See more tracks at a glance!

Meet hot update on GPSed.com. Now our users have new and very useful possibility to search GPSed tracks all over the world right on a map!

To find GPSed tracks directly on a map please sign in to your GPSed account and zoom a map in a place you like. On a certain zoom level you’ll  see semi-transparent track lines. These are the tracks by other users which are situated in a visible area. Put mouse cursor over the one of these lines and it’ll become wider (doesn’t work under IE). Click on a track to get it’s details:  author, distance, duration, geo information (country, area and city) and track’s content information, including number or waypoints, photos and comments. In this dialog you can open track or view it in details.

Surely not all GPSed  tracks are visible on a certain zoom level otherwise service usage become inconvenient. Only the most popular tracks in the current map viewport are shown.

How can it be useful? You can search for tracks in an area you are interested in, read comments and impressions by other GPSed users. This will certainly help you to create your own tracks or to plan your trip! Another great use case is to discover tracks of other GPSed authors around your own one.

We highly appreciate your comments and feedback!

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RSS (Really Simple Syndication) used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. For GPSed users we prepared a new feature to keep up with our web site in an automated manner. Now you can make a subscription on the new public tracks of all users you like using RSS.

Want to know more about that?

On the page of each track near the author’s name you can easily find an icon (User’s RRS Feed - click to subscribe to the latest public tracks of this user). After click on this icon you can choose any RSS reader you like: Google Reader, My Yahoo, Firefox Live Bookmarks and any other RSS reader you like. Now every time when your favourite author published his new tracks you will always receive a notification.

We hope you find this feature useful! If so, please leave your comments here. All ideas and suggestions are welcome!

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As Alex mentioned in previous post we have released a new feature - associating tracks with related communities or organizations.

If you are a member of a travel club, a hiking society or a tourist organization you can add the name of your organization with its URL to your track so the other GPSed users will see it.

The example of a track associated with Odessa Tourist Club: June2007_dniestr1 #1, by Dolphin.

Adding Communities is very easy.
When you start writing a track you can add Community as one of the parameters. You can also add Communities to tracks that are already uploaded. To add a Community to uploaded track, click on the change status icon in the TrackList.

We have already several communities in out list most of which are connected with tourism and all kinds of outdoors activities, including nature conservation. They are Washington trails association, Mountaineering Councils of Scotland and Ireland, The Nature Conservancy, Nizhniy Novgorod Trekking Club, Professional Trailbuilders Association, etc.

If there’s no Community you belong to in our list, please send an email to communities@gpsed.com with the name of your Organization and we consider it for inclusion.

Happy tracking!

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The Fast: GPSed.com has just become much faster than it used to be. We’ve turbocharged two main pages: the first page of the service, and, more importantly - the track page. There’s really no chance you can miss it.

The Curious: If you are a member of hikers, bikers, drivers, riders, runners, paragliders, or any other community of active curious people, now you can associate your tracks with the community. The name and link to the community website will be shown to every GPSed.com visitor viewing your track. We believe it’s a nice and easy way to tell people about your activities and engage more members. To add your communities or organizations to our service, please write to  communities@gpsed.com

And more:

- Better slide shows for track photos

- Detailed track information is now hidden by default, leaving more space for photos

Do you miss some specific feature on GPSed.com? Let us know!

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Unlike many of our readers, we ain’t on vacation on these summer days. Our precious developers are working hard and they have just rolled out an update of GPSed.com. What’s new:

• We’ve noticed that there is a common situation when someone posts a comment, asking track author about something interesting regarding the track. Author replies, but the reply is rarely seen, as there were no reply notifications. Now you can receive e-mail notifications when someone posts a reply to your comment. Of course you can always unsubscribe from reply notifications.

• Now you can choose your time zone on settings page. Since then, all times on the service will be displayed according to the time zone you’ve chosen.
• My favorite: search now shows 10 tracks per page instead of 5.
• Clicking photo markers on map allows you to browse through the photos with next/prev buttons.

Looking  forward to your comments and improvement suggestions!

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Some time ago Google team released a wonderful plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows to view 3D maps from Google Earth right in your browser. This is a great innovation and we are glad to announce:

The new type of maps that opens 3D view of Earth maps from Satellite right in your browser!

If you are viewing a map on GPSed.com just click on ‘Earth” in the top right-hand corner and the map will automatically turn to 3D view. For proper image reflection you need to have the corresponding plugin from Google. If the plugin is not yet installed, after clicking on “Earth” you will be prompted to install it.

Apart from 3D Earth view I want to bring to your attention another beatiful feature of zooming in on the region on a map you want to view.

Just click on the “Zoom…” button in the top left-hand corner and highlight the region you want to view with your mouse. After a short pause you will see the zoomed in view of the whole region you have highlighted.

We hope you will enjoy the new features. Wishing you pleasant experience with GPSed!

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We’ve been planning to support widgets which would enable inserting a map from your current location directly to your web site or blog for a long time. And now we finally finished the development and testing!

Please welcome the GPSed Widgets of the current user location:

This widget allows your site or blog visitors to view on Google Maps your current location in real-time! You can start GPSed Mobile Application on your mobile device and start tracking, and your site visitors will follow your way in real-time on the map.

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Do you know where Falkland Islands are? Or where is East Timor? What about Saint Lucia? Somalia? Do you know the population of India, Sri Lanka? Are you aware of Russian Federation area?

Would you like to learn all this?

Now you have an extremely easy way to explore the world for yourself, open new horizons, and learn new information about the countries. All you need is to login under your GPSed account and zoom out to see the flags of all countries on Earth. When you point your mouse to a flag, you see brief information about this country: name of the country, its capital, population, area and official currency.
If you don’t have a GPSed account, you can sign up right now - it’s easy and free.

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