Everytrail

[FuzzyRider]

If you get tired of always answering the "So, where did you ride?" question and you'd like a place that kept track of where you've been and even stores pictures and speed/elevation data for rides then let me suggest https://www.everytrail.com - here's an example of a ride I took this past Saturday:

https://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=166695

All you have to do is create an account (free), upload your GPS track (in my case an exported GPX file that includes only the track from that day), give a basic description, attach some pics and voila. Be sure and click on the "stats" link above the map to see speed/elevation data.

 

[BwanaDik]

Really excellent!

What kind of GPS are you using?

Where do you get 3000 ft elevation in N.E. Texas?

 

[pawtracks]

Thanks for sharing, that site will come in handy

 

[FuzzyRider]

Really excellent!
What kind of GPS are you using?

Where do you get 3000 ft elevation in N.E. Texas?

I'm using a Nuvi 5000 and Garmin's RoadTrip software (Mac version of MapSource) to extract the tracks. As for the elevation up and elevation down, what's going on is anytime you go uphill it adds to the elevation up. Anytime you go downhill it adds to elevation down. So if I go up 10 feet then down 10 feet and I repeat that 5 times I will have an elevation up of 50 feet and an elevation down of 50 feet.

Thanks for sharing, that site will come in handy

You're welcome. I felt lucky to have stumbled across that site so I thought I would share.

 

[Crash Cash]

I am seriously impressed that it handled my huge 8-day 4.9MB Honda Hoot trail. That's the one I did on the SV-650 and not the FJR because I couldn't get tires mounted. Yeah, I needed ass surgery after that. I also bought a No-Mar tire mounter too! My Holux M-241 can handle 65,000 data points, but none of the mapping software can, except this site.

Their vertical up/vertical down seems to have an issue as the GPS only went up to 5,166ft on the Cherohala, but the "vertical up" is 17,221 ft. Is that cumulative up/down maybe?

That's the best trail site I've seen yet... Thanks for the tip!

Edit: fixed link

 

[Frushlorton]

Great post. If you enjoy both the tracks and photos, you should look into a program called Media Mapper. You can load any maps or imagery and layer them to drill down. The best feature is when you download your track, and your photos it will sync them and lay your photos over your track and add gps info to the photo. Your track will have big dots for your pics that will open when clicked. They can also be exported to a web page or power point.

Anyway, thanks for the free website, I will definitely put it to use.

 

[FuzzyRider]

I am seriously impressed that it handled my huge 8-day 4.9MB Honda Hoot trail. That's the one I did on the SV-650 and not the FJR because I couldn't get tires mounted. Yeah, I needed ass surgery after that. I also bought a No-Mar tire mounter too! My Holux M-241 can handle 65,000 data points, but none of the mapping software can, except this site.
Their vertical up/vertical down seems to have an issue as the GPS only went up to 5,166ft on the Cherohala, but the "vertical up" is 17,221 ft. Is that cumulative up/down maybe?

That's the best trail site I've seen yet... Thanks for the tip!

Yep, the vertical up/down is cumulative - anytime you go up it adds to the counter and anytime you go down it add to that counter. You're welcome for the tip!

 

[FuzzyRider]

Great post. If you enjoy both the tracks and photos, you should look into a program called Media Mapper. You can load any maps or imagery and layer them to drill down. The best feature is when you download your track, and your photos it will sync them and lay your photos over your track and add gps info to the photo. Your track will have big dots for your pics that will open when clicked. They can also be exported to a web page or power point.

Anyway, thanks for the free website, I will definitely put it to use.

Thanks for the tip on Media Mapper. Hopefully there's a Mac version of the software that I can try out. And you're welcome for the website, I figure it was worth passing along.

 

[mlvlvr]

Dear FuzzyRider,

My company GlobalMotion Media, Inc. publishes EveryTrail, so many thanks for the kind words. If I may, without seeming too much like a huckster, let me add a few notes of explanation.

www.everytrail.com is the largest online community for creating, sharing and exploring stories with maps and photos. We will cross 75k trips in inventory today. We use GPS to tie the two together in a unique way. Our users are hikers, drivers, pilots, mariners, motorcyclists and postal workers on their daily route. Users combine gps tracks from handheld devices with photos from digital cameras, uploading both via the internet to our site. Or they use our free mobile phone applications (EveryTrail, The Bike Computer, The Ski Computer, or Geotagging) on iPhone, Android, Blackberry or Windows Mobile, to do it all. The phone applications are easier, but you may prefer your digital camera, or you may have issues with phone battery life, or whatever. If you're a Globalstar Spot Instant Messenger user, we have some special services for you, so please get in touch with me about that.

Our site has a fully featured social network allowing you to share your content, follow users, post to facebook, and soon (like next week), we'll be introducing some state of the art tracking and notification. Lots of stuff is in the queue.

Our companion site, www.gpsvisualizer, has excellent tools for conversion and modification of gps data, if you should need it.

I invite you to send us feedback, constructive if not necessarily favorable, either to our forums, or directly to me (until I'm inundated), dan AT globalmotion DOT com.

Thanks,

Dan

 

[FantasticJohnR]

Great site- but am I the only paranoid one- could posting your trip with speed data get you in trouble? Think about the UTube cases where someone posts something showing they break the law and they get in trouble. Say I post a trip showing a max speed of 120 mph. Is that documenting for the Leos that I broke the law? :scooter:

 

[FuzzyRider]

Great site- but am I the only paranoid one- could posting your trip with speed data get you in trouble? Think about the UTube cases where someone posts something showing they break the law and they get in trouble. Say I post a trip showing a max speed of 120 mph. Is that documenting for the Leos that I broke the law? :scooter:

I certainly hope not. I have a friend who rides a Goldwing and his GPS - a Garmin 2730 - will occasionally show a Max Speed of 385 MPH. Now, I know that GL1800s have a fair amount of power, especially for a big touring bike, but dayyyummmm, 300+ MPH is pretty good. Of course he does have a K&N filter so maybe that gives him the horsepower boost.

