dotTrackIt On Foot.
For most outdoor activities dotTrackIt is the ideal partner to help you get more from your favourite pastimes. The availability of low cost rugged GPS devices means that anyone can begin creating dotTrackIt trails.
- For Walkers; dotTrackIt is ideal for recording How far? How long? How high? Where did we go? Just how far off the beaten track were we? dotTrackIt can be the perfect training aid during the preparation for events or outward bounds expeditions.
The sharing features of dotTrackIt make it ideal for including within your personal blogs and social networking sites. For support teams active tracking units enable better co-ordination of the support teams during long events and help organisers get a better idea where the competitors are.
- For Runners; time and distance is everything. It may be the same route but was it better.
dotTrackIt also records additional attribute including heart rate. The data can be imported for a range of training devices including the Garmin and Polar series. Once inside dotTrackIt, intermediate speeds and distances are calculated and available for you to perform a comprehensive analysis of your performance.
The track data can be used to create virtual races, other people, the same route, their track, dotTrackit allows you to merge the track data into a race event.
- For Orienteers; Add the control points to a route within dotTrackIt to see just how good your navigation skills were.
More experienced racers can use the track information to help novice competitors improve and develop in the sport.
When the potential to share tracks and the export features of dotTrackIt are used, new routes open up for you to discover.
Adventures
For the Bear Grylls types out there dotTrackIt can be used to support longer term adventures. dotTrackIt can be used to automatically receive GPS updates from devices. This allows the adventure to monitored and shared whilst it is happening and is suitable for land, sea and air adventures.
Not only does this help make the adventure itself more interesting and accessible, it can make a significant contribution to maintaining awareness in the event for PR and fund raising.
dotTrackIt was used recently to track a number of landmark adventures including the Virgin GB Row Challenge and Bear Grylls' journey through the North Western Passage.