Sportsim Weblog

Follow Birkebeinerrittet live on raceday

On Saturday Aug. 30th we will present Birkebeinerrittet live on internet for everybody to view. Birkebeinerrittet (Norway) is the biggest MTB-event in the world. On race day you can on the internet, follow your racer moving through the course. You see the course and the racer on a Googel Map. You get expected finish time plus expected time for next split passing.

Great fun for friends and family to view!

The service is based on split times, course GPS track and the individual performance of each racer.

You find the link here.

Are you participating? Tell your friends and family!

Launch of Mobile Locater

After months with testing Sportsim launches the first beta version of the Mobile Locater. The idea behind the Mobile Locater is to transform your cell phone into an on-line tracking device.  Friends and family can then follow your map projected movements on a web page. More information will follow...

2nd successful test of live Google Maps service

On the XC-skiing race Birkebeinerrennet 2008 March 15th with about 10.000 finishers Sportsim conducted a successful live test during the race.  Visitors to the live test site could follow racers during their performance.  The new service has earlier been developed to play with the Google Earth client, but was now tied in with Google Maps.  Google Maps makes the service more usable as visitors only use their browser.

With this new service people can take out the guess about how racers are performing and where they are located in the course.  This is something friends and family will appreciate.

Test of Mobile Locater in New York

Sportsim is present in a very visual way at The ING New York City Marathon Nov. 4, 2007.
This time we have an open solution test and a teaser of an upcoming service where you can watch Erik from Sportsim all the way from start to finish.
The solution is LIVE on Google Maps, where positions are submitted from a regular GPS enabled mobile phone located in Erik's pocket.

For the 5th time, Sportsim supports the Course Simulation where racers can re-live and compare their endeavors as moving dots on map. Sportsim is honored to be part of this years race and very pleased that our services appear popular among the participants.

New simulation solution at record race in Sweden

Sportsim delivered a complete course simulation solution with both front (simulation software) and back-end (servers) solution in cooperation with a leading news paper in Sweden, GT Expressen.

The participation in this years edition of Göteborgsvarvet was a record high with 31,160 runners.  After the race could racers re-cap their endeavors with the course simulation delivered from Sportsim through the GT Expressen web site. This is a popular event and the simulation received high traffic peeks.  The solution delivered through the web site was part of a free content supported by the GT Expressen and income from banner ads.
Sportsim believes this solution could also be of interest to other content providers in cooperation with a local event.

PR: Sportsim PC software goes Open Source

Sportsim has since 2003 been one of the software pioneers in developing solutions for people with GPS devices. The Sportsim software has been downloaded and installed many thousands of times and has a large user group.  After a modification it now goes Open Source on Sourceforge.net under a new name: Comparetracks.

We at Sportsim are very happy to open source this software as it has been a theme here since we started the development back in 2003.  Now it is not only totally free as in "beer" to use, but if you're a developer you can introduce your own solutions!
We encourage especially all of the old users to upgrade, as some of the older services will not work and you miss out on the new ones.
Upgrade at Comparetraks own site. 

Are you a passionate developer?

Sportsim is in a process of developing new wireless services for GPS.

Team Sportsim is during this summer in search for passionate people with relevant software development experience.

- does something below appear familiar?

• Ajax supported web applications?
• Server side systems designed for high traffic load?
• Mobile midlets?
• Windows Mobile 5 applications?

The Benefits:
Sportsim is flexible on working location, and if you are close or in the Oslo area? you can access our new powerhouse downtown Oslo with several office spots.

Salary:
Yes, we pay, but if you're looking for high salaries? - then Sportsim will not be the company for you.

- passion for cool wireless services and being outdoor active are key elements.

This is the perfect time to take part in our growth, don't be a stranger ranger!

contact us on our general e-mail or call us.

Cheers,

Gjermund

Team Sportsim

GPS in Orienteering

This weekend will the orienteering club in Kongsberg, Norway, organize Pinseløpet 2006, an orienteering event with approx 900 participants.  Some of the most avid beta testers of Sportsim is part of the club and are really pioneers when it comes to GPS and orienteering.  Comparing of GPS tracks makes this sport even more spectacular to perform and view.

Sportsim has in it's new software development taken care of some special requirements for the orienteering sport as we view this sport interesting in the general development. Orienteering challenges important areas for making custom maps available and design complicated event structures with many courses and classes.

This weekend has the club decided to introduce the new Sportsim beta to the GPS participants, and we do expect some bug feedback...

New live tracking system for yacht races

Frydenbo Doublehanded is a 4-day regatta that starts today.

50 sailing boats are lived tracked with a new developed system at the west coast of Norway. This is a new way for spectators to follow the yachts live. Go to the live link, but also view how they split up on the left screen shot as a result of different sailing strategies.

Guard Systems ASA has brought in Sportsim consultants and together developed a new and cool live tracking system targeted at regattas. The race can be followed through a simple web interface that applies Google Maps API.

Spectators can also follow a link to Google Earth for the 3D fly-through experience.

Yes, we know there have been other Google Maps mashups for yacht races (e.g. Volvo Ocean Race), but never this organized for a local regatta!

As an extra value for the racers can .gpx track files be downloaded from the web and imported in Sportsim for post-race analysis.

Guard Systems ASA has developed their own GPS enabled trackers that apply the local wireless network for server communication. The company is a leading Norwegian company on asset tracking.

Good luck with the launch guys!

cheers,
Team Sportsim

Update on Friday, June 2nd:
This race is now finished, but there will be an even larger live yacht tracking (approx. 200 boats, The Watski Skagerrak TwoStar 2006) in a couple of weeks.

Find a BUG - Win a GPS

Are you a bug hunter? Do you feel lucky?

Find it out! we encourage you to test the new beta, and give us feedback on bugs so you can join the Garmin Forerunner 305 raffle.

Give feedback and find more information here

Download the beta here