Welcome to Map My Tracks blog. Here you'll find tips about getting the most from your tracks, news and support.
Since announcing our partnership with Sky Pro Cycling earlier this year we have been busy behind the scenes developing a range of products for Team Sky. One of these products is the new Team Sky iPhone app that features team news, race details, rider profiles and a dedicated training app for cyclists to use on their rides.
Continue reading... | 27/08/2010 | Posted by Nick
Today sees the introduction of user following on Map My Tracks that makes it even easier to keep track of your friends activities. Being followed by others or following others is a great way to see what's going on around you or simply to get inspiration for your next run or ride or outing.
Continue reading... | 26/08/2010 | Posted by Nick
Take Map My Tracks with you at all times with our new mobile-friendly website. We've given the Map My Tracks Mobile site a makeover and also added a range of new features to makes it even easier to use when you are out and about.
Continue reading... | 06/08/2010 | Posted by Nick
To support the Nigel Mansell Cycle Challenge around Britain Map My Tracks has launched the first live first-person tracking system that allows online viewers to experience the ride as Nigel is seeing it. The ex-Formula 1 champion has embarked on an epic 1200 miles ride around Britain over 13 days in aid of UK Youth and with Map My Tracks' virtual tracking system spectators can follow Nigel's progress in real-time and see the roads as he see them.
Continue reading... | 23/07/2010 | Posted by Nick
The latest version of OutFront for iPhone now includes easier ways to share your activities with your followers on Twitter. Version 1.4 is the first one that lets you automatically tweet when you start or stop an activity. Once set up it posts a tweet to invite your followers to watch your progress live.
Continue reading... | 13/07/2010 | Posted by Nick
Riders in The London-Paris 2010 will have real time GPS tracking for the first time this year via sports event tracking specialists Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 17/06/2010 | Posted by Nick
Understanding what training you have done and how you are getting on is vital for improving your performance. That's why we have added a weekly summary of all the key stats to the user's profiles.
Continue reading... | 09/06/2010 | Posted by Nick
We have recently added a new widget or two and today we are pleased to announce the addition of embeddable activity wall columns to the set. In short, you can now take any column you create away with you to use on your own website or blog.
Continue reading... | 05/05/2010 | Posted by Nick
You asked for it so here it is. You can now embed an image-based widget that shows details of your latest activity. As suggested by the Map My Tracks community this is a handy widget that lets you embed details of your latest activity in forum signatures or simply on your blog or website.
Continue reading... | 05/05/2010 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (2)
To continue celebrating our partnership with Team Sky we have some more goodies to give away. This time fans of the Map My Tracks Facebook page will be in with a chance to win a weatherproof iPhone bike mount plus a copy of OutFront, our iPhone app.
Continue reading... | 20/04/2010 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (1)
To celebrate our new partnership with Team Sky we are giving away a weather-proof iPhone bike mount to use together with our iPhone app Outfront. The bike mount, from Dahon, is great for using with our app OutFront while you're out on your ride and we like it a lot.
Continue reading... | 07/04/2010 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks and Team Sky announce new four year partnership to exploit performance GPS tracking. Following the news last month of the launch of OutFront, a comprehensive multi–sport iPhone app for sports enthusiasts, Map My Tracks have today announced a 4-year deal with professional cycling’s newest and highly-publicised team, Team Sky.
Continue reading... | 06/04/2010 | Posted by Nick
Are you out this weekend for Sport Relief? Help us share as many miles as possible with your sponsors, friends or family by uploading or broadcasting your miles live on Map My Tracks. We're calling on the Map My Tracks community to help us make this year's event the most tracked ever.
Continue reading... | 18/03/2010 | Posted by Nick
Today we have launched a new way to add activities to your activity wall which we think you'll find useful. With Map My Tracks you now receive a personal dropbox email address that makes it super simple to upload GPX files direct to your activity wall without the need to visit the site.
Continue reading... | 10/03/2010 | Posted by Nick
From today all Map My Tracks members have a new activity wall to show off to their friends, family or just to keep track of their own activities. What's more, it comes with a snappy short web address to make it easy to link to from Facebook or Twitter.
Continue reading... | 26/02/2010 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (1)
Get OutFront for iPhone and stay ahead of the pack. OutFront for the iPhone, by Map My Tracks, lets you track and share your outdoor sports activities live on the web, better understand your sporting performance and can improve your training.
Continue reading... | 26/01/2010 | Posted by Nick
Keeping track of interesting and useful activities by other Map My Track users is now one just click away. Now all public tracks can be saved as a favourite to appear on your personalised activity wall.
Continue reading... | 23/12/2009 | Posted by Nick
This week sees some important changes to the Map My Tracks account structure that makes it even easier to share your activities live as they happen.
Continue reading... | 20/12/2009 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is coming to the iPhone very soon. We have been busy behind the scenes developing, tweaking, enhancing and improving the app so that it's just right. Be the first to hear of the announcement and sign up to the launch email.
