8.18
2022-10-25
Version 8.18(0)
- Fix for occasional App crash seen in V8.16(5).
8.16
2022-01-27
Version 8.16(5)
- Fixed a startup issue in V8.15(11) where speed was not set to zero in a timely fashion in the case of a stationary user but the first GPS location indicated a non-zero speed.
Also contains recent Version 8.15 changes. Click on the Version History link to see those changes also.
8.7
2020-04-06
Version 8.7(2)
- Fixed an issue with a change made to the previous build that caused the trip odometers to be twice what the actual distance is.
- Fixed an issue when the user returns to the Map view where the current track history was not being redisplayed on the map under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue which caused the map position center to move about when regular updates are not being received from the GPS receiver and the speed is near zero.
8.6
2020-03-31
Version 8.6(9)
- Made internal improvements to the communication between the CourseSpeed iPhone App and a connected Apple watch running the CourseSpeedWatch App.
- Enabled the iPhone to determine whether it needs to run, or not, in the background using the iPhone GPS receiver in order to support the watch App.
- Changed the way the trip odometer increments the distance traveled every position update for speeds near zero and with poor GPS coverage.
- In the main view, selecting one of the buttons to change the units of a data item will now immediately convert the data field value to the new units instead of waiting for a new position update.
- See note in the CourseSpeed iPhone App "About" text in the Trip Odometer section for a note indicating when the iPhone GPS is being used for each Trip Odometer state. This becomes more important when using the CourseSpeedWatch app.
8.5
2020-03-07
Version 8.5(2)
- When the "Mark" is active, and the iPhone App selected speed is "Speed Made Good", set the Watch App speed label as "Speed Made Good".
- On the Watch app, split both horizontal and Vertical Accuracy data fields into a data field and a units field. (previously the data and units were all one field) This was done in order to have the units field a different color than the data field.
- Made the Watch App units fields a different color than the label/data fields.
- For the Watch App, changed horizontal/Vertical alignment attributes for new units fields to be left/center.
- For the iPhone App, made the Speed field minimum size smaller for smaller iPhones and km/hr speed units.
8.4
2020-03-04
Version 8.4(0)
- Shortened the field names Sun Azimuth and Sun Elevation to Sun Azim and Sun Elev on the CourseSpeedWatch app to avoid truncating their respective values on a 38mm Apple Watch.
- Increased the CourseSpeedWatch App's time as the "frontmost" App to 8 minutes.
8.3
2020-02-23
Version 8.3(0)
- Added the following fields to the CourseSpeedWatch App:
GPS Horizontal Accuracy, GPS Vertical Accuracy, Sun Azimuth, and Sun Elevation.
- Added the units of each watch field (e.g. MPH)
Note: The units reflect those that have been selected in the CourseSpeed iPhone app.
8.2
2020-02-17
Version 8.2(1)f
- Added "No Data" text in each watch data field when data has not been received from the iPhone within the last seven seconds.
- Fixed the Trip odometer auto-pause color such that it is the same magenta color as in the watch app.
8.1
2020-02-10
Version 8.1(3)
- Added a button to show/hide the "About" information for the CourseSpeedWatch App.
- Made the CourseSpeedWatch App automatically start the CourseSpeed iPhone App if the watch App is started without the iPhone App already running. When started this way, the CourseSpeed iPhone App will run in the "Background" mode to provide the data to the watch App. You can bring the iPhone App to the foreground at any time by pressing the blue highlighted Time field on a newer iPhone (with a notch) or by pressing the very top, blue, line of an earlier iPhone. Don't forget to terminate both the iPhone App and the watch App when no longer in use to save resources (e.g. battery).
- Added Trip 1 & Trip 2 state colors to the values in the CourseSpeedWatch App that match the colors on the iPhone App. (Inactive: White; Active: Green; Manually Paused: Orange; Automatically Paused: Purple)
- Added a CourseSpeedWatch App version string separate from the iPhone App's version string. If the versions don't match, the CourseSpeedWatch App will present the version in Red.
8.0
2020-01-31
Version 8.0(10)
- Made the entry of a "Speed-Made-Good" Mark and "Point of Interest" entry on the Map View mutually exclusive. i.e., hide the button of one when the other button action is active.
- Added text on the Map View Map whenever an Add POI or Add Mark is being processed. Each is a reminder to the user that the respective Add is still active and the user should complete the action.
