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Distance and speed tracking in the app

When you're walking, it's often handy to have an idea how far it is to the next direction so you know whether you need to pay attention or you have a few minutes to natter to your friend before worrying about navigating. Therefore as well as the displaying the text for the current direction, the summary screen of the app provides a real-time countdown of distance to the next direction as you are walking along. There's also a distance remaining for the whole walk to deal with any "are we nearly there yet?" although feel free to use artistic interpretation!  The distance is based on a (flat) map.  In reality it will be a fraction longer due to the extra (height) going up and down hills but because Cornwall is not the Himalayas then that's pretty small. The app calculates your average walking speed over the last couple of minutes to estimate how long the rest of the walk is likely to take.  We do this rather than averaging over the whole walk because

App reviews

If you've used our app to do a walk, we'd be really grateful if you could leave a review in the app store if you haven't already, as more reviews help to give other users confidence.  In particular, any visitors from "up country" won't have encountered iWalk Cornwall before and there is a lot of amazing stuff awaiting them here if they give it a try. If you have an iPhone, open the App Store, search for "iwalk cornwall" and tap the iWalk Cornwall entry in the list. Tap the Reviews tab and then tap "Write a Review".  Select the number of stars, fill in the title and the review text.  Press "Send" and enter a nickname that is likely to be unique.  If all is well a "Sent" box will flash up.    If you find that the "Send" button won't work, this is because your nickname is clashing with that of another user (but there is nothing to tell you this is the case).  If so, copy your review text so you don