GPSed.com proudly presents new GPSed track in Historic series and the first GPS presentation of “Sully´s flight” (US Airways Flight 1549) and heroic landing in the Hudson River.

We have restored on a map the heroic landing of Airbus A320 in the Hudson River that took place January 15, 2009. This event came to the history of civil aviation thanks to the captain of Flight 1549 Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger. Without thrust from both engines lamed by geese he softly landed plane on water and saved lives of 155 passengers.

Together with the track you will find  geotagged photos, waypoints during this short flight and embedded 3D animation video with real pilot’s speech during in-flight accident.

Stay tuned for new GPSed tracks from our Historic series. You can even subscribe to RSS Feed for all new tracks from this series.

Popularity: 29%

“Search” function on GPSed opens various possibilities for us to “visit” places that many of us will never get to see unless we watch a travel channel. This however is more personal than reading guides for travelers and highlights the things that are the most interesting to us. Visit GPSed.com as a registered user, press “Map” and start searching.

Want to know more about this or another country? “Search by country” is really what you need. Choose the country of your origin or an “exotic” country and start your “virtual” trip. View the photos carefully and imagine you are the part of this adventures.

During such searching among GPSed tracks I’ve found many routes which impressed me greatly. I highlighted the authors who are making really nice tracks, with cool photos and useful information in a description.

You can also subscribe on the new public tracks of all users you like using RSS Feed.

I like Alex adventures on Greek islands, tracks by DoLphin at the Dniestr river in Ukraine, Vizael’s, Fbatista72’s  and Hitman’s tracks in a beautiful towns. I also enjoy flights by Aerobat!

The track by Cmlandau from the New York Botanical Garden with the unique plants represented there is worth to be viewed .

Tracks from expeditions by tourists are also amazing: in my opinion tracks by Marc78199 and Col Vieux Descent are really nice.

A separate group of exciting GPSed tracks created by GPSed Team is Historic Tracks.  Circumnavigation of Ferdinand Magellan, Maiden voyage of Titanic, Heroic and the last trip of battleship Bismarck during WWII move you tens and hundreds years backward revealing these amazing stories on a map. Stay tuned on GPSed Blog for upcoming pieces of history in a new angle.

Besides the tracks mentioned above there are many little-known routs worth our attention. Press the “Search” button on GPSed and start your “virtual” trip through the tracks of GPSed users.

Yours sincerely,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 19%

According to the voting that we have launched about two weeks ago the most wanted track became Magellan’s voyage around the world

This is the mapped story about Ferdinand Magellan - the first maritime explorer who made circumnavigation in 1519-1522. Ferdinand was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines on the morning of April 17, 1521. But his expedition with ship Victoria at the head finished round-the-world voyage in 1522.

Stay tuned for new GPSed tracks in Historic series from different periods.

Popularity: 50%

Please welcome a new track from Historic series - German Battleship Bismarck.

Mapped tragic story of the last operation of Bismarck- the most famous battleship of the World War II.  During operation Rheinubung in a few hard battles Bismarck battleship thrilled British fleet. Battlecruiser HMS Hood, flagship of the Home Fleet and pride of the Royal Navy, was sunk within several minutes. Bismarck was hit and sunk about 600 miles away of French coast by superior British forces. In all of the 2,200 crew, 1,995 German sailors had lost their lives.

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We are going to continue the series of Historic tracks. Your opinion is important for us; please vote for the next Historic track. You can add your own choice, if you like.

Popularity: 27%

Want to see your trip in a Featured Track List on GPSed.com service and to become popular among GPSed users? Follow our simple recommendations and your track may be displayed on our main page!

1. The track should cover the nice area which will be interesting and pleasant to see for other people. It should be illustrated with photos (several dozens of photos or even more will be very useful).
2. Upload your track using your account on GPSed.com and make it Public.
3. Make your account at http://picasaweb.google.com/ or http://www.flickr.com/, create your web-album or photo-set. Upload your photos related to this track into the web album. Please write “photos description” when uploading them into Picasa or FlickR to make your photos more informative.
4. Add your photos to the track, press “Attach photos” button in the upper right corner of your track’s page.
5. It is desirable to have photos with geo-position on the track. Photos will be pinned to a map according to the track’s timeline. Photos with no timestamps will be also attached to the track without geotagging.
6. When viewing your track on track’s page you can specify “track description” of this track. Find “Track description” field and press “Edit”. Many people will be interested to learn more about the area, what is it famous for? What was the reason of the trip and the most exiting events during it?
7. The most interesting waypoints (with a description) will also make the track more exciting for people.

Follow these recommendations carefully and you have a possibility to share your impressions with a large audience of our users. The authors of the best tracks will receive nice gifts: GPSed.com T-shirt, Certificate for 10 USD for our products at www.shapeservices.com, etc.

We hope to learn more about your trips from Featured Tracks at GPSed.com! If you still don’t have GPSed account you have a chance to make it for free and start enjoying this service!

If you got interested in making your own tracks featured, leave your comments here. All ideas and suggestions for featured tracks improvement are welcome.

Popularity: 17%

We are happy to announce that we have started series of historic tracks on GPSed. The first one in this series is a maiden Titanic’s Voyage in the April, 1912. By the link besides of GPS track you can find photos of Titanic’s interior and exterior in Southampton, Cork and even geotagged underwater photos from the place of liner’s wreckage.

If you have some ideas of historic GPSed tracks or even can create ones, please share them with us by the e-mail: historic@gpsed.com

Stay tuned for the new interesting and cognitive historic GPSed tracks. We appreciate any your ideas and propositions.

Popularity: 20%