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Is there an app available that lets you send a txt or phonecall
to someone, and know where they are in the country? Maybe a
location on google maps or something?
This would be cool.
hmm
or illegal..
Latitude
If your sending a text why not just ask them?
Instead of using a text why not use Latitude on google maps?
OK - yr friends need this on their phone but there are loads of GPS tracking solutions available.
simokya said:
If your sending a text why not just ask them?
Instead of using a text why not use Latitude on google maps?
OK - yr friends need this on their phone but there are loads of GPS tracking solutions available.
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It works, but the negative thing about it is,... it sucks away all you're battary life,...
and what u said,... you're friends need it,... but this also won't work when 1 of you're friends dont has a phone with NO google maps
anyway,... It's fun to see though!
good luck!
Cheap Sat Nav
One solution is to have Navmii, it's sat nav software £45 ish but it has a built in function to send a text to obtain your friends location using Geofriend, there is a small flaw though, your friend also needs the software on thier mobile, however then sat nav will then place your friends location on the map and give you directions to meet them, quite cool.
They provide software for PDA, iphone and sybian devices not bad software compared with the cost of Tomtom 7
Works fine on my Touch HD
http://www.navmii.com/
I just moved from an iPhone 4 to a HTC Mozart and so far am loving everything about the phone bar a few little problems. The main one being Bing Maps doesnt do anything useful. Example being yesterday I was in the city and was going to post a few things for Xmas at the post office, on my iphone I would have loaded up google maps and typed in "Post Office" and it would have shown me all the post offices around me and I could then make my way there. Bing Maps on the other hand when I typed in the same thing takes me to a park in "IL" somewhere in the USA. SO i typed in "Post Offcies in Sydney" and this just brought up an error. The Bing Maps is useless and I tried to find a lot of things and it always finds something useless for me in the USA or shows an error.
Anyone outside the USA got this app to work successfully or even remotely relevant to where you are???
I'm with you, its just a bit ****. I used to have an Xperia x10 which had Google maps and my tracks, I often used it to navigate through forestry tracks in Wales but they aren't on Bing Maps at all!
Actually is Bing **** or is Google Maps just so good?
Works fine in the UK (with the exception of voice searches).
I listen to wp7 radio podcasts and they say they are working on better bing implementation in other countries, so they are aware that the problem exists.
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I just moved from an iPhone 4 to a HTC Mozart and so far am loving everything about the phone bar a few little problems. The main one being Bing Maps doesnt do anything useful. Example being yesterday I was in the city and was going to post a few things for Xmas at the post office, on my iphone I would have loaded up google maps and typed in "Post Office" and it would have shown me all the post offices around me and I could then make my way there. Bing Maps on the other hand when I typed in the same thing takes me to a park in "IL" somewhere in the USA. SO i typed in "Post Offcies in Sydney" and this just brought up an error. The Bing Maps is useless and I tried to find a lot of things and it always finds something useless for me in the USA or shows an error.
Anyone outside the USA got this app to work successfully or even remotely relevant to where you are???
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I agree with you on that, when i searched for post office in Bing maps, it got auspost but alot of other random results, as well as missed alot of the post offices here in sydney. I noticed the Google search app results are alot more accurate and shows address' under 'places'
If you don't have the 'local' results in Bing search yet, there is a way around it which will bring SOME local results.
Under Settings > region & language, make sure 'display language' and 'Browser & search language' is set to 'English (United States)' It will ask you to restart your phone. While not as accurate as Google search, it's a good thing to have as some results do show up. Microsoft really needs to stand by their saying that they're a 'global' company, rather than a US only company.
So last week I went to stay in a condo with some friends. They texted me the address and it conveniently created a link that took me right to Bing maps. I was a half-hour late because Bing Maps dropped me off THIRTEEN MILES AWAY from the actual address. This is fully the THIRD time that I've been late or completely missed an event because Bing maps couldn't get me to the right place. Worse, every time someone asks why I was late and I respond "my phone took me to the wrong place," they ask what I'm using. When I reluctantly admit that it is Bing, I always get something to the effect of, "oh, THAT'S why."
