August 12

Nerdiness on the High Seas

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A day or so back, I blogged about a couple of trackers, including Nick "Big Oceans" Jaffe and his solo passage home to Oz. He commented on the post and gave some details about his tracker. If you are interested in new communications technology for sailors you should check out Nick's site as it is pretty tricked out. As a nerd myself, I am a little in awe. I am not sure what GeoXML is but I want one:
Hey Adam, I thought I would double-nerd your post with some info about my new tracker... It is Flash application fed with GeoXML, that includes my geo-referenced Flickr photos (clicking the white icons brings those up) and a GeoXML export of my positions, which have been maintained throughout my trip since Holland. I update my position over Iridium using email, which then cross-posts my message to Twitter. I've just added stats to my updates too, which will include speed over ground, heading, 24 hour run, miles to destination etc... Which will also be updated to Twitter when I start my next leg (waiting on Hurricanes here in Honolulu...). My tracker is part of a bigger project. As I am a bit of a tracking geek, I might add that the Rolex tracker is written by Geovoile, a French company. Their race tracker is in a lot of big European racing, including the recent Portimao Ocean Race (http://www.globalracetracker.com/en/). One of the neat things about their tracker is the weather/GRIB overlay. ;) Ok, no more nerding. Cheers, Nick

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