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Originally Posted by sampppa View Post
At least for now we don't have a web service where to upload activities...
I contacted Sports Tracker guys some time ago and asked if they would allow eCoach to upload data to their service but i never got answer.
They don't even reply? Jeez. What a shame that people at Nokia aren't cooperative. It'd be fun to share stats with my friends who use Sports Tracker. It's the feature I miss most in eCoach.

Originally Posted by sampppa View Post
There is no step counter in eCoach.I think it should be a separate application...it shouldnt be very complicated application to write
There already is a published app called Pedometer Home Widget, it seems to record steps quite well using N900's own acc meter. I don't know much about coding, but maybe that could be of some use?

Originally Posted by italian chris View Post
Or perhaps read altitude from the map - given the GPS position - using open cycle map or something?
This feature would come in handy, as GPS altitude readings are so inaccurate that they're hardly useful.

Originally Posted by Strutten View Post
1) Is it possible to plot a route? When trying new routes I look them up online, but it would be so great to plot then in eCoach (I need nothing more than the ability to draw a line on the map) and use eCoach as a map while running.
This would be nice as well. Moreover, the software could detect when the user is approximately following the planned route, and "lock" his location on it. (It would of course switch to free gps tracking if the user changes his mind and veers off the route). This would get rid of the squiggly lines and inaccurate length/speed results we get when going really slowly or having a bad GPS connection.

Another feature I'd like to see some day is to be able to fix the worst anomalies from the records afterwards. Like, if the GPS loses signal or otherwise messes up for a few seconds and decides I was running at 200km/h for a moment, I'd like an option to delete the weird point(s) from the records. Maybe the software could then calculate the average between the adjacent points again, if the recording works like that. I have no idea how it works, actually.


Anyway, eCoach has been a really nice and useful app, and it works great, so big up for writing it!

Last edited by Juhgu; 2010-03-30 at 16:01.
 

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