Last week I wasn't liking what I was seeing in the mirror, the bulge of fat around my stomach. From that time I've made a conscience effort to lose some weight. I did try using Nokia Sports Tracker before, but I never really dove into the features it offered, and abandoned it for a while. Since last week in my walks I've had it activated and occasionally set it to live stream my walk which could be followed on the Sports Tracker website. I also had the Location Tagger running in the background, and was taking pictures of any interesting sites or scenes during my walk. These photos being geotagged, it's an easy effort to upload them to the Sports Tracker website with the workout stats at the same time. Of course thanks to Mark he has a tutorial on how to embed this info from Sports Tracker on Google Maps. During the last week I've made a few observations and have some issues with the service which I hope can be ironed out for the next release of Sports Tracker.
1. In the path tracer on the applications, you can only see a trace of where you have walked so far. Where is the map that shows the streets? It can't be hard to put one there, even if it needs a data connection to retrieve it.
2. It would be great if an Auto Upload option is available so that my workouts get uploaded to the service right after I'm finished.
3. Right after the workout is over, I manually try to upload the workout to the service, and half the times it doesn't happen until I reboot the application.
4. When the workouts get uploaded, the pictures don't make it almost half the times. At all. Even when they do at times they aren't position correctly.
5. This might be related to the internal GPS of the N95-4 (or all N95s in general), but the speeds and altitudes have too much fluctuations in the readout on the application and on the website. Does anyone else have a problem with this? Is there more precision with an external bluetooth GPS?
6. It's relatively easy to import the Sportstracker info to Google maps. However in the process the geotagged photos on Sports Tracker don't make it through for some reason in the final map on Google Maps. This could be a glitch in the system or something wrong in the setup.
Still, this is a great application and service combined together, and it's a must have for any S60 and workout junkies.
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