gixxerjasen
Well-known member
Nope, didn't know that, good to know!
You just ruined my productivity at work for the rest of the day.
You just ruined my productivity at work for the rest of the day.
Last edited by a moderator:
1. Just had a look and it wasn't immediately obvious how to download a GPX file from Spotwalla. Any hints?I'm always up for new thoughts and features, and appreciate them greatly.
2 general thoughts I'd like feedback on.
1. Does everyone know they can get their SpotWalla history as a gpx file (and other formats) directly from the devices page in SpotWalla? It's an incredibly useful feature in my opinion, that many people don't seem to know about.
2. One of my fears with storage is that people will forget they are storing, even if it is to the external card. I would hate to end up with a multi GB file sitting on your phone because you forgot to uncheck a box. Many of the Bubbler GPS users dropped a lot of points this summer. Also, since the export of the data was available form SpotWalla directly, the intent of Bubbler GPS is to not duplicate functionality which already exists in other easily accessible apps, unless it can be significantly enhanced or streamlined. I could give you point to point driving directions for example, and it works, but in the end, it was Google maps with less features. At least in my opinion
Further on the duplication of features, I played with showing a map locally on the phone using mapquest maps for the travels of the current day. In the end, it was just the same from a mobile perspective as viewing SpotWalla in your mobile web browser (minus all the cool SpotWalla features of course, just talking about the "map of today's travel")
I want to say that this particular feature is genius. This past weekend I rode across town to a mini tech day. The last few miles to the guy's house were filled with fantastic sweepers on freshly paved road. It was as if the road had been paved by angels.I can create Spotwalla maps of trips in the past, just by creating a new trip, and providing a start date/time and finish date/time in the past.
I just created a trip for today and it worked as expected https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=ab4f53d1263d88780Is anybody having problems with Spotwalla displaying maps today? I tried out bubbler lite yesterday and then I went into spotwalla and Trips and it showed my points on a map correctly. This morning I uinstalled bubbler lite and purchased bubbler pro and now I can't get a map to display on spotwalla. Bubbler says its uploading points fine and when I go to trips on spotwalla and view my gpx file it shows points in the file but when I go to view trip its a just a blue screen with the normal stuff on the left but no map displayed on the right side. I'm not sure if there is a problem with the spotwalla website or something I'm doing. It worked fine yesterday so that is why I bought the pro version of bubbler. The same thing happens when I tried to view my trip from yesterday, no map displayed. Could somebody who has used this for awhile go into their spotwalla account and see if trips are appearing correctly and displaying maps. Thanks
About the only thing that would affect this is if your browser is denying session cookies which SpotWalla uses to be aware that you are indeed logged in. What browser are you using at work?When I go to spotwalla now and login, it has my name in the upper right corner but when I click on devices it prompts me to login again. This is a loop if I keep trying. However, I can click on trips and that page comes up looking fine without prompting me to login. I was in devices earlier this morning without any problems. I logged out and logged back in with the same result. Spotwalla won't let me get to the Devices page, as soon as I click on Devices it wants me to login back in again.
Fjrmgm. Yes, the phone GPS must be on to acquire a point. It's much more accurate that way. The gps itself does not stay on however. It typically only turns on for a few seconds at every cycle (5,10,15 minutes etc) .I have been interested in this app for a while now so thanks for all the positive comments.
this requires your GPS function to be ON on the phone when using, right? Anyone notice any negative battery usage effects from having the app running?
IE is problematic. You may also want to add spotwalla.com to IE's compatibility list...My work pc has IE9 on it. I had another guy at work with the exact same pc as me try "The Friends" link to view a trip and he didn't get the map to show up either. Something to do with the security or something on our work pc's. At least I know it's not the Spotwalla website. I should have tried to view a trip on my phone first before I even posted the problem but I didn't even think of it.
Enter your email address to join: