As many of you know, I have a new job in California at Juniper Networks and am in the process of traveling from Boca Raton, FL to San Jose, CA. I saw this as a perfect opportunity to really give my N82 a workout and put some of the apps I have been playing with through their paces. First and foremost is Nokia's Sportstracker. I use this each day to track my progress across the country.
Day 1 from Boca to Pensacola.
Day 2 from Pensacola to Austin.
Day 3 tooling around my parents' neighborhood
Day 4 from Austin to Las Cruces
Day 5 from Las Cruces to Palm Springs
Day 6 from Palm Springs to San Jose, my new home.
All new ones will be linked from my Sportstracker profile, so click on that to view remaining journey from Austin to California.
In addition to the Sportstracker, I am making heavy use of Shozu to tag and automatically upload my pictures to my destinationCA Ovi channel. But you don't even have to click on those, just check out the live ticker:
Sportstracker as originally conceived is for tracking your running, walking, cycling, etc. type activities so it has an athletic slant to it, rather than a cross-the-country-in-your-car type focus. Nokia is in the process of replacing it with a product they call NokiaVine, but since it is not ready for general use just yet, I am using SportsTracker which works just fine. (nokiaVine went live about two days after I arrived in California, MobileDan has a great writeup about it and if you are interested, I highly recommend you check out his post and all the pictures/screenshots he has taken).
The original plan:
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My actual route, according to SportsTracker:
(This post edited on November 30, 2008 to include all the legs of the journey and to move some technical description to a "how I made this" post)
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All new ones will be linked from my Sportstracker profile, so click on that to view remaining journey from Austin to California.
In addition to the Sportstracker, I am making heavy use of Shozu to tag and automatically upload my pictures to my destinationCA Ovi channel. But you don't even have to click on those, just check out the live ticker:
Sportstracker as originally conceived is for tracking your running, walking, cycling, etc. type activities so it has an athletic slant to it, rather than a cross-the-country-in-your-car type focus. Nokia is in the process of replacing it with a product they call NokiaVine, but since it is not ready for general use just yet, I am using SportsTracker which works just fine. (nokiaVine went live about two days after I arrived in California, MobileDan has a great writeup about it and if you are interested, I highly recommend you check out his post and all the pictures/screenshots he has taken).
The original plan:
View Larger Map
My actual route, according to SportsTracker:
(This post edited on November 30, 2008 to include all the legs of the journey and to move some technical description to a "how I made this" post)
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2 comments:
hey got ur link via beta labs comment. My name is joseph asmar. Very nice smooth blog, i enjoyed breezing through.
Wat i wanted to comment on (as a joke...lol) are u crazy comin down to san jose from boca ratoun. I live in san jose, an i spent time in miami an hollywood, ill take florida any day lol. The life is like no other. Naw im joking. Enjoy ur trip.
Hey thanks Joseph! I appreciate the compliment. As you can see, I am heavily using various Nokia beta apps to track the journey. Look for a follup post where I go more in-depth of the tools used.
No, I am not crazy. South Florida is a nice place to visit, but I lived there for 2.5 years and in the Bay Area for 3. There's a lot more going on in California!
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