In the end, I used the gMaps app to get to the right place. The weirdest thing is that when I went to Bing Maps on a browser at the condo, it GOT THE ADDRESS RIGHT! It's only the Bing Maps on my phone that dropped me off far, far away.
Try it for yourself on your Windows phone "Maps" app, on Bing Maps on a browser, or on Google Maps:
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498
(I know "Silverthorne" is misspelled, but that's how it was in the text message, so I'm leaving it as-is for troubleshooting reasons.)
WHY?!?!?!?
Interesting. Maybe it's whatever certain APIs are exposed to the mobile Bing app? Clearly, the web version has some kind of auto correction the mobile version doesn't/can't access.
Btw, how come you didn't question why it was placing the marker on the green side of a mountain?
I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.
in my city some zip codes are wrong!
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Btw, how come you didn't question why it was placing the marker on the green side of a mountain?
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lol...my wife was navigating from her Focus. I never saw the thing. Even then, I probably would have believed it, as I've been up many crazy mountain roads in this state, and it wouldn't have surprised me at all if the condo had been 13 miles out of town on a mountainside.
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I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.
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Weird. Apparently ScottSUmmers gets the same result I do. What your screenshot shows is where I was SUPPOSED to be. I wish I could take a screenshot to show you what I'm seeing. Thanks for checking!
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I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.
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PS: Google maps would still be more accurate based on your screenshot, as the actual address was no more than halfway down that street, not all the way at the end.
I think the misspelling is the key. If I put the address in my phone exactly as shown (without the 'e') it is way wrong. But if I add the 'e', it goes to the right spot.
When I use the web version of Bing Maps, it tells me that the city is spelled incorrectly, and auto-corrects it. That seems to be the piece that is broken/missing on WP7.
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I think the misspelling is the key. If I put the address in my phone exactly as shown (without the 'e') it is way wrong. But if I add the 'e', it goes to the right spot.
When I use the web version of Bing Maps, it tells me that the city is spelled incorrectly, and auto-corrects it. That seems to be the piece that is broken/missing on WP7.
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That was also my experience. Strange, since there's not two similarly-named towns out there or anything. How one letter could confuse their system so much I have no idea. I'm waiting for an address for my wife so I can demonstrate one of the other two times Bing has steered me way wrong.
Maybe it's just my state, but if I can't trust Bing, then I can't use Bing.
weird, though. I left out the "e" as well on my phone, it still found it...
EDIT: I just realized this. I typed it without the "e" and it showed up as "Silverthorn" in the destination entry. But as soon as I hit enter to calculate the route, my phone would automatically change the town to "Silverthorne". I cannot at all search for "silverthorn"
13 miles is nothing, try 8668 miles. see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNQVTjw4vU
I get the same results every time.
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So last week I went to stay in a condo with some friends. They texted me the address and it conveniently created a link that took me right to Bing maps. I was a half-hour late because Bing Maps dropped me off THIRTEEN MILES AWAY from the actual address. This is fully the THIRD time that I've been late or completely missed an event because Bing maps couldn't get me to the right place. Worse, every time someone asks why I was late and I respond "my phone took me to the wrong place," they ask what I'm using. When I reluctantly admit that it is Bing, I always get something to the effect of, "oh, THAT'S why."
In the end, I used the gMaps app to get to the right place. The weirdest thing is that when I went to Bing Maps on a browser at the condo, it GOT THE ADDRESS RIGHT! It's only the Bing Maps on my phone that dropped me off far, far away.
Try it for yourself on your Windows phone "Maps" app, on Bing Maps on a browser, or on Google Maps:
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498
(I know "Silverthorne" is misspelled, but that's how it was in the text message, so I'm leaving it as-is for troubleshooting reasons.)
WHY?!?!?!?
