EveryTrail Blog

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:

User 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!

We are very pleased to announce our latest mobile GPS tracking application: The Bike Computer for iPhone. You can download it in Health Care and Fitness category in the app store or get it in iTunes .

The EveryTrail Bike Computer has a large screen that gives you key stats while riding your bike, and best of all, you can upload your ride directly from your phone to EveryTrail.

More mobile apps are coming, not only for iPhone, but also for Blackberry and Android.

The EveryTrail iPhone app is live! Browse to the Appstore on your iPhone, and then search for EveryTrail, or go to the Travel Category. You can also grab the app from the iTunes store using this link.

The EveryTrail iPhone app makes it very easy to capture your GPS tracks and photos, and then upload directly to EveryTrail.

More info is on our iPhone page. Please leave feedback in the iPhone forum thread.

Before we woke up this morning one of our members in the UK, Geoff Jones, already discovered the app, and used it to create a very nice trip. His review, including trip widget, can be found in his blog.

We hope you like the app, and we look forward to your feedback.

A part of our upgrade to EveryTrail 3.0 we launched a brand new homepage last week.

Our main goal with this redesign was to make the site more approachable i.e. expose some of EveryTrail Member’s greatest content, while making the vast amounts of great geotagged photos (now over over 80,000!) and global trips (now over 13,000 public trips in over 100 countries!) even easier to find.

So far reactions have been extremely positive. Thanks so much!

We are still working on further improvements to the site. Please keep your feedback coming in the EveryTrail forums!

Early this week we launched EveryTrail 3.0. As promised we will be adding incremental improvements over the next couple of weeks. The first is here now.

Yesterday we gave the View Trip pages a face lift. Here’s what’s new:

Large photos are now shown on-page, and it is much easier to browse through all photos within a trip. Just click the arrows alongside the large photo. The map will show where each photo was taken. You can also play the trip as a slide show, by clicking the green “Play” button (green arrow). Alternatively you can quickly and easily move through the thumbnails at the bottom of the page. Click a thumbnail to show the large image, and show its position on the map. All this can be done without leaving the trip page.

Trip stats are shown next to map, when you click the “stats” link above the map (stats view is the default for trips without photos). Currently we show elevation and speed charts. When you mouseover a chart, the corresponding location on the map is shown. Stats can also be played by clicking the green play button below the charts.

We are still tweaking and further improving these new pages. We are excited by this new launch, as we think it’s a big improvement and brings us another step closer to our goal to become the single best way to share trip experiences with your family, friends and the world.

Please let us know in the forums if you have any suggestions.

EveryTrail just got better… again!

We released a new version this evening with a couple of improvements:

• Improved layout of Find Trips pages. The page is now more intuitive for first time users, because the links that allow drilling down on trip selections by activities and/or locations were moved to the left of the page
• We added 2 new ways to sort trips on the Find Trips pages : By “Recent Popularity” (the new default sort order) and by Trip Date. The other ways to sort trips (”All-Time Topularity” and “Trip Creation Date“) are still in place
• You can now select and deselect activities on the World Map
• Wysiwig text boxes to make it easier to add descriptions and tips to trips.
• We added “geonames” and waypoint names to trip detail pages

We are gearing up for a very active summer here at EveryTrail. Expect more improvements from us soon!

We just integrated the brand new Google Earth API. Now you can view your trips in 3D without having to start the Google Earth desktop application. This is another big step that enables our vision to seamlessly remember and share your trips!

To view your GPS tracks and geotagged photos in 3D, use the drop down on the top right of any trip map and select “Google Earth 3D”.

Please let us know in the forums if you have any suggestion.