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.
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