Secrets of the new Sports Tracker widget
Published by Rafe Blandford at 11:11 BST, May 6th 2008
Nokia's Sports Tracker has proved to be one of the must-have GPS applications. It is now possible to share journeys recorded using Sports Tracker via the brand new Nokia Maps and Photography widget. Steve explains how the photo location actually works and runs through the steps needed to get your own Sports Tracker powered widget up and running, including how to embed it in almost any web page and with a tweaked example formatted for wider blogs and pages.
"Enter Nokia's clumsily named 'Maps and Photography' widget. As the title suggests, this takes the idea of showing others your tracks and photos and provides the functionality in a handy widget that anyone can embed in any web page, or a social media page or blog (only Facebook and Blogger are 'officially' supported now, but take that with a pinch of salt - the Blogger code is standard HTML and will work in just about anything). See the bottom of this page for a real world example!"
Read on for more.
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Unregistered
Decided to give this a try after reading about it on here. Below is my first walk, 5 miles round checkers recorded on my 6120c using a BlueNEXT GPS receiver. Lost the signal a bit, not for the first time on this walk.
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/w...x.do?id=171641slitchfield
Thanks for commenting. Although note that the real thrust of the tutorial was about using and embedding the widget, i.e. *not* using the main Sports Tracker web site 8-)
Unregistered
Thanks for the comment on my comment, however I see that you didn't manage to get it working in the main article...
Unregistered
I think if you look just above, you will see Steve's example...
Unregistered
...main article, right underneath where it says "and feel free to comment with the URLs of your Sports Tracker trips!" where there is a big gap..?
Rafe
It seems not everyone can see the widget. Try clicking on where it should be and choosing Play not Loop. I get this in Firefox sometimes (I'll see if I can work out why).
Unregistered
Thank you Rafe, for you aid and your kindness.
krisse
I get absolutely nothing, just a big gap. I've tried clicking and it makes no difference. (using Firefox 2.0.0.14)
krisse
Ahhh... RIGHTclick and select play. Yes, that works.
Unregistered
Got it working in Facebook, although you'll have to take my word for it.
bartmanekul
Can you do more than one track on a picture? I.e. Sunday run in red, and Mondays run in blue. That would be extremely handy.
Rafe
Looks like a page refresh will also make the widget appear for Firefox users.
bartmanekul
Hmmm. At the bottom of the nokia PDF, it says go to
www.sportstracker.com. And when you do, its blatently not a nokia site.
Anyone else getting this?
Also, there isnt actually any instructions on how to do it. Creating an account - yes, linking your phone with your account - yes, but nothing on how to actually show the route, or anything else for that matter. Did you do it by guesswork, or did you have a PDF that I couldnt find?
I have got a blank window so far, but I have no idea how to pick a route to display in it.
krisse
slitchfield
You show the route, once uploaded, by simply embedding their clipboard-copied code. Takes 2 seconds 8-)
Just try it, I was surprised at how quick it was!
bartmanekul
Thanks Krisse, found it but Im more concerned about nokia directing people to a betting site!
Steve, embed what? I have a blank screen on my webpage - by getting the code generated from the blogger thing - , and I have uploaded at least one workout (without pictures - I dont want any on there) but nothing goes.
Just a black screen, sadly :(
Is there some actual code I need to add into the code that gets generated from the site?
Or does it just (in theory) display your latest workout upload?
Rafe
bartmanekul - may be the same problem I'm having with the embedding - i.e. it not being seen in Firefix. I just tried your username (guessed it) and it worked fine.
bartmanekul
I think its something else. Just tried the facebook version - that works fine.
The flash bit loads fine, theres just nothing in the box. Im using IE and have refreshed it a fair few times.
Tried it in FF and it says I need Javascript and Flash - but I have the most recent versions of both.
Unregistered
What would be interesting to see is whether the widget gets updated everytime a new workout is done.
I have managed to get this into a blog post so the route is shown next to some comments that are relevent for that particular workout. If the widget then changes to a new route after my next workout, then that particular blog post becomes something of a nonsense. I will find out after another walk I'll track tonight.
Apologies that I'm not comfortable sharing the blog with you as it is rather personal.
One other thing, I've manage to input a route exported from Viewranger as a *.gpx, which is very nice. I look forward to seeing if I can use Sports Tracker to follow the route...
Unregistered
Now the world is able to trace your steps. Giving away more of our privacy to the criminals, now they know what walk you do every morning and evening...
I don't like being negative but it is something we have to be aware off...
Unregistered
If I use "Live sharing" feature, does it show my status on this widget also?
bartmanekul
Quote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered
Now the world is able to trace your steps. Giving away more of our privacy to the criminals, now they know what walk you do every morning and evening...
I don't like being negative but it is something we have to be aware off...
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Or, you could just turn it off?
And considering the user chooses which workouts to upload, its not exactly giving away our privacy.
Somehow I cant see organised crime making use of sports tracker.
Unregistered
I have just downloaded the latest Sports Tracker, but I still can't see the map in the background as it is shown on the screenshot above (first picture with the Maps & Photography site) while doing the walking just gray blankness.
lovesign
Yup, downloaded, installed widget on Facebook and everything works fine except I don't see the map in the Sports Tracker app on the phone. There is just a blank square where the map is supposed to be :(
Any ideas ??
Wolfcat
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