A new version of GPSed for Windows Mobile contain many new features and improvements. Algorithm of waypoint creation was improved greatly! In the previous version the waypoint was created when “OK” button is pressed. As a result of a high speed of your movement you can create a waypoint which is situated on some distance from waypoint you wanted to create. This happened because users have spent some time for waypoint name entering. In the current version of GPSed waypoint will be created when the appropriate menu item is selected. This is exactly the moment which users need.

The trouble of the wrong displaying of the track recording time was fixed in 2.1.5 version.  Distance calculation is more precise now! There are also many other fixes which we believe will bring you much pleasure. The most important characteristic of this version is Pro functionality.

In the previous posts we informed you that GPSed Pro version for BlackBerry phones has been released. Now we are happy to announce that GPSed Pro version for PocketPC and Smartphone is coming out! With GPSed Pro mobile application we tried to cover all your requirements. Pro version include several new features which make GPS tracking process more convenient.

All features that you have already got accustomed to use in GPSed free basic version you will find in Pro, but new features make GPSed Pro really efficient. Pro features for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile handhelds are nearly the same:

• Lifetime support via e-mail. Our technical specialists will provide you with all necessary information and help you to solve any problems with GPSed Pro version.

• “SOS” button for instant position alerts over SMS. Wherever you are you can instantly notify your friends or relatives about your current position via SMS. They will receive a link to the page with your position on a map. Your device must have phone module!

• Live tracking with small time intervals (up to 3 seconds). If you want to share your real-time position this feature is for you. GPSed Pro can work over TCP/IP, that allows to update your position during tracking really often and minimize mobile traffic consumptions.

We are planning to implement even more features in Pro version in future updates. Please find below comparing table of GPSed basic and Pro version at the moment:

Key Features	Basic version	Pro version
Live and offline GPS tracking
Adjustable Live tracking modes
Public/Private tracks
Sharing to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others from mobile
Lifetime support via e-mail
“SOS button” for instant position alerts over SMS. Note: your device must have GSM module
Live tracking with smallest time intervals (up to 3 seconds)
		More to come in future versions

We also remember about J2ME-people. If you are interested in all Pro features which we implemented and described for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile handhelds please leave your comments here.

Get GPSed Pro version for your Windows Mobile Phones and try real Pro features!

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We are happy to announce that GPSed Pro version for BlackBerry handhelds is coming out. With a new Pro line of GPSed mobile applications we will try to cover all your requirements to GPS tracking process, to make it handy, smart and clear.

All features that you have already got accustomed to use in GPSed free basic version you will find in Pro, but new features make this version really efficient:

• Lifetime support via e-mail. Our technical specialists will provide you with all necessary information and help you to solve any problems with GPSed Pro version.

• “SOS” button for instant position alerts over SMS or e-mail. Wherever you are you can instantly notify your friends or relatives about your current position via SMS or e-mail. They will receive a link to the page with your position on a map.

• Live tracking with small time intervals (up to 3 seconds). If you want to share your real-time position this feature is for you. GPSed Pro can work over TCP/IP, that allows to update your position during tracking really often and minimize mobile traffic consumptions.

We are planning to implement even more features in Pro versions in future updates. Please find below comparing table of GPSed basic and Pro versions at the moment:

Key Features	Basic version	Pro version
Live and offline GPS tracking
Adjustable Live tracking modes
Public/Private tracks
Sharing to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others from mobile
Lifetime support via e-mail
“SOS button” for instant position alerts over SMS or e-mail
Live tracking with smallest time intervals (up to 3 seconds)
		More to come in future versions

Get GPSed Pro version for your BlackBerry and try real Pro features!

Popularity: 52%

In our previous post we promised to describe a new geo-searching function on GPSed map toolbar. This feature is hot and deserves our special attention! The search bar is located directly below the toolbar.

The result or your request is displayed on a map with the detailed information including country and locality,  flag of the country and geographical coordinates. Concerning coordinates a new option was included in Settings. Now you can change decimal format of coordinates which is standard for Google Maps into DMS format (degrees, minutes and seconds).

Using geo-search you can search everything you like: any countries, states or provinces, cities, towns, addresses and even streets with the exact house numbers. Besides geo-referenced search you can find places of interest in all parts of the world! Type the most famous places of interest in a search bar of the toolbar (White House, Eiffel Tower or Statue of Liberty) to see how it works.

Put your mouse on the search bar and wait for a while. A tooltip with explanations and examples of correct search requests will appear. Use this information to make a correct search of localities you’d like to see on the map.

Make double click on the search bar to remove previous request (or in other words to remove a marker from the map). Try it and you’ll see how it easy, fast and useful.

The Google Geo Search algorithm which we use could provide a list of different localities all over the world with the same titles. Now you will see only one locality from this list on GPSed. In future we are planning to show all results for you to choose the correct one.

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Here we want to share with you our joy concerning GPSed website update. Now you can use a new “Map Toolbar” which we believe will make your work with GPSed easier. The toolbar itself is nice and useful. In this post we’ll describe you how it works in details.

The toolbar appears on each GPSed page containing maps (e.g. on the track’s page, on the GPSed Map page, on user’s profile page, etc). Every time you work with a map on GPSed you can switch on/off all the layers using the new toolbar.

You can see how it works by yourself. Go to GPSed Map page and start selecting different layers:

  Show/hide Popular GPSed tracks

Select this layer and popular GPSed tracks will be resembled on the map. This option is not new but now you can easily switch it off. By default the layer “Popular GPSed tracks” is disabled in order to speed up map loading. Read one of our older posts “Discover GPSed tracks from worldwide easily!” for more information about “Popular GPSed tracks” layer. Using this layer you’ll search public tracks by other users all over the world without any difficulties. You can select an area which is most interested for you at the moment and find existing tracks by other users there.

