Google My Tracks updated to version 2.0, play back your tours on Google Earth

My Tracks, the 'adventure' tracking application from Google, has received an update today to version 2.0. The app itself has been around single 2009, so an update was well due. It uses the GPS on your device to "visualize your location" over time, and allow you to share the data on Google Maps and Google Earth. With version 2.0, we get a new feature that could make all this location data look oh so much better. 

With the update, comes the ability to view your tracked routes right within the Google Earth for Android application. That'll be the same Google Earth application that just benefitted from a sweet 3D update then. Relive those trips down the Vegas strip in glorious 3D. 

Additionally, the whole UI has been given a pretty big spruce up and is now faster and simpler, and beautifully within the Android 4.x design guidelines -- but then this is Google, so we'd expect at least that. There's also the aggregation of statistics over time to show trends in your performance, and improved charts and stats tables that are easier to read. My Tracks 2.0 is live this very second in the Google Play Store, so head on over there to grab it for yourselves. 

Source: Google Lat-Long; Download: My Tracks

My Tracks for Android updated with Google Earth playback, performance stats

Google's My Tracks app has been updated today to version 2.0 with a few new features to help those wanting to document their journeys.

• The ability to play back your tour directly on Google Earth for Android
• Aggregation of statistics over time to show trends in your performance
• Simpler, faster user interface
• Improved charts and stats tables that are easier to read

With summer upon us and plenty of hiking and biking trips to be had, My Tracks seems like it could be a great way to chronicle your journeys, and with the right tools, it could be a great fitness companion. If only it had more photography functions, My Tracks could be a fine way to view geotagged pictures. 

The download link is below for anyone interested. Anyone have particularly useful experiences with My Tracks?

Source: Google Lat Long
Download: My Tracks

Google Earth updated to better share, new gestures

Google Earth has just had a bump to Version 6.2, which provides a number of new improvements. Probably the most important is the addition of the Gallery of the Earth, which highlights of things like the new updates to Imaging, earthquakes in real time, the flights in time real and other cool layers. He ' s also a mode of update of hiking which allows you to launch balloons of the gallery or to the Interior. Sharing is updated so that you can push through Google + (or other social networks), and there are new zoom and pinch, with bugfixes gestures.

We ' ve got links to the download after the break, if you need ' em.

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