 

[Crash Cash]

Great site- but am I the only paranoid one- could posting your trip with speed data get you in trouble? Think about the UTube cases where someone posts something showing they break the law and they get in trouble. Say I post a trip showing a max speed of 120 mph. Is that documenting for the Leos that I broke the law? :scooter:

I certainly hope not. I have a friend who rides a Goldwing and his GPS - a Garmin 2730 - will occasionally show a Max Speed of 385 MPH. Now, I know that GL1800s have a fair amount of power, especially for a big touring bike, but dayyyummmm, 300+ MPH is pretty good. Of course he does have a K&N filter so maybe that gives him the horsepower boost.

Yeah, that's because one position update is hugely out of whack, but they can always do the distance/time=speed between two sane positions, so if the timestamps on the positions are correct, yer still screwed.

What *I* would be leery of... would be any trails that show where home is. And here's my easytrail user page. Which shows I'm not that worried about it.

 

[mlvlvr]

Great site- but am I the only paranoid one- could posting your trip with speed data get you in trouble? Think about the UTube cases where someone posts something showing they break the law and they get in trouble. Say I post a trip showing a max speed of 120 mph. Is that documenting for the Leos that I broke the law? :scooter:

I certainly hope not. I have a friend who rides a Goldwing and his GPS - a Garmin 2730 - will occasionally show a Max Speed of 385 MPH. Now, I know that GL1800s have a fair amount of power, especially for a big touring bike, but dayyyummmm, 300+ MPH is pretty good. Of course he does have a K&N filter so maybe that gives him the horsepower boost.

Yeah, that's because one position update is hugely out of whack, but they can always do the distance/time=speed between two sane positions, so if the timestamps on the positions are correct, yer still screwed.

What *I* would be leery of... would be any trails that show where home is. And here's my easytrail user page. Which shows I'm not that worried about it.

That's a nice use of showing your individual trips page. Look for some new enhancements on this within a few days. Also, and not to be a whiner, it's everytrail, not easytrail. Finally, the speed shown in our widget is a many point moving average, so it's not accurate when you're doing short accelerations. Does what you see there ever bother you, or is it OK as is? Myself, I think it needs some work. Thanks for posting about us.

 

[Crash Cash]

That's a nice use of showing your individual trips page. Look for some new enhancements on this within a few days. Also, and not to be a whiner, it's everytrail, not easytrail. Finally, the speed shown in our widget is a many point moving average, so it's not accurate when you're doing short accelerations. Does what you see there ever bother you, or is it OK as is? Myself, I think it needs some work. Thanks for posting about us.

Sorry about the wrong name... my bad. Yeah, I'd post issues and suggestions in your forums, except that it requires Yet Another Account Registration (it REALLY should be linked to the main account) and even then I get "Creating a new account is currently not possible." Oops. Maybe you need to hire Ignacio? Oh, and the iframe for the speed/distance graphs is barely too small and always has irritating scrollbars, at least in Firefox on Linux.

But this is way off-topic for here, so I'll stop there...

 

[FantasticJohnR]

That's a nice use of showing your individual trips page. Look for some new enhancements on this within a few days. Also, and not to be a whiner, it's everytrail, not easytrail. Finally, the speed shown in our widget is a many point moving average, so it's not accurate when you're doing short accelerations. Does what you see there ever bother you, or is it OK as is? Myself, I think it needs some work. Thanks for posting about us.

I did start a page of my own. I do think this site is fantastic- but also had my speed as 250 or so MPH- but on the GPS my max shows something a bit more realistic. So, only bug is the speed calculation.

Great site - thanks for putting it together!

 

[mlvlvr]

That's a nice use of showing your individual trips page. Look for some new enhancements on this within a few days. Also, and not to be a whiner, it's everytrail, not easytrail. Finally, the speed shown in our widget is a many point moving average, so it's not accurate when you're doing short accelerations. Does what you see there ever bother you, or is it OK as is? Myself, I think it needs some work. Thanks for posting about us.

Sorry about the wrong name... my bad. Yeah, I'd post issues and suggestions in your forums, except that it requires Yet Another Account Registration (it REALLY should be linked to the main account) and even then I get "Creating a new account is currently not possible." Oops. Maybe you need to hire Ignacio? Oh, and the iframe for the speed/distance graphs is barely too small and always has irritating scrollbars, at least in Firefox on Linux.

But this is way off-topic for here, so I'll stop there...

You are quite right about the inconvenience on the forums. It's being fixed and may have been pushed to production already last night. ... I was not aware of the Firefox on Linux issues. I'll forward this to the right guys and see if they can do something about it. There's a lot on their plates.

 

[Crash Cash]

You are quite right about the inconvenience on the forums. It's being fixed and may have been pushed to production already last night. ... I was not aware of the Firefox on Linux issues. I'll forward this to the right guys and see if they can do something about it. There's a lot on their plates.

Daaang! well shut my mouf... it's getting better and better. I've been burned by so many of these sites that essentially grab your data and run, so I was rather cynical to start with, but you folks are putting the effort into it. Once the forum login issue is fixed, it'll be pretty darn good.

Keep up the good work!