Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Route Tracker version 1.0 deployed to Marketplace

Route Tracker version 1.0, has been finally realeased to the Windows Phone Marketplace and is available @ Marketplace link (Zune must be installed). The main differences with the Route Tracker Lite version are:
  • a route can be split in stages
  • different stages use different colors in the map representation
  • most of the speed and altitude figures have been replaced with a graphical representation.
  • routes can be uploaded to a dropbox account
  • routes are saved in the phone´s memory
A future post describing the application should be posted shortly. Meanwhile see below the description as provided in the Windows Phone Marketplace.

Route Tracker is an application that tracks your route while you move (walk, run, drive). The application allows the user to split the route into several stages (shown in different colors in the map of the route) and will show the following.
  • statistics of the route,
  • a chart with altitude and speed
  • a map of the route.
  • a list of stages, with their names and summary
The available statistics are total distance, total time, time in motion, time paused (time in motion and time paused is based on whether the user pauses/restarts it), average speed, current altitude, and current latitude and longitude.

It supports three systems: international (meters, km/h, etc.), imperial (yards, feet, mph, etc) and nautic (knots, nm, etc.).

Once stopped, the route is stored in the telephone's memory and either before closing it or afterwards by re-opening it, user can perform the following operations
  • delete the route
  • capture the current screen to the stored images of the telephone
  • send the route as gpx (kml) via email (gpx will be used by default, and kml will be used if the gpx file is bigger than 32 KB -maximum size allowed so far for emails. If the kml file is bigger than 32KB then the email won´t be sent).
  • upload the route as gpx to his or her dropbox account.