http://blog.gpsinsight.com Advanced GPS Fleet Tracking Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:09:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Keir is still hiking across the harsh Chilean desert as we speak, tracked with a 5.9 oz. satellite tracker in his pack. [caption id="attachment_1425" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="Keir hiking across the Chilean desert"][/caption] Not to be outdone, I covered 40 miles today in the harsh wilderness myself, with only the assistance of 20 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/03/keir-is-still-racing-across-the-desert-in-chile-tracked-by-gps-insight/ 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. [caption id="attachment_1419" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="112th out of 127 left in the race"][/caption] The site says he has raced for just shy of 40 hours. We are tracking ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/03/40-hours-into-the-atcama-crossing-race-the-planet-race-in-chile/ 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/03/tracking-keir-across-the-desert-in-chile/ 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/03/not-all-ski-slope-gps-tracking-is-made-equal/ 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/03/drag-and-drop-to-create-fleet-tracking-maps-in-gps-insights-dashboard/ 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. [caption id="attachment_1253" align="aligncenter" width="512" caption="GPS Insight checks our one billionth GPS Tracking alert"][/caption] Last night it showed that we have passed ONE ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/02/gps-insight-checks-our-billionth-alert/ 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.  ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/02/better-gps-tracking-than-ez-1000s-for-skiing/ 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/02/really-convenient-new-mapping-feature-drag-a-vehicle-onto-the-dashboard-to-create-an-instant-follow-me-map/ 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/02/powerful-new-hierarchy-capability-save-a-custom-hierarchy-group/ [caption id="attachment_1222" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="GPS Insight sends out our Millionth Alert"][/caption] 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 ... http://blog.gpsinsight.com/2010/02/gps-insight-sends-out-our-millionth-alert/