I stumbled across this app on itunes. As I don't have an anemometer I have downloaded it and had a play.
http://goingapps.com/default.aspx
Now I think I know the answer, but it would be interesting if anyone with an anemometer and 59p spare could do some side to side tests and see what the accuracy is like.
Or perhaps some suggestions as to how/when to get the best out of it.
I also found the wind guru app which is pretty good.
Any other useful apps being used by KAPpers out there?
There are a lot of camera apps, including intervalometer ones, but that doesn't mean I'm about to put my precious iphone up in the air, not that I havn't flown expensive cameras, just that the iphone tends to be an integral part of your communication and online life and seeing it plummet to the ground would likely bring on heart failure for me.
As a lover of all things marine and KAP I have the Navionics UK/Holland marine charts app http://www.navionics.com/MobileMarineFeatures.asp Can't recommend highly enough. includes links to harbourmaster's phone numbers as well as highly detailed charts, with tide and current almanac included.
The included Google maps with sat views is pretty good as it comes. Interestingly the geocaching app uses a different map set and aerial views.
Lastly my love of ships and the sea got me loading Shipfinder http://web.me.com/lesmond/Apps/Main.html which I absolutely love, I was down at Aberdeen harbour yesterday for a business meeting and spent most of the meeting furtively checking out the details of all the ships in the harbour, best moment was during a coffee break, predicting the name of the next ship to come around the corner into the basin in front of us!
PhotoGeo is good, drops a pin on google maps of locations where photos were taken on your camera roll.
It was apps that support KAPing that interested me.
The navionics app looks interesting but probably a bit too sophisticated for my needs. But tide tables might be handy for planning coast bound sessions.
Have a look at my little PanoCalc app. It's made to be useful in (a) evaluating lens - camera combinations and the fields of view they produce and (b) planning panoramas of all kinds. And you don't have to send it up in the air !
Picked up the Droid today. I had been waffling over getting an iPhone for such a long time, but could never pull the trigger based upon AT&T's crappy service and coverage. I looking into the iPhone SDK a while ago, and was discouraged due to Apple denying so many apps from the App store. I can't imaging going through a ton of work programming an app, only to have Apple smugly say, "it duplicates functionality, so DENIED!" Therefore, I already have the Android SDK, and will be working on some apps for my new Droid, and maybe to the Android marketplace. The next step, is coming up with a KAP application that would be useful...
Targeting a proprietary OS would limit the market for a KAP gadget to those with that kind of device. Instead, how about an embedded WiFi server on your rig? Any handheld device with a WiFi browser could connect to the rig. If distance was a problem, a WiFI repeater hanging from the line in between the rig and ground might help.
I bought some hardware to do this a while back, but eventually it ended up in the pile of stuff I'll probably never get around to. I still think it would be a useful device, though.
