Friday, April 29, 2011

Keyboard Controls

During the animation, the following keys can be used:
  • SPACE : Play/Pause;
  • E : go faster;
  • Q : go slower;
  • A or ← : rotate camera to the left;
  • D or : rotate camera to the right;
  • W or : the camera goes up;
  • S or : the camera goes down.

When using the photo gallery, the following keys can be used:
  • A or ← : previous photo;
  • D or : next photo;
  • S or : back to map view.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Assign location to photos

Useful new feature: add locations to photos based of the time of shot.

Suppose your photos don't have geolocation info, only time, and your track have time too. In this case you can automatically place your photos on the map in just a couple of clicks.

First, place one reference photo manually. This is needed to synchronize clocks between the track and the camera. After that, click "Assign Locations" button on top - all photos are now on the map.

If something goes wrong you can use the "Undo" button.

In other news, we fixed an important bug that prevented some tracks to display.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

NEW: Upload Photos

We added photo upload!

Just use the button "Upload Photos" on the big track view. Many photos can be uploaded at once. Photos will appear under the track.
Geo-tagged photos will automatically appear on the map, others can be placed/moved using drag and drop (even in Earth view).

Click on the thumb to see big photo, then use "Map", "Next", "Prev" buttons to navigate the gallery. You can also use arrows or "A","S","D" buttons to navigate. Click on the caption below to edit it.

That's all at this moment, but we're working on it.

You can see an example here.

PS: You can now place photos automatically






Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Synchronized Zoom, SAT, DOP and New Graph

Some new features:
  • Zooming one graph will now zoom all other graphs in the same way. This can be disabled by clicking the icon representing two arrows on the top of the graph
  • New Graph button on the top of the analyze window can be used to quickly add new graphs
  • Sat (number of satellites), VDOP, PDOP and HDOP was added to the list of imported fields for GPX format

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Vertical Speed & User Homepage

Few improvements:
  • On the user homepage the date of the track is shown instead of the upload date;
  • It's possible to change or set the track date in the info panel on the right;
  • In flying mode the controls disappears;
  • On the analyze page there is a new graph, called "Vertical Speed" (height gain per hour); this graph is avalaible for tracks that have both time and elevation;
  • We removed the timeout that was preventing slow uploads to finish correctly;
  • We did various style improvements;

Here an example of the vertical speed graph

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Smoother Flight + ATV

We improved the flight algo, now it's less "bumpy".
Our approach in case of obstacles between the cameraman and the little yellow guy was too aggressive. Now, the cameraman takes it easy and moves quickly only when the yellow guy is completely lost, otherwise he moves slowly.

Added the ATV aka All Terrains Vehicle to the activities. If you need other activities, just ask.

IMPORTANT BUG FIXED: In the last days it was impossible to sign up because of a bug, now it works again. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks to pierrega who reported it.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

SRTM Data

We improved the SRTM data feature for tracks without elevation data or elevation set to zero. In such cases gpsfly will attempt to fill the elevation using publicly available SRTM data. There is an example: http://gpsfly.org/a/343. We fetch the data as needed, so for tracks in regions where there is no data yet, the upload may be a little bit slower.