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Originally Posted by Aidan
Does anyone know how accurate the GPS stuff in mapmywhatever is? I'm curious to turn it on for a football game and see how far I run, but no idea if it'd be pointless.
I work for mapmyfitness. The answer is kind of complicated. If you were jogging laps or running along the sidewalk or something, in general the results are pretty good, even though cell phone GPS is generally kind of hit-or-miss.
Playing football or something, though, I think the results are probably going to be not that great. If you run 5 feet one way and then 2 feet the other way and then 4 feet the other way I really doubt it's going to record 11 feet.
Using a device with higher accuracy might help. There are dedicated GPS devices that integrate with mapmyfitness and other sites, made by Garmin, etc. If I record a bike ride with my phone and a garmin at the same time, the garmin track is really obviously more accurate.