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!

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Popularity: 20%

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

Popularity: 26%

GPSed for iPhone is a relatively young application compared to BlackBerry, J2Me or Windows Mobile versions. That is why our team is working to add more features to it.

What’s been new in the latest 1.2 version?

A “Map Preview” tab was added which displays track preview on a Google Maps. It’s possible to switch map types to “Map“, “Satellite“, “Hybrid” and “Terrain” according to your wish.

A possibility to setup Sharing option in Settings was added. There are also some useful bug fixes and small improvements.

Of course new updates of GPSed for iPhone are expected.

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 16%