The skiing holiday is coming: apps for Android and iOS

Also on the ski slopes are smartphones practical Companion. With the right apps you can see a quick and easy the snow conditions or the opening hours of lifts. ZDNet has put together some really good.

Even if the snow to wait can be in this year in many locations, the anticipation of the skiing holiday is many. A Smartphone today as well of course among the facilities such as ski-wear or ski goggles. This is surprising little, because such a device can be carried easily and provides many interesting info about about snow conditions, opening hours of cabins or ski lifts or over the mountains of the panorama. ZDNet has put together apps for the perfect skiing holiday.

The mobile panorama Board peak Finder Alps shows a 360-degree panorama with the names of prominent mountains from anywhere in the Alpine region – 25,000 are stored. The app available for iOS and Android costs 2.99 Euro and works offline. Site selection is done via GPS, Google maps, or the manual input of coordinates. The Summit directory can be upgraded via an update function.

Berger brings the most popular ski resorts of the Alps on the Smartphone. The 0.79 euro expensive app for iOS and Android shows daily, detailed weather and snow reports of the most ski areas in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, North Italy and Slovenia. In addition, it offers runway plans in high resolution, wealth of information on ski resorts, as well as navigation there. The favorite ski resort can organist themselves to a Favorites list.

For Median users ski is: Europe 2011 an extensive alternative for you but also lower needs access 4,99 EUR in the bag. The app offers an interactive ski map, shows weather and snow conditions, as well as information about slopes, lifts, ticket outlets, ski rental, cabins, ski schools and much more. In addition, it is possible to search, then collected, taking into account the current position for name of ski lifts. The entire descent can be show including statistics for distance, maximum and average speed and total gap and save. She can later play back and posted on Facebook and Twitter.

The iOS and Android free Ski Amado guide offers an interactive ski panorama map with detection function and allows you to navigate in the ski resort. To the scope, thematic routes, and track recommendations also include according to skill. The app provides information about opened lifts, slopes, weather, webcams, and events. There is also a ski hut Guide, a Hotspot finder, a Persistence and a ski diary.

The only available on iOS access passivises allows one purchase a ski pass on the device and saves long queues at the box office. With the confirmation number provided by the app, you can go directly through (turnstile) access control. The ski pass is loaded on the card. You can book up to four days in advance and purchase passes for one, two or three days.

With Dolomite Super ski – Ski beep the same name skiing offers an app for iOS and Android. It shows the webcams in the 12 valleys, the weather forecast and snow report and other services. The integration of social network Ski beep to drive online and offline activities of winter holidaymakers in the area of Dolomite Super ski. It enables the exchange of the daily, local experiences of winter vacationers on Facebook and Twitter. Activities, about the purchase of various types of ski passes, ski in different valleys, the check in at certain locations, as well as the sharing of photos and videos, are points, and consecutive credits rewarded.

The augmented reality app Dolomite Super ski.AR, available shows for iOS and Android, on display on the camera’s live image overlay information. To surrounding peaks, as well as direction, name, and operational status includes the next nearby ski lifts.

In order to promote the use of social network Ski beep, Dolomite Super ski all ski pass offices, and the main ski lifts provides free Wi-Fi hotspots available. The registration takes place via SMS. To get a user name and password delivered to same way. Between ski runs you can in the net surfing and upload information. The expensive roaming charges are so to work around.

Skiing on the desktop

If the snow no longer is up this year or the skiing holiday for other reasons must fail, you should take a look at the programmer Alps 3D online free of charge. The software especially for skiers is interesting. If you click on a track that will appear left a window with the data of the site. There is also a slider. These, by pressing a flight over the piste begins. Is the CTR key (Mac: ALT key) pressed, longitude and latitude as well as the amount appear.

In the current version of the ski is also integrated performance check of Dolomite Super ski. Thus the day can be still once virtual on-screen experience. To do this, the code printed on the ski passes of the world’s largest lift network is required. Access to “Check Ski Performance” is open to holders of the my dolomite ski card also. The data is available from 5: 30 pm daily.