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

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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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We are happy to inform that a new version of GPSed for Blackberry appeared.

We are convinced you’ll find several bug fixes useful. The work with memory card have been improved: the track list is now easier loading from the memory card; converting of the track in GPX format have been improved.

In the previous versions in was impossible to start a track until your device does not catch satellites. Now it is also fixed.
Please download installation of GPSed mobile application for BlackBerry v. 1.01.

We also would like to announce a new version of GPSed mobile application for J2ME phones.

Now you will not face any difficulties with a detection of internal GPS. Duration incongruity on client and server when recording several tracks in succession was fixed.

Please download installation of GPSed mobile application for J2ME phones v. 3.2.

iPhone  version is expected soon!

We are happy to inform you about our plans. Now we are working on GPSed Mobile Application for iPhone.  If you are interested please check our news carefully!

We hope you’ll benefit with the new updates of our products! As usual we are waiting for your comments and suggestions impatiently!

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GPSed became popular, our statistics can prove that!

First of all I want to represent new small feature on a start page - common statistic of GPSed.com service, such a total number of tracks, attached photos, etc.

As of today, our tracks cover 128 countries, this is more then a half of the world! The largest number of tracks we’ve got from United States (6638), Russia (2289), Germany (2231), Ukraine (1513), United Kingdom (1403), Italy (1092) and Canada (1064).

There are also countries with only one track represented on GPSed: Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Armenia, Cambodia, Laos, Malta, Ethiopia, Benin, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Andorra, Botswana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uzbekistan. I think tracks from such countries can be very interesting. By the way, to find all tracks from exact country you can sign in, open Search tab on /home page, expand “Advanced Search” panel and choose any country from dropdown list.

Do you know that there are 183 tracks at GPSed.com under the title “to work”?

The average speed of people movement to work is 15.6 kilometers per hour and the average distance to the work place is 18.5 kilometers!

If you got interested in various statistic posts in GPSed Blog leave your comments here. All ideas and suggestions are welcome!

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Several days ago we have updated GPSed Mobile Application for Blackberry version 1.0. This is not a beta-release version now, at last. In this update several bugs were fixed and two features were added:

1. Possibility to turn on/off backlight right from GPSed application. Could be useful for people who want to conduct current speed monitoring, check current coordinates, travel distance, etc during the trip.
2. Now it is possible to use “Reset GPS” function in Settings which drops current connection to GPS and starts this procedure from scratch. The feature was added after users’ requests.
3. In last versions users encountered with difficulties in tracks uploading on the GPSed.com website. Now this bug was fixed!
4. Wrong conversion in GPX format was also fixed in last version of GPSed for Blackberry.

To download a new version please follow this link or point your Blackberry browser to wap.gpsed.com and follow the instructions.

Looking  forward to your comments and improvement suggestions!

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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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