Seasoned internet users often have various user accounts to numerous websites. Keeping track of all the username and password combinations is tiresome. Registering to a yet another new website seems unnecessary.

In SeeMyTrack, we try to maintain philosophy that you should not need to register or log in to use the service, if not absolutely necessary. And if you need to register or sign-in, then it must be easy as possible. If you think some feature in SeeMyTrack should not have a login requisite then give us a shout. Registering and logging in is just plain boring.

Unfortunately, as in any other website, you need to login to SeeMyTrack for example when uploading a GPS track. The easiest option is to login with your existing Facebook account. When you are uploading a track, click on the link Login with Facebook. This will open up a normal Facebook login entry. After filling in your Facebook username and password you are prompted by Facebook whether you let SeeMyTrack to create an user account with your Facebook name, email and profile picture. If you agree, then we will corfirm that a new user account is created with the details. As a last step before having access, we ask you to agree upon the SeeMyTrack Terms.

Voila. You now have full access to SeeMyTrack and you are able to upload your own tracks. However, bear in mind that in order to view tracks you are never asked to login.

Next time that you want to upload more GPS tracks, you just need to login with Facebook and you are ready to go.

Users often want to play their tracks together and compare alternative route choices.

For this purpose we have developed an event tracking feature to the SeeMyTrack where it's possible to merge together unlimited number of tracks. Requirement is that tracks have been recorded at the same time. Merging tracks happens simply by entering an Event name to the uploaded track. Two or more tracks with the same Event name are then merged into one common tracking. Individual tracks are of course kept in tact. It's also possible to change the Event name after a track has been uploaded.

Welcome! You are one of the first visitors to our new site.

SeeMyTrack is a brainchild of two sports and IT-enthusiasts, Vesa and Jouni, from Helsinki, Finland.

History of the SeeMyTrack dates back to November 2007, when after months of development we launched a website called the Sailing Register. The idea with the Sailing Register was to develop a sailing website for race results. Soon after the launch we got lots of feedback about the site and we quickly realised that instead of race result website, there was a greater need for sailboat GPS tracking services. Sailing competitions are difficult to follow and regatta organisers are constantly faced with questions of how to make the sport more accessible for the spectators.

Instead of rushing into developing a new site, we started a co-operation with a finnish company called GPS-seuranta to provide GPS tracking services to the sailing community. In summer of 2008, we did real-time GPS tracking for a local archipelago race called Emäsalon Lenkki. Feedback from the organisers and from the participants was very positive. We were also delighted to see that we had hundreds of online spectators for the race. Eventhough there was minimal marketing for the event. In summer of 2009, we did similar GPS tracking service for the Melges 24 Nordic Championships. Melges 24 is a top level internation sailboat class with lots of interest all over the world. Again feedback on our service positive. What suprised us was the online tracking had online spectators in total from 28 different countries and total spectator count was count in thousands visits. These experiences made us to think that GPS tracking service is rather untapped resource in terms of adopting it to sports marketing purposes.

With SeeMyTrack, we wanted to create a website to let users to upload and share their own GPS tracks. The key lesson we have got over the years is that what ever the website, it needs to have a single focus and more importantly it needs to be dead simple to use.

Our goal is that SeeMyTrack provides a tool that enables anyone utilising GPS tracking to whatever sport, event, or activity to attract spectators in great numbers. After all, GPS tracking provides a unparalled birds-eye view to any event.

Hopefully you will enjoy using the SeeMyTrack and please also give us feedback whether we are going to the right direction. Launch of the SeeMyTrack also represents end to the Sailing Register, we will maintain domain and some past results for future reference for some time. You will find the archived files in the footer navigation.

As usual, we will continuously upgrade the service to the best of our abilities. New features and updates will be published in this blog, so please bookmark us.

Cheers,

Vesa