Your tracks are in unsupported format and are not visible on GPSed?

It is possible to solve this simple problem. Your tracks should be converted into *.gpx format. This is the most popular format for GPS tracks. We recommend you on-line GPS track format converter on GPSVisualizer website.

Upload appropriated file from your computer and press “Convert”. After that copy a code and paste it in the created text file, and save it in *.gpx format. This file could be easily uploaded on GPSed.com.

To upload your track on GPSed.com sign in your account. In the upper right corner of your screen press the link “Upload tracks” and find your recent track on your computer (GPX, KML or PLT formats). You can upload several files at the same time. When the process is finished your tracks will appear on Google Maps.

Please leave your comments here and let us know if you find useful to have additional formats supported on support@gpsed.com.

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Stay in touch with your friends and relatives when you are traveling! Let them know places you’ve visited and your current location. Share your tracks obtained during trips to the Social Networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc!

There are two ways of track sharing:

1. By Internet from web-site GPSed.com

2. By mobile phone with GPSed application installed

Here we’ll discuss the possibility to share tracks from your mobile phone. To post a track to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc you have to enter your login and password. We guarantee that GPSed does not save your logins and passwords to the Social Networks.

Below are few examples of track’s sharing from GPSed Mobile Application, check it out. Images are clickable, so you can look at sharing results in original profiles of corresponding social networks.

Track sharing to Facebook (you will need to add me as a friend to see my profile)

Track sharing to MySpace

Track sharing to Twitter

There are several cases to share tracks from your mobile phone:

• Before starting to make a new track: User receives a proposition to send a track to his friends to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc to follow him during his trip. In that case the mobile client will send a post to these Social Networks precisely in that time when the first points reach GPSed.com. This way of sharing is realized by appropriated dialogues in a process of new track creation (the user also could disable this function).

• During track recording: The user have already started track recording and decided to share it with friends. This could be realized in menu by “Upload” and “Share” functions which are valid during track recording.

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Here we’ll give you some recommendations on how to make your own track and to enjoy it on Internet by yourself and with friends.

To make a track you need GPS unit or mobile phone with GPSed application installed and a digital photo camera. In a case you use photo camera separately from mobile please note that the data and time should be the same on both devices to avoid future mistakes. Choose the nice area and start making tracks and taking photos during your trip.

After that upload your track and photos on your computer. Sign in to GPSed.com. In the upper right corner of your screen press the link “Upload tracks” and find your recent track on your computer (GPX, KML or PLT formats). When the process is finish your track will appear on Google Maps. You can assign your tracks to Communities, read this post for more information!

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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.

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Here is a new article in our series that might be useful when using GPSed service.

On this occasion we will talk about Track Popup Menu. This menu appears if you click the track line precisely on the map.

Using this menu you can process almost any operation with this track. For example, you can change the track color, rename the track, send a link to this track via email, export the track to KML format to view it in Google Earth and so on. More than that, the same menu is available from any page on the site, which shows a track, for instance as shown here: “Going home - Rally Finnskog”.

Note: Ability to change a track (for example, rename it) is possible only if you are the author of the track.

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We continue publishing articles dedicated to helpful recommendations about GPSed.com service using.

This time we will tell you about track presentation and management. Probably not all users are aware that the color of every track can be changed in our service. To do that just click the square with the title “Color”, located on the right of every track in the “Opened Tracks” list. After that you can choose any available color from the list. This functionality might be very useful when viewing tracks on different places of the Earth, when the track color might be merged with a landscape of the current territory.

Another helpful functionality that can be used for viewing any information about the track without opening a page with details is a “Track Info” window. You can open track information by clicking a small icon in the right bottom corner of each track in the “Opened Tracks” list. You can find a lot of interesting information about the selected track in this window, such as: the city, where the track was started and finished, Device name which was used to record the track, average and maximal speed and some other useful information.

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With this post we are opening an article section dedicated to helpful advices how to use GPSed service. We hope our recommendations will come in handy to you so you will enjoy the whole potential of the GPSed service.

Probably not all users of our service know about the functionality of viewing track photos with an easy-to-use and a nice-looking Slide-show. To start the slide-show, a track with attached photos should be selected, for example this one: “Walk trip by Vienna”, then switch to Photos Tab (on the right from the track, under the “Track Information” block) and click on the thumbnail of any photo that lies here. The slide-show will start.

You can view other photos of this track manually by clicking “Next” and “Previous”, or you can browse all photos of this track automatically by clicking “Auto” button. When automatic browsing is launched, photos will be viewed in cycles, meaning after the last photo in the list the first one will be displayed and so on. You can stop automatic browsing at any moment by clicking “Stop” button.

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