Continue reading... | 29/11/2009 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (1)
Today sees the launch of the Map My Tracks Activity Wall that lets you easily discover new routes and workouts, follow the activities of others and add comment on activities near you. The Activity Wall is made from a series of columns that let you build the wall to show the activities you want to follow.
Continue reading... | 17/11/2009 | Posted by Nick
Double Olympic champion, James Cracknell, and Team HotChillee have set a stunning new record for cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats with help from sports tracking specialists Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 23/10/2009 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is backing double Olympic champion, James Cracknell, in his attempt to set a world record for cycling from Land’s End to John O’Groats this month.
Continue reading... | 08/10/2009 | Posted by Nick
Following some useful feedback we have released a minor release upgrade for all compatible Blackberry handsets. Version 1.5.1 includes improvements to the registration process that removes a problem that some users were suffering.
Continue reading... | 22/08/2009 | Posted by Nick
We are excited to announce the release of a major new upgrade for all supported mobile phones including Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and other S60 phones. In this release we've introduced offline tracking, easier sharing with Twitter and onboard analysis of all previous activities.
Continue reading... | 03/07/2009 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (7)
Managing event and race tracking is now also possible from web-enabled mobile phones. Earlier this year the online event manager was released to provide event organisers and race directors with a comprehensive set of tools to control all aspects of race GPS tracking. The mobile event manager is a micro edition complete with all the tools to start, stop and manage participants in races. All from a mobile phone.
Continue reading... | 10/06/2009 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is great for sharing what's happening at sports events right now. It's all about sharing an event and letting spectators follow the action live online. Integrating Twitter into the Map My Tracks event manager means there are now even more ways for people to follow the action, engage with the event and watch the action as it happens.
Continue reading... | 01/06/2009 | Posted by Nick
The Map My Tracks API has been extended to give developers more flexibility. The API makes is easy for developers to interact with Map My Tracks to make their own widgets or tracking applications.
Continue reading... | 27/05/2009 | Posted by Nick
Today we have released an update to the phone tracking software for all supported phones including Blackberry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others. It's well worth updating to get some neat new features that makes it even easier to use. It's the latest in a series of changes to Map My Tracks that improve real-time tracking for outdoor activities.
Continue reading... | 18/05/2009 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (6)
With the recent launch of the Friends on Fire Facebook application from the team at Fire Eagle it's now a breeze to share your location on Facebook through Map My Tracks. Using the Friends on Fire app and Map My Tracks together it's easy to update and share you location on Facebook and as with all things Fire Eagle is a simple process to control your privacy when you wish to.
Continue reading... | 08/04/2009 | Posted by Nick
Heads up developers! We're really excited to announce that the all new Map My Tracks API is now ready for action. The team has been busy behind the scenes getting everything ready and today sees the first phase of the API release.
Continue reading... | 07/04/2009 | Posted by Nick
Today sees the beta launch of the Map My Tracks Event Manager. The event manager lets anyone organising an outdoor event to track all the participants at the same time, in real-time, and broadcast it live on the web. It's a perfect addition to the growing family of applications that help to bring GPS tracking to the masses.
Continue reading... | 06/03/2009 | Posted by Nick
Over the last few months we have rolled out a number of new tools, features and applications that all help you to share your sporting activity in real time. Here is a handy list of the main ones.
Continue reading... | 08/02/2009 | Posted by Nick
We're pleased to announce the launch of Map My Tracks mobile. Map My Tracks mobile is a portable, micro edition of the main website specifically designed to be used within a mobile phone's web browser. It includes all the favourite features of its bigger brother and lets people find and follow others using their own mobile phone without the need to be in front of a PC.
Continue reading... | 01/02/2009 | Posted by Nick
Orhan. Well done orhan. We hope to see many more sightings of you out and about. A big thank you to all of you that have taken the time to complete our recent customer satisfaction survey. As ever, the feedback is invaluable to us and provides us with plenty of ideas for new features and where we need to improve.
Continue reading... | 19/01/2009 | Posted by Nick
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Continue reading... | 04/01/2009 | Posted by Nick
We are pleased to announce the release of Map My Tracks version 1.4.1. This is a simple bug fix upgrade following on from the recent release of version 1.4.
Continue reading... | 08/12/2008 | Posted by Nick
We've made it even easier to find out what's going on around you in your area. I'm please to say that tracks in places near you or in your country have all been grouped together. It's another great addition that lets you follow other Map My Tracks users that are active in your area.
Continue reading... | 17/10/2008 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is all about sharing your outdoor activity with others. It's also about discovering others in your area and with this in mind we have introduced a small, but very interesting, feature on every track that shows all the other nearby users.