- Created an Apple Watch App "CourseSpeedWatch" that is now available for use with a paired iPhone running the
CourseSpeed App. The CourseSpeedWatch App functionality is a subset of the iPhone App and contains only data fields with no controls via buttons. The CourseSpeedWatch App requires an Apple Watch running watchOS V5.0 or later. The following data fields are visible on a single, scrolling, screen:
1 Position (Latitude & Longitude)
2 Course
3 Speed
4 Altitude
5 Trip 1 Odometer
6 Trip 2 Odometer
7 Distance to a user entered Mark
8 Bearing to a user entered Mark
9 Sunrise time
10 Sunset time
7.9
2019-12-19
Version 7.9(1)
-Saved trip odometer distances to allow quitting the App and having the odometers be restored when the App is started again. When the App is restarted, the odometers will be in the same state as they were when the App was last closed. i.e., running or paused or reset.
7.6
2019-12-07
Version 7.6(4)
- Added Trip 1 and Trip 2 Odometers to the Extras View.
Trip distances reflect the distance units of the selected speed units from the main view.
Trip distances will not be updated when speed is < 1 unit of whatever speed units are selected on the main view.
- Made button and text field fonts the same on all views.
-Fixed a problem that caused the App to not continue to update the GPS position in a GPX file when the App is in the background. This occurred as follows:
1. Start a GPX file recording in the Settings view.
2. Start a track history recording in the Map View.
3. Stop the track history recording.
4. Place the App in the background (i.e. open another app)
Background position updates would erroneously NOT be saved in the GPX file as they should be.
7.5
2019-09-25
Version 7.5(0)
- Made the Map View menu buttons 67% larger. (You can still hide the menu)
- Added a missing trailing quotation mark for the insert POI 'Use GPS Position' instruction text.
7.4
2019-09-18
Version 7.4(7)
- Fixed a bug when deleting a Point Of Interest (POI) that would cause the names of subsequent new POI names to become part of another, existing POI.
- Added an option, when adding a Point Of Interest on the Map screen, to allow the user to choose to have either:
(new): 1. the App use the current GPS position for the POI, or
(existing): 2. the App use the user touched position.
This makes it easy to put a POI at your current location without having to zoom in enough to get an accurate position when touching the screen with your finger.
- Changed POI edit distance to 0.04 miles from 0.05 miles. (Helps to prevent editing the wrong POI)
- Added the total number of bytes used for all files to the list of files in the ManageTrackFile view.
- Changed the Location Manager 'Desired Accuracy' setting to be kCLLocationAccuracyBest instead of kCLLocationAccuracyBestForNavigation. This should improve battery life.
- Made the Map menu buttons text slighly larger.
- Made the main page latitude/longitude button text smaller to fit on an iPhone SE.
7.3
2019-06-20
Version 7.3(3)
- Removed the selection wheel for the course filter type in the settings view. Replaced it with three toggle switches that are mutually exclusive.
7.2
2019-04-03
Version 7.2(4)
- Fixed a potential App crash problem when "Unhiding" a track history when the history had waypoints associated with it.
- Fixed an issue where the "Hide Menu" button on the Map view was being set to orange instead of black when you are in the map view with a black "Hide Menu" button and you go "Back" to the Main view and then to the Map view again.
- Changed the distance between the latitude and longitude fields to be zero to avoid a non-fatal constraint error when starting up with no GPS data.
7.1
2018-03-27
Version 7.1(1)
- In the Extras View, added a Horizon Distance "Clear" button that clears the two input fields, Observer Height and Object Height.
- In the Extras View, Fixed the Horizon Distance Calculator such that, if you change the units, the observer height and object height are changed to the new selected units and the distance is recalculated in the new distance units.
- In the Map View, changed the "Hide Menu" button text color to be black instead of orange.
- Removed the NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription key in the info.plist file since the App does not use the location except when the app is in use. (not the "always" case).
7.0
2018-03-27
Version 7.0(1)
- Fixed an issue that could cause a cleared track history to be displayed for a newly started track for which "Hide Track" and "Unhide Track" are pressed before the new track has been updated by Apple's location services.
- Changed the "Hide Menu" button background color to match the other buttons and increased the font size of the "Hide/Show" Menu buttons.
- Cleaned up code from V6.5.
6.5
2018-03-27
Version 6.5(3)
- Added a "Show/Hide Menu" button on the Map page to show/hide the menu buttons on the bottom of the screen. This will free up space on the map view. The new Menu button is on the bottom of the Map. The map now defaults to having the menu hidden.
-Fixed the Sunrise/Sunset fields, used for entering the Date, to always line up with the text description of those fields in the line below.
6.4
2018-03-27
Version 6.4(1)
- Fixed an issue introduced in V6.0 that caused some track history coordinates,
written to a track history file, to not be loaded correctly.
- Fixed an issue when there is only one Map Point-Of-Interest, and it is deleted by the user, that it is not removed from the POI file.
- Limited the number of Points-Of-Interest read from the POI file to the maximum allowed by the App.
- Added an Alert for attempting to add a Point-Of-Interest beyond the maximum allowed by the App.