GPS location tracker? I remember seeing one...

[WhiteBlazer01]

I believe there are a few of them, but I'm looking for a good app that can track my GPS location every few seconds (or longer if I can change the settings). Possibly log the locations in a file, and I can plot them on a map. Any suggestions?

[bluruld]

I am also looking for a GPS logger. I like to get on my bicycle and just go. It would be nice to save a trip for future reference.

[xxkennynycxx]

Originally Posted by bluruld

I am also looking for a GPS logger. I like to get on my bicycle and just go. It would be nice to save a trip for future reference.

For working out either running, walking, bicycle even skating I recomend "Sportypal" (http://www.sportypal.com) It tracks you with GPS and at the end it puts it on a map for ya. Tells you average speed and a bunch of good info. For normal allday tracking I dont know what to recomend you, plus it would prob drain your battery even faster.

[northernpenguin]

For more casual use GPS Tracking, I'm using Google Latitude and the API access from Google -- for example I have a tracking application for our next big hike event in October, combined with KML display. This lets our friends and family know where we are on the hike without much effort on my part.

The nice thing about using Latitude is that I can drop it down to cell-tower location and save my battery life for the hike. But this is useless if you're looking for GPS accurate tracklog info (bring an extra battery!)

Google Latitude: http://m.google.com/latitude
The tracker website I built: http://torontogeocaching.com/bthike

SkyFire works great for checking if my update went through, as Google Maps displays properly in that browser.

[normalguy]

Originally Posted by northernpenguin

For more casual use GPS Tracking, I'm using Google Latitude and the API access from Google -- for example I have a tracking application for our next big hike event in October, combined with KML display. This lets our friends and family know where we are on the hike without much effort on my part.

The nice thing about using Latitude is that I can drop it down to cell-tower location and save my battery life for the hike. But this is useless if you're looking for GPS accurate tracklog info (bring an extra battery!)

Google Latitude: http://m.google.com/latitude
The tracker website I built: http://torontogeocaching.com/bthike

SkyFire works great for checking if my update went through, as Google Maps displays properly in that browser.

How do you set Google Maps to use cell phone only?

[bluruld]

wow so many options. i guess it is time to play.

[Vegasden]

Something like this?

[headshokfatty]

I think this is what your looking for
http://gpstracka.codeplex.com/
Simple straight up GPS to log file at specified interval. Then you can put it into Google earth( kml) or GPX.
I've used it to track bike rides and its perfect. Its much easier on the battery than sportypal is.

[godong]

I've used trackme for a little more than one year now as mentioned by Vegasden on post #6 (from Vogue ... to Touch Pro 2). It works really well to track my hiking/bicycling activity. It also uploads the kml data to the web (I run my own tracker website based on PHP code supplied). Combined with some other freeware out there I've used this to phototag my camera taken picture as well ...

Trackme also has a nice feature to run in background without running the GPS all the time (Not a battery hog). You can set it up so that it send your cellphone location in case it is missing through an 'SMS keyword'. The location can be sent as an e-mail or sms.

Admittedly, you have to do some setup on the software but it is the most powerful GPS software for WinMo nowadays (IMHO)...