Bikemap - Cycling Map & GPS Reviews – Page 6
5/5 rating based on 92 reviews. Read all reviews for Bikemap - Cycling Map & GPS for iPhone.
Bikemap - Cycling Map & GPS is free iOS app published by Bikemap GmbH
Crashes so much it is unusable
Peter Wolfe
Solves the problem of finding routes in a new city, but it crashes every 1-2 minutes and then forgets all of the progress I've made and starts over. I have a new, fast iPad with a fast broadband connection. But it hangs up the whole ipad, you need to kill the app then it forgets everything you are doing. So aggravating
Muy justa
fei5
La app hace lo que dice, pero todavía le falta mucho que mejorar.Las rutas no son precisas,no puedes elegir entre bicicleta de carretera / montaña, etc...
Great route planning
bernman_2000
Love the ability to create routes on the computer and follow using phone. Tracking works well for capturing routes on the road, but really wish it had a time-to-distance feature. How long did it take to get to the peak? Where did I stop and rest? Another great addition would be integration to the camera. Take a pic on the ride and marks the location on the map. Upload the pics to the website when you get home. Great app. Could use a few features.
Crash!
Mleegoebel
App stalls, hangs, and crashes on iPhone 5 with iOS 8.0.2. Have yet to open and use app successfully since downloading the app.
Great idea, dismal execution
SFConcha
I was excited when I found this app. I moved to a new city that I heard was great for cycling but I needed some routes. This app was exactly what I was looking for. I installed it but can't have it open for more than a minute without having it crash. Can't use it at all. What a disappointment!
Buena app para deporte
sKiNoMiGuE
La aplicación es muy buena pero el día de hoy q salgo abro la app y se me cierra enseguida!.!. La vuelvo abrir y se cierra!!.. Para q corrijan ese problema!.!.
Made me a hero in the rain!
Ollyappleseed
This app for cycling fills a unique space in the world of cycling apps, where many seem more about 'the quantified self' or are for crowing about one's latest ride on social media. In contrast, this is a valuable tool. Imagine visiting a city and having a local or at least a prior rider share a visible and viable route for you to follow. And you can store such advance intel right in the app: multiple routes, even. Just returned from Belgium, where I led 3 other riders around on juants between medieval cities, as a first-time visitor myself. As an experienced cyclist and hiker, I'm used to good maps and am usually able to 'suss' out a route in unknown territory. I nevertheless found the ability to save other riders' routes in the "Route Collection" part of this app to be invaluable. Did not need active internet, but used the internal GPS in my phone. Though you won't be guaranteed that someone has already laid a track to exactly where you want to go, for us it worked out beautifully. (often we followed just the portion of track that pertained to our desired destination.) Even in bicycle-friendly Belgium, I saw that just studying the terrain on a map could be fraught with many go-arounds and false starts for someone not familiar with the country. I learned through trial and error on my own in the beginning that there are key places where one will do better to leave one canal and join another, and sections where industrial activity forced go-arounds, etc. With this app, I was able to pick out previous riders' blue-lined routes and carefully preview them on my iPhone 5s. This seems to cache the map on the device in the app. (I did have ability to turn on Data if needed, which I believe is wise in general--sometimes users accidentally fail to scroll around enough to cache desired map tiles beforehand.) We set out, and I simply noted our location arrow as we followed along. There were places along the Gent-Brugge canal where our invisible friend who'd tracked this route had taken detours. To us it seemed he'd probably just gone off the canal to get something to eat; my friends who couldn't read the Flemish sign thought we should just continue on the canal. Yet the miles of truly helpful route we'd already covered gave me the instinct to suggest we follow his detour. And my very sparse Dutch seemed to indicate that the very passable section of canal we could see beyond a simple pipe gate in front of us had some kind of prohibition against bikes (fietsen) in what might be a "fishing/wildlife/locals only" area. (that turned out to be so, and we encountered one more section like this.) We were riding in heavy rain, and it was so nice to avoid stopping often to route-find; just looking for street signs and studying intersections takes time; stopping to discuss route problems makes it hard get a good workout. We didn't even need to puzzle out the many 'fietsknoppen' numbered route signs, that are so numerous they actually add confusion: to follow those signs one feels like you're on a coded treasure hunt, noting numbers and junctions and transfers to other sections... Though their existence is proof of the wonderful surplus of bike networks in this part of the world. But we were able to just keep riding following the saved route! I had my phone in a waterproof case on my stem. I only wish we'd had more time to explore the many other riders' recorded tracks. As you can see, I got great use out of this app. I intend to do my bit back home now to save some favorite routes around me. Even though you can't build a route in advance by plotting on a map, it's probably for the best that you instead track yourself on an actual ride.