What Ride Mapping App/Site Should We Use? What do you use?

So over the past month, Bruce and I have been trying out different iPhone App/Website combos. Problem is — no one site does everything that I want. Here are some initial comments:

Overall Fitness:

• Daily Burn: More focused on tracking the overall picture. (Health, Nutrition, Weight, Cardio, Lifting and more) Their iPhone client is focused on entering what you eat — but you can enter a completed ride but not all the details the running/biking specific sites offer. I do like that it syncs with my Withings scale and my Zeo alarm clock/sleep system. It also syncs with a few other 3rd party systems. No matter what I decide from the GPS based apps below — I will probably continue to use Daily Burn as it has helped me monitor caloric intake and I can see trends I can’t see with other systems.

Riding/Running Specific GPS based Apps

• RunKeeper.com – Decent app — good dashboard while riding, good analytics after the ride. I have used this since last year (pre-road bike) and am only loyal to this because I bought the pro version last year. Nothing great but nothing sucks about this. I haven’t tested the elevation accuracy on this one yet. If you premap a route it seems that it tracks your progress around this but I’ve had some problems.
• MapMyRide.com – More bike focused site — they claim they map climbs — but Bruce has had some issues with this. Route following works pretty well — but doesn’t always register if you did a ride that you pre-mapped (a metric they have defined). They also have a decent dashboard and will connect to your cadence, heartrate, power and speed ANT+ sensors if you have an adapter for your iPhone. MapMyRide allows you to easily embed rides on a blog like this — so I like it for that purpose — but the website has some usability issues — it beats RunKeeper out by a bit.
• Strava.com – I am going to try Strava on my next ride – I will update how it goes then. One of the things I like about this site is the ability to create your own group and they have a feed widget that you can load showing your GROUPS rides — not just one person’s like MapMyRide. Not sure I’m a huge fan of the interface — but for sharing out a groups ride this just may be the way to go.
• RunningFreeOnline – Used to be RunSaturday but rebranded a year or so ago. The site integrates with a large number of products including Nike+, Polar and Garmin systems, and a few phone apps including iSportsTracker. IST has some promise as an iPhone app, but it has bugs maintaining good GPS signal and I’ve lost info on a few rides without realizing it until the end. The site allows you to track a variety of sports including running, swimming, cycling… and lots of others. The map integration feature is quite nice and their elevation data seems to be highly accurate and very accessible. The site is very internationally focused; looking at recent updates sometimes you won’t see the US listed for a while. Overall, I like this site because of how simple it is to do detailed analysis of your workouts but the apps that support the site could be better.
• Biologic Bike Brain – Other than a quick 2 mile ride I haven’t really tried this out yet — but the paid version pairs with ANT stuff if you have the Biologic mount. Will update if I can get my hands on one of these.