Continue reading... | 01/09/2008 | Posted by Nick
We're thrilled to bits to be able to announce that Map My Tracks now plays nicely with Fire Eagle. For those of you not familiar with Fire Eagle it is one of the latest services to be launched by the team at Yahoo Brickhouse which lets you take control of your location data.
Continue reading... | 12/08/2008 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (5)
It's been a busy time at Map My Tracks HQ. Hot on the heels of upgrading all our servers we are pleased to announce the release of Map My Tracks Mobile version 1.3. This release includes some great new features including location sharing, event tracking and for the first time it is compatible with Blackberrys.
Continue reading... | 14/07/2008 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (3)
As part of our ongoing programme of improvements Map My Tracks will be offline later today while we migrate to a new server. This will result in the service being offline for at least two hours. Some users may suffer longer down time as propagation completes.
Continue reading... | 09/07/2008 | Posted by Nick
One of the great things about Map My Tracks is learning more about people's activities and where they are in the world. Today we rolled out some new features that help better understand where tracks have been made.
Continue reading... | 27/06/2008 | Posted by Nick
Continue reading... | 24/06/2008 | Posted by Nick
Showing your current location or activity on your own website or blog just got easier. Today we have rolled out a suite of new features that make it easy location-enable your website. It's the perfect solution to answer the question "Where are you?".
Continue reading... | 28/05/2008 | Posted by Nick
Raising money for the Ponseti Clinic at Margate hospital in the UK Lee and Jamie have begun their bike ride from Lands End to Herne Bay. A journey over around 350 miles. They are tracking their progress for all to watch. You can follow their progress live over the next four days here at Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 20/05/2008 | Posted by Nick
We're looking ahead to the launch of Map My Tracks' event service next month at the Musto Skiff UK Nationals. Behind the scenes the events team is busy getting everything ready to make the event a success for the Musto sailors and Map My Tracks alike.
Continue reading... | 14/05/2008 | Posted by Nick
One of the unexpected benefits of Map My Tracks is that it introduces people to new locations from around the world. Many of the tracks that are being made look to be in glorious locations and Google's satellite map provide a little glimpse of what it might be like on the ground.
Continue reading... | 13/05/2008 | Posted by Nick
Often it's considered to be a backward step when something is removed but in this case that's not true. Today we have rolled out Map My Tracks Mobile v1.2.1 which now has the option to track live without showing a map of your current position. Instead it just tracks you! No map, no fuss.
Continue reading... | 06/05/2008 | Posted by Nick | Comments: (1)
Today we have pushed live a new release of Map My Tracks Mobile (v1.2). In this release we have added 'Where am I?', track tagging and global time together with some UI improvements.
Continue reading... | 11/04/2008 | Posted by Nick
For those of you that use Twitter you can follow Map My Tracks and get updates on new version releases, events and news.
Continue reading... | 10/04/2008 | Posted by Nick
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Continue reading... | 10/04/2008 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is backing this summer's Musto Skiff UK Nationals to launch its live events tracking service. The event will be the first time that live GPS tracking has been used in a non-Olympic dinghy event and is yet another first for the innovative Musto Skiff class and Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 02/04/2008 | Posted by Nick
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that Map My Tracks Mobile uses map data supplied by Open Street Map. We use OSM maps as the background on the handset to show where you are right now.
Continue reading... | 26/03/2008 | Posted by Nick
Bring a new dimension to your event or race with Map My Tracks event tracking. Map My Tracks' event services can entertain your spectators, impress your sponsors and inform your competitors with LIVE event tracking.
Continue reading... | 09/03/2008 | Posted by Nick
Wow what a weekend at The Dinghy Show. Thanks to all the visitors and exhibitors for taking the time to visit our stand at the show. It was great fun demonstrating what can be done with Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 03/03/2008 | Posted by Nick
To celebrate our attendance at the Dinghy Show this weekend we have rolled out another release of Map My Tracks Mobile that improves our support for many Windows Mobile handsets.
Continue reading... | 28/02/2008 | Posted by Nick
The Dinghy Sailing Show at Alexendra Palace in London will see our first road trip to demo Map My Tracks and we're really looking forward to it.
Continue reading... | 20/02/2008 | Posted by Nick
We're very excited to move out of beta and launch Map My Tracks Mobile v1. Our thanks go to all the beta users for taking the time to register and try out Map My Tracks. Your help has been invaluable.
Continue reading... | 08/02/2008 | Posted by Nick
First in a series of videos that we plan to produce is this introduction to Map My Tracks.
Continue reading... | 23/01/2008 | Posted by Nick
The moment has finally arrived for us to open our doors and reveal what we have been busy creating over the past six months. It is with a great deal of pride that we peel back the covers of Map My Tracks - real-time GPS tracking for sports enthusiasts.
Continue reading... | 23/12/2007 | Posted by Nick
Map My Tracks is the easy way to accurately track, or share in real-time, your sporting activity over land, sea or air using your mobile cell phone and GPS.
With Map My Tracks you can
