SNOWMOBILING NEW YORK STATE

iPhone App

Jan 11th: App is now available in AppStore. Thanks for your patience.

New for the 2011-2012 season. Our app includes trails and intersections, businesses (lodging, dining, gas, dealers, others), public parking and clubhouses along with your current GPS location and a choice of background maps.

Once loaded on your phone, you will not need reception to view trail and business data.

All corridor trails statewide are included, along with secondary & local trails, clubhouses and public parking for participating clubs. (There are 53 participating clubs this season).

The first time you use the app, allow a few minutes for all 45 counties worth of trail data to download from our server to your phone. The app will automatically check for data updates once a day, assuming you have reception and download any new trail or business info to your phone's memory.

Opening splash screen	County selection list, alphabetical by region, Old Forge Inlet has its own file	Map Options screen

Press and hold your finger on the screen for a second or two to bring up the County Selection or the Map Options screen. Displaying businesses will also display public parking locations and clubhouses. Remember to enable your phone's GPS location option under Settings, to be able to show your current GPS position within the app. Also remember that using GPS satellites consumes battery power, so use sparingly. (Be sure you tap Yes for "Show current location" to see your GPS position in this app).

		Here we are in Old Forge, permitted and surrounding trails are shown with sponsoring businesses by category pin. The zoomed in view shows trail markers, red pins are the trail intersections. Tap the markers or pins for more information. You can find out if a trail segment has been GPSed, what club maintains the trail or the junction ID (Old Forge/Inlet have numbered junctions). For Inlet permitted trails, use Hamilton County or the Old Forge Inlet file in the list.
Old Forge trails in Town of Webb, Herkimer County with businesses	Old Forge trails with trail markers and intersections pins, marker tapped

		Here's what happens without reception. You can simulate "no reception" by switching your phone to airplane mode. Your phone will cache (ie, store) only those Google map tiles currently at your zoom level or in your area. In this example without reception, the background map was set to satellite view, you loose the Google maps, but you will always have the trails, intersections, markers and businesses without reception.
Airplane mode, to simulate no reception, satellite background map setting	Entering Ilion Gorge - one bar of reception, satellite background map

One bar/no reception, GPS location shown, zoom way out to show what is cached in phone	Still one bar, zoom back in some, switch to street view	One bar, zoom way in, only some zoom level tiles are cached in phone - notice wrong resolution of tile

HELP US MAKE THIS APP EVEN BETTER: Please email us any suggestions for new features. We already have a few, thanks to our beta testers. Also please note that unlike the current Android version, the iPhone version does not have route creation (price is adjusted accordingly). We will add this feature in the next release. Thanks so much!

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