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Keir is still racing across the desert in Chile, tracked by GPS Insight

Mar 12, 2010 6:07pm

Keir is still hiking across the harsh Chilean desert as we speak, tracked with a 5.9 oz. satellite tracker in his pack. Not to be outdone, I covered 40 miles today in the harsh wilderness myself, with only the assistance of 20 ski lifts, gravity, 2 skis and a couple of...

40 hours into the Atacama Crossing “Race the Planet” race in Chile

Mar 12, 2010 6:56am

Keir is doing well, in 112th place (out of 127 left in the race), and there are a LOT of people who have dropped out. The site says he has raced for just shy of 40 hours. We are tracking him every hour with a GPS Insight TT-1900. I ran a track...

Tracking Keir across the desert in Chile

Mar 9, 2010 1:14pm

My Brother-in-law Keir Oxley is at it again, doing another “Racing the Planet” 126 mile extreme race through the desert in Chile (his blog is available here). Last time we tracked him through the Sahara Desert. They are raising money for earthquake victims. Again we are tracking him using a TT-1900, which...

Not all ski slope GPS Tracking devices are made equal

Mar 9, 2010 12:54pm

I’m on a vacation at Park City Utah, and I have a new app for my iPhone called Navionics. It lets you see where all the ski trails are, and search for them, as well as track your own trail. It’s got great features, but is a shining example of...

Drag and Drop to create Fleet Tracking Maps in GPS Insight’s dashboard

Mar 1, 2010 1:34pm

We just added a couple nice new capabilities to make it trivial to create a map on the GPS Insight dashboard by dragging and dropping either a single vehicle or the name of the group up at the top of the dashboard. Just be careful to move dashlets by dragging on...

GPS Insight checks our BILLIONTH alert !

Feb 23, 2010 6:05am

Sometime yesterday GPS Insight checked our ONE BILLIONTH alert for our customers. Every night I get a small report showing how many checks and how many actual alerts have been processed/sent. Last night it showed that we have passed ONE BILLION alert checks, and just over one MILLION alerts (1,036,790 to be...

Better GPS Tracking than EZ-1000’s for Skiing

Feb 21, 2010 9:14pm

I took my boys (7 & 9) skiing (snowboarding they correct me every time…) up to Flagstaff AZ this weekend. I brought my Garmin Edge 705 (a Garmin for bikes, basically) & put it in my coat pocket to get a really good feel for where we went during the weekend. ...

REALLY convenient new mapping feature — drag a vehicle onto the dashboard to create an instant “follow me” map

Feb 18, 2010 7:22pm

Recently a prospective customer asked us to add a “half-height” map. We did that within a few days (as well as a 2x, 3x height map). When using it though, I thought it took too long to use the menus to choose the right vehicle, etc. I decided it would be...

Powerful new Hierarchy capability — save a custom Hierarchy Group

Feb 18, 2010 7:07pm

We now have support for saving a custom hierarchical view — as well as using that in a scheduled report. We still have not given access to the hierarchy to all customers, but are happy to allow you access as a beta customer if you just ask. Here’s how it works: When running...

GPS Insight sends out our Millionth Alert!

Feb 17, 2010 12:32am

GPS Insight sent out our millionth alert on Sunday, February 14. GPS Insight has checked just shy of one BILLION alerts, so that means that only one out of 1,000 driver events is “exceptional.” Depending on how the alerts are defined, that could be good or bad… Either way, we’re glad...