Archive for July 15th, 2009
N97 Tour: Day 7, Draw by number and Mobile Camp 2
Yesterday we set out to complete our first set of challenges suggested by the folks at WOM World. As the GPS ambassador for the tour, my first challenge was to use Sports Tracker to draw the number “2″ on San Francisco using Sports Tracker (ala Stavros). This was the first of a three part challenge to draw “24/7″ on our three most recent cities. George Kelly was kind enough to join me and capture some photos and videos along the way, all of which should be uploaded as soon as we can.
Our path took us from North Point St and Van Nesse Ave, followed the coast to the east, southwest on Market St and east on 16th St, ending right under the Embarcadero highway. Check the screenshot below or click here click here to see it all the details on my Sports Tracker page.
Following the completion of the challenge, we made our way to the Swedish American Hall for our second Mobile Camp. We had a larger turnout that the last one and it was excellent meeting so many people. Thanks to everyone that made an appearance!
Just a reminder, if you’re going to be in the Chicago area, PLEASE come to our third and last Mobile Camp at the Illinois Institute of Technology between 10am and 4pm in the Armour Room. It’s free, it’s fun, there’s food, and you get to hang out with new people and devices. Oh, and you get a free T-shirt. Why wouldn’t you go?
Get youself signed up on the official Mobile Camp site (ha) here .
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N97 Tour: Day(s) 5+6, Big Sur and San Francisco
Sunday was our drive up to San Francisco and thanks to several recommendations, we decided to take the long route through Big Sur. I think this image explains why.
We captured a lot of other content including a 30 minute video recorded through the windshield as we climbed the winding paths and George was able to capture that same path on Sports Tracker. This post will be updated with the links when we have everything collected and online.
Monday we did the tourist thing and took a boat under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz, taking plenty of photos, videos, and tracking our route with Sports Tracker.
We challenged ourselves by splitting into two teams prior to the tour and agreed to meet each other in a general location at a certain time. Using a combination of Friend View and Google Latitude, we were able to meet up with each other successfully in a specific location without the need to call one another. Friend View didn’t seem to track us as well as we would have liked and it was slower to load the maps, but Google Latitude performed very well and made our final meetup possible in the end.
