Due to a couple of bugs i am releasing 1.2.5 today.
Changes:
- removed ADVERTISING from the free release (finally, i hated that!)
- fixed a GPS startup time bug
- fixed annoying "reload last live track" messages when no old livetrack was there

Please upgrade and enjoy.
(will be released later on today on www.trackaway.org

Track@Way 1.2.4: Christmas Release...

Hi all!
After a few days of intense testing i feel ready to release Track@Way 1.2.4. This will be the "Christmas" Release, since it should be the last one before the end of 2011. As you might now, Track@Way 1 will go into bugfix mode only in 2012, i will be working actively on Track@Way 2.0 featuring some great news like OpenStreetMap/OpenCycleMap support, waypoint draggability, tracks storage. But this will come later on in 2012.

At the moment, here is the 1.2.4 changelog:
- fixed visualization bug making lat/lon unreadable when switching coordinate modes.
- fixed slow GPS updates on some circumstances
- Now you casn select the GPS update interval from the configuration (0: automatic, or up to 30 secs)
- Fixed random crash on sone Symbian^3 devices

Supporters will receive the updated release this morning. The website free version will be available by the end of the day on www.trackaway.org and OVI releases will follow after the usual OVI delays...

Stay tuned!
 UPDATE: given the abysmal results of over six months of advertising (0,09 euros of revenues) i decided to REMOVE all advertisement from Track@Way. I never liked it anyway, so enjoy and please buy the supporter release if you like it.

Roadmap to 2.0

Hi all!

i want to share here with you my toughts on the future of Track@Way and the roadmap to release 2.0....

Here are the features i plan to add for 2.0:
- Support for OpenStreetMap and OpenCycleMap (as a background layer, by downloading OSM XML files and on-the-fly rendering...)
- Support for a database of tracks: you will be able to load all your preferred tracks in Track@Way and always see them, like it's for maps now...
- Support for "active" tracking table, where you can tap and add/edit waypoints in much simpler way than now...
- Direct send SMS feature, because yes i would be happy to receive greets and thanks from you

What do you think? A time-frame at the moment would be march/april 2012 for a formal 2.0 release ready for OVI store and Android Marketplace... Meanwhile, beta releases will be available to supporters and others willing to be experimental...

Delay on 1.2.4

I am sorry for the delay in 1.2.4, but i am still struggling with a few things.
First of all, the external GPS cannot be manually selected from within Track@Way. Check this discussion no the subject: here this is a limitation of the current QtMobility architecture.

Then there is the seldom crash issue, which on my X7 creash Track@Way sometimes. Sometimes instead it works flawlessy for hours... so i am baffled and i cannot reproduce it properly.

But i fixed a minor visualization bug in the lat/lon label which now will resize properly when you change the coordinates format!

So stay tuned, 1.2.4 will come next week...

During the weekend tests i hit a bug in 1.2.3 which causes crash. I am investigating this before releaseing 1.2.4.
At the same time some users pointed the need to a fix to make the external GPS antenna easier to use (now you need to switch the itnernal GPS off). I will investigate this also and add to 1.2.4.

UTM bug...

Thanks to a kind user i found a bug in UTM coordonates visualization.
Instead of:

12 34 567E 12 34 567E
you see:
1234567 567E 1234567 567N

which is clearly wrong. This fix will be in 1.2.4 sometime next week.