Today the New York Times published a great article about GPS Drawing featuring three EveryTrail members.
Below are screen shots of the EveryTrail trips that the article is referring to.
An Imaginary Portrait of prof. Wrona:
GPS Drawing
August 19th, 2009
More than 100,000 trips
May 26th, 2009
EveryTrail has been growing through word of mouth since we launched the site in October 2006. In April 2007, 6 months after launch we crossed 1,000 trips, and in May 2008 we passed the 10,000 mark.
Last Friday EveryTrail reached another big milestone: More than 100,000 public trips are shared at EveryTrail!
The image shows the daily number of new trips. There are no signs of slowing down. Quite the contrary… lately the number of new trips has grown faster than ever, and we had several days with more than 1,000 new trips.
We at EveryTrail are celebrating this milestone, but at the same time we keep focusing on making the site better and better, while dealing with some growing pains.
On to the next milestone!
Growth, growth, growth
May 1st, 2009EveryTrail is growing fast. We saw the first day with over 1,000 uploaded trips in April (yes, that’s right, 1,000 unique, personal travel experiences IN ONE DAY!), and we are fast approaching 100,000 publicly shared trips.
We’ve been working hard at keeping up with all this growth in traffic and content. We made important upgrades to the server infrastructure and migrated to a new scalable framework to prepare for the next wave of growth.
Along with the growth came some growing pains. Since this morning GPS file uploads are not working. While we are resolving this please use the following temporary fix:
This way you should be able to continue uploading trips.
To stay up-to-date on our progress, please follow EveryTrail on Twitter: Twitter.com/EveryTrail
EveryTrail Blackberry App now live
February 3rd, 2009
EveryTrail for Blackberry is now live! Here you can find the link to install it over the air from your BlackBerry device or from your computer using BlackBerry Desktop Software.
The EveryTrail Blackberry app makes it very easy to capture your GPS tracks and photos using your GPS-enabled Blackberry Curve, and then upload your trips directly to EveryTrail.
Please note that the app is optimized for the Blackberry Curve. It does function on other GPS-enabled BlackBerry models such Bold and Pearl, but the difference in screen size causes layout issues on other devices. The Blackberry Storm is not supported at this point.
Please report feedback on the EveryTrail forums.
It is our strategy to partner with 3rd party mobile app developers to bring EveryTrail functionality to even more mobile users around the world. If you are interested in developing Mobile Apps using the EveryTrail API, please get in touch with us. Since the EveryTrail Blackberry app is optimized for the Blackberry Curve, we are especially interested in talking to developers who are interested in adding EveryTrail integration to apps for Blackberry Bold, Storm and Pearl.
EveryTrail trips as Google Earth Tours
February 2nd, 2009Today Google is launching a great new feature in Google Earth: Google Earth Tours. With the new Touring feature, content can be viewed as one-click slide show experience. EveryTrail content is now available as Tours in Google Earth. Read the press release is here.
Some featured EveryTrail Tours are below. Just click the links to download these trips into Google Earth.
Tips:
* First download the latest version of Google Earth here
* When Google Earth opens, click on “Start Here” and then on “Play Tour”
* Make sure “Terrain” is enabled: check the Terrain box at the bottom of the Layer section in the Google Earth sidebar
Tierra del Fuego Trek, Argentina
After you downloaded one of the above files, start your Tour by clicking on “Start Here” placemark, and then clicking on “Play Tour”. Enjoy!
EveryTrail now live in the Android Market
January 14th, 2009
EveryTrail for Android is now live! Browse to the Android Market on your Android-powered phone and then look for it in the travel section, or simply search for EveryTrail.
The EveryTrail Android app makes it very easy to capture your GPS tracks and photos using your G1 phone (other Android phones will be coming out later this year), and then upload your trips directly to EveryTrail.
Please report feedback on the EveryTrail forums.
As noted before, it is our strategy to partner with the best mobile app developers in the world to bring EveryTrail functionality to even more mobile users around the world. If you are interested developing Mobile Apps using the EveryTrail API, please get in touch with us.
Here are some more screenshots:
Europe on Ice!
January 6th, 2009
After years of relatively mild winters in Western Europe the cold has finally kicked in, covering lakes and canals with a thick layer of ice. Thousands of Europeans, mainly the Dutch, take the opportunity to enjoy ice skating these days.
Upon request we added Ice Skating trips as a new activity at EveryTrail, and quickly dozens of Ice Skating GPS tracks are being uploaded.
If you are near frozen lakes or canals: Enjoy the ice! If you are not, check out some cool trips to get a taste what the Dutch are up to these days, for example: Schaatsen op de Oostvaardersplassen, Schaatsen op het Naardermeer, Skate-A-Round on Ice Waterland (all in the Netherlands) and Iceskating at høvik (Norway).
Know of any other activity that you’d like to see featured in the EveryTrail blog? Please get in touch with us!
New EveryTrail Partner: Trails iPhone App
December 30th, 2008
We at EveryTrail are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the iPhone App Trails (available in the iTunes AppStore for $1.99).
Trails is an iTunes’ staff favorite and now supports direct export of tracks into EveryTrail. In addition you can import any track from EveryTrail easily and view the route on the map directly on your iPhone. Trails will let you tailor the behavior of the GPS recorder through easy-to-use presets for hiking, jogging, bike rides and drives.
While we have been developing some mobile apps in-house (including EveryTrail for iPhone and The Bike Computer), it is our strategy to partner with some of the best mobile app developers in the world to bring EveryTrail functionality to even more mobile users around the world. If you are interested developing Mobile Apps using the EveryTrail API, please get in touch with us.
EveryTrail Now a Layer in Google Earth!
December 16th, 2008We have some great news to share today:
Starting today EveryTrail trips will be available as a Layer in Google Earth. This means that your EveryTrail trips will automatically appear in Google Earth, so you and tens of millions of Google Earth users can view your trips in 3D!
Watch the video below to get an impression of what this looks like.
Screen shot of the classic Half Dome Hike in Google Earth:
You can help us make this layer great by adding descriptions to your trips and photos so that other users can enjoy your trips even more.
Cool video tutorial of EveryTrail iPhone app
December 13th, 2008User Sting67 created a cool video tutorial about the EveryTrail GPS iPhone app that we’ve embedded below.
This 3 minute video gives a good overview of how the app works, and shows some tips & tricks to optimize your EveryTrail iPhone experience. Enjoy!