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Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Personal devices used to capture global waypoint data via satellite radio transmissions.
Follow Team HTC-Columbia on Tour de France (link)
0July 4, 2010
My last post highlighted that you’d be able to follow team HTC-Columbia using Google’s services, but no address was yet available. Also, I learned that the HTC Legend is the phone model being used by the entire team to gather data for this project.
Here is Google’s live link: http://www.google.com/mytrackstour
…one for HighRoad Sports live data: http://highroadsports.com/velostream
…and SRM’s TdF live page: http://www.srmlive.de/Data/Telemetry.html
Google’s MyTracks app to Provide Real-Time Tour de France Data
13July 2, 2010
I’ll get to the headline news in just a moment, but first an announcement on Google’s MyTracks Android app:
Very soon, Google’s MyTracks sports tracking application will be updated to support both ANT+ and Bluetooth devices, making MyTracks one of the most versatile apps in its category.
Back to the headline… Exciting news surrounding Tour de France coverage! Google and High Road Sports have entered a collaboration, together with partnerships from HTC and SRM, to bring spectators of the Tour de France closer than ever seen before.
High Road Sports announces a new technology and marketing collaboration with Google Inc., supported by partners HTC and SRM, that brings a worldwide audience further inside the experience of racing in the Tour de France.
Fans and viewers will be able to follow Team HTC-Columbia riders in real time with speed, heart rate, power output and other data provided by SRM, More >
My First Week With the N79 Active Edition
0May 10, 2009
I won the N79 Active Edition Grand Prize through Nokia’s “Track a Heart” contest! It arrived about a week ago and, now that I’ve had some time with it, I’m going to share my experiences here.
This review will mostly cover the experiences unique to the N79 Active Edition, including the Polar for Nokia Bluetooth heart rate belt.
First, I have to thank Nokia Innovations and the NST Dudes (as they affectionately refer to themselves) for providing me with the N79 Active Edition (hereafter N79AE).
Regarding the N79 handset itself, detailed reviews have been around for quite a while, so I’ll make this brief. The N79AE only differs from the standard N79 by adding an arm pouch and the Polar for Nokia heart rate belt (hereafter Polar4Nokia). My first impressions of the handset are very favorable and its S60 3rd ed fp2 is a nice upgrade from my former E61. More >
UMapper Map of the Week
7February 23, 2009
UMapper Map of the Week
Once more, I want to thank Andrei and the guys over at UMapper for recognizing my Nokia contest entry for their Map of the Week. They gave me the same honor a few weeks ago for one of my routine Sports Tracker workouts.
UMapper can be used by anyone for logging and embedding custom maps just about anywhere. I started using their service to embed maps of each of my workouts when I began this blog, and I like that I can choose from many different map providers, each with multiple viewing options. I also like that I can add graphics, information and media to my maps and see those changes reflected anywhere I have embedded a particular map.
All UMapper features are quite user-friendly, especially for WordPress bloggers via UMapper’s available plug-in. -David Hroncheck
A Detour for Some Fun
8February 20, 2009
A Detour for Some Fun
The guys over at the Nokia Innovations Newsdesk started a contest, “Track a Heart, Win a Nokia N79 Active”. They’re asking participants to use the Nokia Sports Tracker program, available for most Nokia handsets, to trace the shape of a heart on the earth. To enter, go to the Sports Tracker website and create an account, then join the group “Location Artists”. Install the Sports Tracker application on your Nokia mobile and start “drawing”. Your workout routes show up as a continuous line, what you do with that line can be artwork with some planning. Here’s a screenshot of my workout for the contest:
The planning for my entry too a couple hours using Google Earth. I first More >