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It is probably because Windows phone doesn't force autocorrect. (instead suggests unline the iphone for example and others) it underlined it as possibly wrong on mine with correct suggestion (when doing search in bing maps on phone) Bing maps on the pc just assumes you ment the correct one and takes u there.
I was driving to the airport one day and decided to use map on my HTC HD7. I don't know if its my phone company's fault or my phone.
1)The refresh rate on my phone was so slow i couldn't even see where im going on my phone
2)For some reason when I enabled always facing where my car is facing the Map app on Wp7 doesn't work at all
3)The voice which is suppose to help you doesn't work at all.
I gave up using the map app on my phone and switched to Outdoor navigation instead
Same here, some street numbers are inverted... almost missed a meeting...
I've had a long list of experiences where bing maps gave the wrong street, city, ghost locations, etc and I have come to the realization that I can't trust it... I use it for directions in the city (nyc), and you would think that businesses would be well mapped. Oh well... maybe ovi maps can step up to google maps :/
searching "fedex drop off location" took me to dairy queen last night. needless to say, the package was late, but, i got an oreo blizzard. so i'm torn with bing maps right now. yes, i missed my shipment, but, i got a blizzard...
it was like, "sorry i screwed you up, here's some ice cream to make you feel better... by the way, you got $2.99 i can borrow?"
Count yourself lucky if Bing Maps or Local Scout actually works in your country. They're *still* broken in most regions of the world.
Happens to me all the time. Even if I type it right into the map search.
That's why I always find it on google maps on a desktop first, then crosscheck it with the Bing result. I don't trust it. Probably never will.
Yeah typing the full address is usually important but I tend to leave out the city and state and just do 4010 Silverheels Dr 80498 reason being is there are sometimes cities or sub divisions near eachother that contain the same name and can have the same street name. This is why UPS/FEDEX/USPS don't give a hoot about your city name (that is really just there for you) they like to use zip or even better zip + 4.
Now it sounds strange but look up your friends address http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_0_results.jsp here at the USPS. It dosent exist!
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Ok so now this is funny. Go lookup "80498" in google maps. Now look it up in Bing. Now with yahoo.
They all place 80498 in roughly the same place.
You will notice that that center is over 25 miles away (via roads) to the city you were looking for. 80498 shares the same zip as Heeney, CO.
I would consider 80498 as a rural area and therefore the single zip code covers a very very big area. Bing's Default search radius is somewhere between 5-15 miles. There definately is a bug in how Bing Mobile resolves a typo (yeah if you typed it right you would have gotten there right away).
The way Tom Tom (for example) looks up address is in logical order:
State -> City -> Street -> Building Number.
GPS' have to do this so they give you context and a filtered view. Imagine if you started typing 4010 how many address would popup!
Anyways...just submit a bug report by clicking the address in the map clicking the "..."'s and then clicking suggest changes. They will change it for you.
Don't think that Bing is the only one that screws up however, I've seen Google, yahoo, mapquest (yeah remember them?), Waze, TomTom, and garmin all give me wrong directions.
I guess they must have fixed this, I got linked to this discussion from another thread, yet when I tried it on my HD7 (TMOUS 8107), it automatically corrected it for me from the bing maps search and showed me the same thing the web app does (although it didn't warn me like the web app that it was corrected). Just for giggles I emailed the address to myself to see if it was a link related thing and got the same correct result. I noticed how old the thread is but just wanted to say that it looks like it was fixed at some point (which is an assumption since I never got to see it broken). Perhaps the partnership with Nokia included address resolution logic changes?
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498
My list of Bing Maps frustrations:
- It doesn't map a route from one country to another, otherwise everything works well.
Wouldnt it be fab if Bing can actually route directions from your location to another, worldwide? Like with public transits included from and to.
Hy guys,
Tought I'd post this as help to those who need it (like I did..)
