Best GPS application for a Mac

FitzM

Hi I've got a Garmin 305. While the device is great the application is at best OK. Can you recommend a good application that will work on my Mac or online?

rich164h

I've got a 405 and personally I use both the Garmin Training Centre software and Sportracks.

Sportracks is definitely a lot more hostile when you first start to use it and I needed to download a few of the plugs ins to get the functionality that I wanted but after spending a bit of time setting it up it now works like a dream and is definitely the main piece of software that I use. The ability to overlay as many different activities as you like on a single compare graph, draw moving averages and also to edit (e.g. split) individual records are things that just can't be done in the Garmin software

Having the Garmin Training Centre (which links to Garmin connect) is good for alowing remote access to the training log though and is much more simple to use, but there are more limitations to what you can do and how the data can be analysed.

OSX does appear to be supported in Sportracks but I'm not sure if it's entirely problem free though.

magliaceleste

Your best bet is to run Sportstracks under under Windows using VMWare fusion or Parallels. Works like a charm, used it for years.

The best Native Mac apps for Training Logbooks are:

Ascent: http://www.montebellosoftware.com/
+which has some really nice playback functions and it easy to use.
- Lacking on the deeper power analysis (only relevant if you intend to use Power Meter in the future. If they added NP, IF, FTP functionality etc then I would switch to this software)


or

Rubitrack:http://www.rubitrack.com/
+ pretty interface
- graphing/analysis a bit basic (and slow)

FitzM

magliaceleste wrote:

Your best bet is to run Sportstracks under under Windows using VMWare fusion or Parallels. Works like a charm, used it for years.

Thx magliaceleste, a very technical answer. I've got an old Dell laptop but try not to use it too often. And the thought of running Windows on any of my Macs make me swallow hard ;-)

But will defo look at http://www.montebellosoftware.com if the site comes back on-line

And also take a look at http://www.rubitrack.com/

cookiemonster

+1 for Ascent (montebello)

sungod

i've got the free garmin apps

but i prefer ascent from montebello, there were some nice new features in the last update

you can download it to try for free, it just limits how many rides you can load

Moaner

+3 for Ascent. I'd hate to start running windows on my mac.....