked. If you are using waypoints to make laps, the background will be the same as the rest of the screen. If you are using auto-laps, the background and foreground will be inversed.

bankian over 8 years ago

British National Grid references

I love the app but it would be so much more useful for all UK hikers to be able to display the lat/lon in British National Grid (BNG) format. Is there any chance you could add that? I've found a link to some code to do the conversion...

http://www.dorcus.co.uk/carabus/ll_ngr.html

Thanks

Ian

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

I love the app but it would be so much more useful for all UK hikers to be able to display the lat/lon in British National Grid (BNG) format. Is there any chance you could add that? I've found a link to some code to do the conversion...

http://www.dorcus.co.uk/carabus/ll_ngr.html

Thanks

Ian

I've been asked before and it's on my "I'm thinking about it" list. (There are more than just the UK with something like this and what/how to I handle that is my concern. Right now I just use the formats handled in my interface to the firmware)

I'll look at the link you provided as that might help. Thanks!

tylosaurus over 8 years ago

UTM coordinates would be useful to people all over.

kra.kuester over 7 years ago

On my wishlist

It would be great if I could use an uploaded track (as for running) with Hike2.

Or, did I miss a function :-( ?

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

With Hike2 you can't use an uploaded a track, but you can save your waypoints between usages.

kra.kuester over 7 years ago

Question

Can anyone tell me how to upload a set of waypoints for a walk with hike2?

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

You can't upload a set of waypoints. Here's how the saved waypoints work:

If you go for a hike and mark some waypoints, when you are done and ready to save the hike, the menu has a selection called "Also Save WPs". This will save not only your hike, but the waypoints you marked.

The next time you use Hike2, while waiting for GPS and the start button, there is an indication on the screen for "Load Saved WP's" If that is green/on, the waypoints you'd saved are loaded, show up on the list of waypoints with distance, etc, and on the chart page as a square instead of a circle. In settings there is a setting for "Display of Loaded WPs ", where you can select the proximity of loaded WP's you want to display (so you'll only see the "loaded waypoints" within a 1 km/mile for example. (this allows you to have saved WP's from different hikes that might be miles apart, and only see the WP's that relate to your current hike/location.

So for example, consider this:

go on a hike at location A, mark waypoints, and use "Also save WP's" when you're done.
go on a hike at location B, load saved waypoints, and mark some new ones for this hike. (if location A is a ways away, you won't see those as WPs listed or the chart as they are "too far away". Mark your waypoints for the Location B hike, and again when you're done, "Also Save WPs".

Next time you hike at location A, again load your saved Wp's. You see the WP's that relate to location A (that are within the range you set), but not those for location B. When you hike location B, you'll see the waypoints that relate to it.

With up to 50 wps, and not all of them displayed, there is an option to show the WP numbers on the chart instead of just a dot/square. Press Menu, and there is an option to "toggle WP numbers". so on the chart page you can see the number of the WP, and can switch back to the list of waypoints and see the direction and distance to that waypoint.

Again, the waypoints that are a circle are waypoints you maked on your current hike and also shown on your path on the chart page, while the squares are your "loaded" waypoints, and may not yet be on your path, if you haven't come close to them yet. As you move the "loaded waypoints within range is based on your current location, so the loaded WPs that you haven't come close to will come and go as you get closer or further away from them.

There is only one list of waypoints used. If you don't load your saved waypoints, but mark new ones, and then use "also save Waypoints", you'll lose your previously saved WPs. The list will also be lost if you uninstall/reinstall Hike2.