My Tracks 2.0

The Google Lat Long blog has just announced that My Tracks, Google's location tracking application for Android, has just released a 2.0 update on Google Play.

The updated version of My Tracks has a number of new features, including:

• The ability to play back your tour directly on Google Earth for Android
• Aggregation of statistics over time to show trends in your performance
• A Simpler, faster user interface
• Improved charts and stats tables that are easier to read

My Tracks is one of my favourite Android apps. I use it all the time to track my bike rides and walks, so I'm looking forward to trying out with these new features. 

Recording Your Tracks with Google Maps

Xtracked

Xtracked turns your mobile phone into a personal and professional GPS tracking system. The site uses Google Maps, charts and reports to display and analyse your recorded tracks.

The homepage of Xtracked provides a demo of a track displayed on a Google Map. Markers show the locations on the track where the maximum speed was reached and the maximum altitude on the track.

It is also possible to follow your tracks with Street View. The Street View implementation is synchronised to the chart view. When you mouse-over the chart the map is centred at your current location and the Street View panorama reflects the actual view you had when passing that location (by setting its POV).

If you click on the 'More' button you can turn on Traffic and Bicycle layers and switch to Satellite, OpenStreetMap and CloudMade map tiles.

You can learn more about Xtracked at:

Xtracked on Blogger: http://xtracked.blogspot.com/
Xtracked on Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtracked
Xtracked on Picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/Xtracked/Xtracked20

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Google Open Sources My Tracks

My Tracks

Google have open sourced the code of their Android live tracking app My Tracks.

My Tracks enables you to record GPS tracks from your mobile phone and view live statistics – such as time, speed, distance, and elevation – while hiking, biking, running or participating in other outdoor activities. Once recorded, you can then view your track on Google Maps (Google have a number of samples of maps created with My Tracks here).

So if you are planning to build a real-time tracking application for the Android market then a good place to start could be the My Tracks source code.

Via: cnet

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