I'm using google now and liking the location and weather cards, I followed this simple explanation by H3g3m0n :
To set Home/Work on Android (It's kind of hidden):
Start Maps
Tap on your icon (The blue dot on the map, this should have your contact photo on it not just the blue arrow. You can pull it up by turning on the Latitude option.)
Tap on your name that appears above it
Tap location History
Tap the menu dots down the bottom right
The you get the Change home/work location options
this is a brief how-to on how to set home and work locations in google maps so that google now will know where i live and work and start giving me cards about that info.
But after I did that I learned that google now will automatically learn where I live and work and that sounded really cool and so I wanted to delete the information I specified in order to let google now figure it out for itself.. I couldnt find any way to delete that information.. until I logged into google maps from my desktop, and had been given the option to delete home and work locations. today is the first day I went to work with the JB and google now updates so I'm gonna let google now figure it out for the next couple of days and see what comes out GOTTA LOVE GOOGLE!
Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?
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Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?
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Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius
Erase job?
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.
dwreck420 said:
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.
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Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck
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Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius
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Google has always done a pretty good job of knowing where I am all the time and deciding where is work and where is home. Years ago my roommate and I would use Latitude to keep tabs on each other. Google Now kind of tapped into what google already knew. Having your wifi on helps Google determine your location, especially if you have wifi at work/home, but even if you don't.
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Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck
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lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.
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lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.
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Hope you'll put something else there soon..
i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?
nicholes said:
i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?
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Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.
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Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.
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Well it gives right position in my computer but when I see maps in my mobile it gives almost 1 kilometer far from my position what I save in computer. Is this some kind of bug?
EDIT: it saves what ever address is near that position and assume it as my home. and nearest address is
Manik Bagh Over Bridge, Nandanvan Colony
Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452014, India 385 m NE
and my home is almost 1km far from here
i dont know how to set my home location in google maps> please help me
Got a nice little MotoACTV? Love to workout with it? But can't figure out how to export your data from MotoACTV.com to, say Runkeeper.com?
Well, good news.
I've just published a new HealthGraph App to do just that.
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You can also find it through the Runkeeper Apps:
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Yes that's a strange site name. If I get enough subscribers I'll get a better domain, in the mean time it is what it is.
Once you are at the site, you have to connect to press the "Connect to Runkeeper" button and follow the Open Authentication process. None of your Runkeeper account information is posted to redsneaker.us. And my server doesn't store any data from your profile, it is all embedded in the encrypted session key in your browser cookie.
You will then see a table showing your most recent Runkeeper Activities (so you can make sure you're not posting duplicates).
Next, you will have to supply your MotoACTV login credentials. MotoACTV doesn't have a public API and doesn't have an Open Authentication process. However, your credentials are not stored on the site, simply included in the encrypted session information. The down side of this is you will have to supply them each time you connect.
Once you have successfully connected you will see a list of your MotoACTV workouts and next to each a button labeled 'Send to Runkeeper'. Just press the button, and in a few seconds your workout data will be posted to Runkeeper in a new Activity, including your GPS track and heartrate data.
Currently only "Running" workouts are supported, though you can just edit the activity in Runkeeper. I'll be adding support for other activities soon.
If you like it, please become Runkeeper Elite through the link on my site. Or you can donate to me, but I think you'd be happy with the additional value of being Runkeeper Elite.
For those who do become Elite through my site I will enable a daemon to monitor your MotoACTV workouts and automatically post a Runkeeper Activity when a new workout is posted. This will allow you to use the MotoACTV using stock software and a few minutes after the MotoACTV automatically posts your data to MotoACTV.com your data will also appear on Runkeeper as a new activity! Simple!
Please also understand this site is not in a polished state yet, I haven't made any effort to work on the CSS (stye), and didn't want to delay access to the technical bits while trying to make it flashy. At the end of the day, my goal is for you to not need to access my site anyway, just go directly to Runkeeper.
5 Sep 2012: Fixed a bug in the temp file handling, was causing some workouts to fail with "internal server error".
Sep 2016: My app and site have been permanently retired. Too much work and cost to keep it up purely as a service to humanity. Thanks for your interest!
