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Originally Posted by 7100simpleisbetter
I am a pearl user and I bought the Skylab MobileTracker with hopes it would do what I wanted. First, it connected to my puck (Holux 240) just fine for tracking. It had a few bugs but it was liveable. The biggest disappointment that I had was that it did not record time or distance and in Google Maps/Earth you need to manually select the path to get the actual distance, which if you have a long path it is a pain. If you want to see your basic movements it is a decent program and very basic interface. If you want to know any other information like speed, distance, etc, it does not seem to track that in the file. Maybe if they exported to GLX format it could be configured to contain this information and Google Earth can read that as well.
Good luck and I hope if they make updates registered users will get free upgrades to this product.
SIB
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There is a new version of Mobile Tracker out that fixes a lot of these issues that I had. I think my only complaint at this point is the distance tracking is only in meters and would prefer it in miles, I can do the conversion but would much rather the system do it for me. I plan to let them know but here is a list of new features that work very well and it doesn't stop tracking just because the GPS is no longer receiving satellite information, it just waits for the next available set of coordinates and keeps on chugging and in the view on GE it is a straight line connecting the two coordinates between the lost signal (which is what is expected).
To sum it up, this application is now a pretty good app very similar to the GPSTrack but with the ability to run in the background which GPSTrack does not do and the new functionality is pretty slick so you hit play on the timeline in GE and see your path travelled relative to time. If there was any complaints it is that you cannot select metric/US for final reporting.
SIB