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Google with the My Tracks Android App

Submitted by slikers on Saturday, 14 February 20092 Comments

Are you ready to share more of your location information with Google? If so, Google’s My Tracks software for Android will let cyclists, and joggers record their routes and share them with others. Last week, Google announced Latitude, a product that allows friends to share their location information so they may see one another on a map location.

Google’s My Tracks takes the same idea and wraps it around the idea of improving fitness and the community of those who like to share their fitness activities.

According to Dylan Casey, product manager and former professional cyclist, “My Tracks records tracks of outdoor activities using the phone’s built-in GPS. It shows these tracks on a map and presents live statistics, including an elevation profile. And here’s the best part: it lets you easily share your activities with friends and the world using Google Maps, as well as archive your training history with Google Docs.”

“The application only draws additional power when a track is being recorded. If you want to save power you must stop recording your track,” said Sandor Dornbush in a discussion board post. “When you are out and about just let the phone go to sleep as normal. My Tracks will run in the background even if the screen is off.” Perhaps there’s a kludge through Google’s location technology that uses wireless networks and cell towers, but I only could use that to get the phone to show my current location.

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