+1 for Strava
Strava doesn't look that difficult. I've looked at their API and it's a pretty easy REST site. Unfortunately they don't do OAUTH, so you'd have to supply credentials, just like the MotoACTV. But I think I may use Strava as a test case for ensuring the middle layer in my code is site independent.
an output for runtastic.com would be also great!!!
Another vote for STRAVA
I've tried the App a few times now and it's excellent. It would be nice to import as "cycling" as well but it's no problem changing it on the runkeeper site after import. Thanks again for your work.
I hope you do an output to Strava next. It has one killer feature that beats runkeeper - "Segments". Give it a try and you'll see what I mean, it's highly addictive.
I have been manually exporting my Motoactv data into Strava for a while and it works very well but would love an App to do it for me.
Missing workouts?
First , congrats for your app! It works perfect from the first time!
Just a question: I only could upload runs from 8/8 until today. But I have recorded, exercises from 16/7 and aren't listed. Is there a way to request these runs , so I can upload to Runkeeper?
It loads one month of MotoACTV workouts. I meant to add navigation buttons to get to earlier ones, but didn't want to hold up release for it. Soon...
+1 good work.
sounds like a really cool idea keep getting internal server error, have tried at work and on my home machine but when i go to sync my motoactv account it just says internal server error 500, anyone else getting this message?
Hi, was there any further progress on the strava upload. It would be amazing. Thanks.
If it is possible to download workouts from the MOTOACTV-Portal it should be also possible to upload data???
This gave the possibility upload tracks and sync them with the MOTOACTV to follow the tracks.
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sounds like a really cool idea keep getting internal server error, have tried at work and on my home machine but when i go to sync my motoactv account it just says internal server error 500, anyone else getting this message?
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The error 500 comes from a resource not found, and it actually is generated due to an authentication issue with MotoACTV. Unfortunately since the offending authentication data is stored in your browser session cookie, it can't be cleared without removing the session cookie.
How to delete cookies depends on your browser, but it's usually somewhere inside the privacy settings. Delete all the cookies for leeloo.doesntexist.com and try reconnecting, but make sure you have the right username and password.
Hint: the username should be an email address. Yeah, I could add code to verify you're using a proper username... But I haven't had spare time to throw at the MotoACTV in a while.
Let me know if this takes care of the issue.
Just became Elite!
This is the answer to my dreams. Thanks!
I just registered for 1 year of Runkeeper Elite through the affiliate link on the site.
How do I set it up to auto - upload my Motoactv runs to Runkeeper? Do you have to enable that manually?
Great site one bug
I joined run keeper thru your site I like what your doing however all my activities are imported with 7773.70 miles I would love to run this but I'm struggling with 4 miles
dhavens said:
I joined run keeper thru your site I like what your doing however all my activities are imported with 7773.70 miles I would love to run this but I'm struggling with 4 miles
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Sometimes I have the same error.
Do you have the possibility to package the import process available from your website into a android application ?
Because If your website will be offline, the import from Motoactv to runkeeper don't be possible.
Thk for your job.
Server been having issues lately? All i get when I try to push not is 500 errors.
I hope it gets fixed. I absolutely love this app.
sqalg said:
Sometimes I have the same error.
Do you have the possibility to package the import process available from your website into a android application ?
Because If your website will be offline, the import from Motoactv to runkeeper don't be possible.
Thk for your job.
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I only have that problem if I don't have a GPS lock for the entire run. Make sure your GPS is solid and it'll work.
I just got a motoactv and want to know if this is still being supported and in active development. Thanks!
I'm not able to connect to the site anymore, either via the direct link or through the RunKeeper site. Is this project all finished, or can we hold out hope that it will be back up & running? Thanks.
spacehippie2k said:
I'm not able to connect to the site anymore, either via the direct link or through the RunKeeper site. Is this project all finished, or can we hold out hope that it will be back up & running? Thanks.
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Now, works again !