Unexpected additional feature of Trapster iPhone app: Recording trips

I frequently browse through the top apps in the App Store to see what other people like that I haven’t already heard about through social media. I’ll often try out the apps, even if I don’t imagine I’ll use it.

One such app is Trapster: Trapster is designed to alert you of upcoming speed traps, red light cameras and live police traps. While this feature doesn’t particularly interest me, one added feature that I found the app has is the ability to record your trips.

Now I’m a photographer and I’ll occasionally go on trips, visiting various places and taking photos all over the place. I’ve been looking for quite some time for an app where I could record waypoints on my trip and add a photo to remind me of where I was and what photos were taken where, to aid with geotagging on Flickr for example and thus far, I’ve not been able to find an app which could do this, not least for free.

Well, Trapster has such a function. You can record your trip as you go, even exiting out of the app, so you can record extended trips. At any point along the way, you can take a photo and geotag it. Once your trip is finished, you can save the entire trip and send it to Trapster’s server, where you can either keep your trip private, send it to your friends and family with a unique URL, or make it public.

So this is a great tool for recording trips, geotagging photos along the way and being able to view and send that trip to anyone you want.

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