You also get summary data about the duration, traveling speed, and even elevation changes of your trip. The best thing about My Tracks is that it uses Google Maps and makes it easy to share your route with people. One note – you’ll have the click the little down arrow button on the map screen and choose “Send to Google…” before it shows up in your “My Maps” list in Google Maps. To embed the result in the blog post (like I did above), click the “Link” link in Google Maps and you’ll get code for an iframe. You can also share some route details with Google Docs but to be honest I was hoping for more data – I’d like to get the point-by-point GPS data so I can use it to automatically geotag photos. I am an obsessive geotagger on Flickr but it’s just too time-consuming to do it manually if the data already exists somewhere. You can access Google Docs spreadsheet data with Python, after all.Īnother similar Google product I haven’t signed up for yet is Latitude – I’m not so much worried about privacy as I am unlikely to be traveling around enough for it to be interesting at this point. "We apologise for the inconvenience this might cause My Tracks users," Google wrote adding "we've made the tough decision to invest our efforts into other, more wide-reaching, mapping projects." Athena likes to go for walks but we aren’t roaming too far yet.The Mountain View-headquartered giant is expected to pull the plug on the seven-year-old app on April 30, which is still quite some time but after April 30, no user will be able track more new activity using the app but can only export the already collected data from the app. This means that the company will now focus more on the Google Fit app. ![]() Google has also advised its users to switch to apps like Strava, Endomondo, Map My Run, Map My Hike, GPS Logger for Android, and GPX Viewer as a replacement to the My Tracks app.
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