Show/hide Panoramio photos

The layer “Panoramio photos” have been improved recently. Now these photos are loading faster, the number of photos was greatly increased and the most popular photos are displaying bigger than the others. Now you can easily search popular and nice photos all over the world!

  Show/hide Wikipedia articles

This option is absolutely new, it could be compared with “Panoramio photos”.  Here instead of photos you can find Wikipedia articles on the map. Wikipedia layer helps to get additional information on locality you are interested in. Use this layer and improve your knowledge, learn more about places from where your tracks originated.

Show/hide track markers

With this toolbar button you can switch on/off all track markers: start and finish of the track (for ordinary and semi-transparent tracks), waypoint and photo markers. In some cases such markers could be a bit distracting and overlap some of the track points. Use the button to see GPSed tracks “clean”, without any additional information.

Show/hide national flags with useful information

Using the new map toolbar you can switch on/off the flags of each country on a map. We recommend you to read one of the past posts in GPSed Blog under the title “Explore the world, explore the countries“.

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Here we would like to describe a new update of GPSed website. Last time the users profile page http://gpsed.com/user/<username> have been improved greatly. As it was before, it is still possible to detect the latest user’s position on the map.

However the user’s profile page have many new features now!

Entering users profile page you will find the account registration date and the date of last visit on GPSed. You will easily see the amount of featured tracks by this user and obtain information on how many photos were geotagged to the user’s public tracks, how many public tracks were uploaded by him or her on GPSed. And finally, you will find information on how many comments were left.

Find last 8 photos (from public tracks only) by selected user in his or her profile page.

This is not only a list of visited countries.  Our service calculates the percent of visited countries of the world!

The five nearest users could be easily detected and you will know the distance between you and them. The  “Nearby GPSed Users” are searched within a radius of 200 km.

There are also some small usability improvements:  position refresh rate, the possibility to follow user, etc. The small overview map will help to determine the part of the world where user is located quickly and easily.

Visit your favourite authors profile pages on GPSed! If you still don’t have your favorite authors we can recommend you Alex, DoLphin, Hitman and Vizael.

With kind regards,
GPSed Team.

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Attaching photos to the track is increasing it’s popularity among users. The track with nice photos became much more informative and attractive. It is automatically became a candidate to the featured tracks which are resembled on the main page of GPSed Service.

Here we’ll tell you how we have improved photo attaching wizard. Now the process of photo attaching became even easier than it was before.

What’s new?

You will enjoy new headers and footers, and new design in general. Now all pages are stylish, shipshape and nice.

Before the photos attached to the track the users have a possibility to preview the current results beforehand, change parameters and preview again.

The one feature is of a special importance in the new update. The user could choose any photo from the list and indicate it’s location on the map. After that all remained photos will be geotagged regarding selected one based on the time difference between these photos.

How does it work?!

• The time of the track point which was selected by the user is determined;
• The time when the photo was done is also determined;
• After that, this two time values are compared and saved. To understand better what happen later we’ll give you an example. Imagine there is a photo in the list which was done in a five minutes after selected photo (or ten minutes before it). Such point will be searched based on the time value among all track points and if not founded the photo will remain without geoposition;
• and so on for all other photos…

Besides the way of photos geotagging which was described above the possibility to enter the time from your photo camera is still remained. Using this function all photos locations will adjusted regarding selected time. The one difference is that now the time value could be additionally adjusted on the 4th step of  the photo wizard if the it was entered not very accurate on the previous step.

Attaching photos to Picasa and FlickR became much more easier for the users now! Try it and prove by yourself!

We have added a possibility for users to attach not only photos from a certain set on FlickR, but all photos from selected date range. By the default this range is equal the dates of start and finish of the track, but could be easily change to another one. Using this feature you can find and attach absolutely every photo from your FlickR account. In Picasa it is a little bit different, the photos could be only in albums there.

Geoposition of photos is saved on Photo-Services (Picasa and FlickR). When the checkbox “Update geoposition on Picasa”  is selected the photo geoposition will be saved inside the photo, and the photo will be visible on the map on corresponding Photo-Service!

For FlickR photos we are using  “Photo Title” as a description from now, which we believe is more valuable than “Photo Description”.

Besides all mentioned above we have done some important bug  fixes concerning photo wizard and added several small features which should make photos attaching more easily and friendly for you.

Attach nice photos to your tracks and keep a good memory of your journey in a free web archive on Free Mobile GPS Tracking Service.

With kind regards,
GPSed Team.

Popularity: 17%

This is not a secret for our users that you can explore maps not only with GPSed tracks and photos, but with photos from Panoramio. But now Panoramio photos look much better on GPSed with small thumbnail images.

We hope this small feature will make your time spending with GPSed.com more pleasant!
Feel free to leave you comments here!

Sincerely yours,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 12%

Enjoy the new look and new features of GPSed for PocketPC and Smartphone!

We are happy to announce a new GPSed update for Windows Mobile-based devices! You can easily compare its interface with the previous version and we hope you’ll find the recent one more attractive.

We’re sorry to keep the WM audience waiting for a bit more time than BlackBerry and J2ME users. But still, the new look&feel is here and we like it very much. And yes, it’s the most important part of this update.

Another nice feature we have here is “track autopause“. Now the track pauses automatically if you decide to stop for a while. Every time you take a break, you don’t need to stop the track by yourself. Moreover, your WM-based device can be now prevented to enter the sleep mode, if you want to keep it on all the time. All this features customizable via application Settings.

This update also includes several dozens bug fixes which we believe will make your GPSed experience trouble-free and more enjoyable.We highly recommend you to download the latest version. And keep us informed on your experience!

Yours,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 22%