As some of you might already  know, GPSed mobile application is available for iPhone, BlackBerry, J2Me and Windows Mobile smartphones. Among all these GPSed versions the one for iPhone is the latest. Nevertheless, our developers are working on it and implementing more and more features in each release.

The newest version includes a huge update which is certainly worth your attention!

New features include:

GPSed is fully compatible with 3.0 OS and successfully tested on newest iPhone 3GS!

• Photo attaching directly from the application.

• New stylish user interface.

• Convenient dialog for posting to social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Blogger.

• Speed bug fix. In the previous versions a speed bug occurred: when the speed was more than 36 km/h the current speed was shown as zero. Now with GPSed for iPhone v. 1.4 you will know the correct speed of your trip.

• Many other fixes and improvements.

How to attach photos to the track?

When you want to take a photo press the “camera” button in the right upper corner of GPSed application. Then press “Add Photo” button and follow the next instructions.

When the photo is taken you should confirm if you want to use this photo for your track or you’d like to retake it. All taken photos will be pinned to a map precisely at a place they were taken.

Download link in App Store remained the same. All registered users could upgrade to the newest version for free.

And the last good news from GPSed Team. The price of GPSed for iPhone is now $0.99 instead of $1.99. Hurry up to get an application for the lower price!

Please leave your comments here, we are looking forward to hearing from you.

You can also follow us on Twitter with @GPSed

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

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The amount of GPSed users and GPSed Blog’s subscribers is growing and growing every day. That’s great and we are happy to announce that you can now follow us on Twitter to get GPSed blog updates sent to your Twitter feed!

Our user name is GPSed. We’ll tweet our latest news to keep you informed on what happens.

If you’re on Twitter, follow us with @GPSed!

Kind regards,

GPSed Team

http://twitter.com/gpsed

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In spring we announced the release of a brand new GPSed Monitoring Service. Let me remind you that GPSed Monitoring Service is rather useful for those who want to track mobile objects on the map in real-time.

Let’s say you own a cargo company and want to track your vehicles in real-time, or  have little children or aged relatives that need to be watched at all times. If that’s the case  you will be excited about becoming a GPSed Monitoring Service user and will get the latest update of the application right away.

So, what’s been new? The “Alerts” tab was added on /monitoring/dispatch page.

It allows you to check all “events” (so-called “alerts”) which happen with your “objects” (switch to off-line mode, speeding, start/stop, connection lost/recover).

All registered users are welcome to update GPSed Monitoring Service for free! Just configure the alerts for your objects and view the events’ log. Now you will know when the tracked vehicle stopped, speeded, etc.

We hope this will be useful for GPSed Monitoring Service users. We love your feedback and waiting for your impressions impatiently.

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

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Summer, the most lovely season for trips, has come. Do not forget to take your mobile device with GPSed application installed on a vacation and you will not regret. The summer for our team started with GPSed Web Services improvements.

The number of GPSed users and tracks uploaded are increasing every day. And we are happy to meet all of you on GPSed website. Nevertheless some of you probably noticed small troubles when our Web Services freeze occasionally. Sometimes this could happen as every day new users are coming and lots of new tracks are uploaded.

As we started searching for a solution, database refactoring was conducted. We are glad to inform you that GPSed Web Service should not be slow anymore.

Hope you’ll find this improvement useful. Stay tuned to more news and have a great summer!

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

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If you have already uploaded many of your tracks on GPSed.com this post is for you. Now it’s time to learn how to organise and edit your tracks easily. Some of you probably have already noticed that a new page is available on GPSed.com.

“My Tracks” page was recently released!

This page was very awaited by many of GPSed users. And we are glad that our service became even more useful and convenient.

What are the advantages of “My tracks” page?

• You can reach “My tracks” easily from every page of GPSed website. In every moment by one click you can switch to it and organize your tracks which are stored on GPSed.com.
• New convenient tabs for All Tracks, Public Tracks and Private Tracks allows you to find all your public and private tracks quickly and easily.
• Availability of group actions: make changes of several tracks at the same time (delete, make private or public).
• View the list of your tracks and filter them by dates or countries. Here on “My Tracks” page you can easily change the status of your track from public to private, export to GPX or KML format, rename or delete tracks, attach photos and share tracks with your friends using various services: Facebook, Digg, Delicious, MySpace, Twitter, etc.  You can also check track details (number of photos, waypoints, comments and views, country and locality of each track, start and finish dates, etc). Also, view photos as a slideshow and add description of each trip for your friends and other GPSed users!
• Users could filter and sort the track list (4 types of sorting).
• New tracks. Tracks which were uploaded but still have not been opened by the author are marked in bold and special icon.

Make all kind of editings you like just directly on “My Tracks” page and leave your comments her. We love your feedback!

Kind redards,
GPSed Team

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A new version of GPSed for iPhone version 1.3 is available. A problem with the long tracks have been successfully resolved in it.

In the previous version all track points were overwrited every minute. For the long tracks this process caused periodical delays. In the current version new points are appended to the end of the file and no delays occur.

Make a long tracks during your trips with GPSed Mobile Application!

New update of GPSed is expected soon. The next version with photo attaching feature just directly from the application and new user interface is recently in the development.

Please keep an eye on the updates and note that by purchasing GPSed users are entitled to all software updates and upgrades.

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Dear friends,

Today we celebrate 50,000-th user who joined GPSed service. For 1,5 years of working together we have been creating powerful, functional and user-friendly GPS tracking service. Your feedback, comments, suggestions and remarks have been helping us to improve GPSed web-service and mobile applications and even to launch new directions.

As of today GPSed users recorded over 75,000 tracks in 176 countries and attached over 36,000 photos.

GPSed made a long interesting way from a simple web-service to comprehensive location-based solution with own mobile applications, powerful web-service and Monitoring Service that has been launched recently.
Today Pro and Basic versions of GPSed mobile applications are available for the most mobile platforms: Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile Pocket PC and Smartphone and Java/Symbian. GPSed.com web-service allows to archive, manage and share GPSed tracks, attach photos and a lot of more. And GPSed Monitoring Service covers the requirements from family tracking to industrial monitoring of mobile objects (vehicles).

The service received numerous positive reviews and to our pride in February 2009 GPSed won the Sony Ericsson Content Awards for the In-car applications category!

Thank you for being with us! Stay tuned for future updates and news!

Learn more products of SHAPE Services at: www.shapeservices.com

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Many users are contacting us with the question why an altitude value is negative for their tracks. In the most cases this is a normal situation and not an error!

This happens because GPS receiver obtains an altitude value comparative to sea level but not to a ground level. At some places of the Earth ground level is lower than sea level. The lowest point of the surface of the Earth on dry land is the Dead Sea in Israel.  It is 422 meters (1,385 ft) below sea level.

But sometimes GPS receiver itself can wrongly obtain negative value of altitude comparative to sea level.  For more accurate fixing position in 3D mode at least 4 satellites required. That’s why when connection to satellites is bad, GPS receiver can work in 2D mode obtaining wrong value of altitude (elevation).  To fix it find open territory and wait for a least 4 satellites found.  Or purchase high-end GPS receiver.

As usual, please feel free to contact us if you need any assistance with our software.

Kind  regards,
GPSed Team

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