Introducing PitPod - A new free iPhone app for recording snow and avalanche data
PitPod, a new iPhone and iPod touch application for recording snow pits and avalanches is now available for free on the iTunes store. PitPod is your digital snow and avalanche field book.
Imagine: you see an avalanche, you ski over to the crown, record a crown profile on your iPhone, GPS map the path as you ski down, and then share the crown profile and a map of the slide with your friends on Facebook right from the toe of the debris. With PitPod you can do all that and more on your iPhone or iPod touch.
PitPod was developed out of a desire to be able to easily enter snow and avalanche data in the field, and then electronically share that data, and it uses all those fancy features on your iPhone to make it as easy as possible. It is full featured enough for use by avalanche professionals, but simple enough to be used by back country skiers and snowboarders.
PitPod includes inclinometer, GPS, and compass support so you can accurately mark your field sites.
Supported export formats include diagrams of snow pits in image and PDF format, KML maps of avalanches, CAAML xml, SnowPilot XML. It can upload to Facebook, it can even print.
For more information about PitPod see http://www.pitpod.net
You can download PitPod now at http://itunes.apple.com/ke/app/pitpod/id477838698?mt=8 or search for PitPod on the iTunes store.
New Version of Avalanche Lab available
A new version of Avalanche Lab, 0.93, is now available on the App Store. This release is mostly bug fixes, but also has a few new features.
New features include:
Attach photos from camera roll to an observation.
Observations can now be sorted by distance from current location.
New mode for selecting multiple observations and viewing a series of Pit Diagrams.
Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause data to be lost.
Fixed several bugs improving that could cause crashes on older devices.