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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Popularity: 93%

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.

Popularity: 34%

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: 83%

In autumn many of our users came back from their trips and started to upload many nice tracks. We love all of the tracks and we are always waiting for the new tracks impatiently! We decided to make it even more friendly and handy for our users.

The main menu of GPSed website is now standardized for all pages, including “track”, “map”, “whereis” and all other pages. Sign in your account at GPSed and here you will also find a new navigation. Now you are able to visit each page of GPSed site being signed in under your account. What’s the difference? Before this update you were able to see only “track”, “map” and “whereis” pages under your account. You always signed out to visit the main page with a statistics, news and featured tracks. We decided this is not so comformable for our users and finally we changed this navigation. Now you can get everywhere on GPSed website under your account.

Also, you can always be informed on the recent posts in GPSed Blog! The five recent posts are resembled in the headers of each GPSed page. The most important of them are marked in bold. On the main page in the list of recent posts we have added the comments counter. Now you can be informed on the popularity of each post.

This was done specially for you to enjoy GPSed. Visit GPSed website, upload your tracks, watch tracks by other users all over the world and enjoy new navigation!

As always, your comments and ideas will help us to improve GPSed next time.

Sincerely,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 37%

Recently you’ve heard here about GPSed version 3.2 for Java phones. And we did not force you to wait long for a new version - please find here a new release of GPSed for Java Phones ver. 3.3

What’s new is this release?

• Now our users with Java phones can view the track list being not connected to GPS device.
• In the newest update in Settings menu the item Autopause was added with the following values: 1 km/h, 2 km/h, 3 km/h, 5 km/h, 10 km/h . “Km/h” could be easily changed in Measurement Unit on km/h, kts or mph. The option is disabled by the default.
  If the movement speed is less than in Settings -> Autopause the track will be temporary paused. User doesn’t need to press Pause Tracking, this will be done automatically. The track will be automatically resumed when the required speed values are obtained. This speed values should be higher than in Settings -> Autopause.
• And also, we are using a new formula to measure track distance which makes your results more accurate.
• Finally, track sharing in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc became a little bit easier.

We hope the new version will bring you much pleasure! Download the new version and share your thoughts with us!

Kind regards,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 51%

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: 50%

And again we have nice news for WM audience! New update of GPSed for Windows Mobile v. 2.1.4 is small but useful. In this update we included several bug fixes. Now we really hope you won’t have any more troubles with Internet connection, ocasional stop of the track when uploading it on the server, sharing the tracks to the Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc) and preventing automatic power down. The latest version is available for free download.

Thank you all for so many comments and questions we’ve got last week. As usual, we are happy to help and here we are with one of the answers.

Today we’ll discuss the most frequently asked questions on the COM-ports and internal GPS settings. On the page “View ->Track Details” you can get data on the current connection. The field “GPS Receiver” has the following meanings:

Selecting “Menu -> Settings -> Change GPS Receiver” an attempt to connect to GPSID is happening. If the data from GPS is obtained the user start using GPSID for the work with a GPS receiver. Otherwise the search of the GPS data source via COM-port is carried out. In that case you have to select appropriate source in the list of discovered sources.

You can also find a useful post under the title “Blackjack II GPS… ACTIVATED“.

As usual we are waiting for your feedback!

Sincerely yours,
GPSed Team

Popularity: 48%

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: 50%