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1. 

   Chief
   Coastal Vagabond

   OK, the mapper is going active and it is time to get your SPOTs up and running.

   First, captain and crew, if any, should login at the old site (http://www.WaterTribe.com). Then go to the Rogues Gallery and update your mug shots. These will be used as icons in the map and when you or your shore contact posts to the Racer Logs.

   Second, verify that your SPOT is setup and working correctly. Does your shared page show your OK messages and tracks. Note that we want your shared page and it is not necessarily the link that was emailed to you. If the link to your shared page does not have something that looks like this 

            ?glId=0KyOXJ5Rljgldfgoi9q1SU3G1CRscrtCREj 

   at the end, it won't work. Note the "?glid=". The rest will be different.

   Third, go to your Event in the old site and select the "SPOT Link Setup" tab. Paste the link to your shared page in the text box and click "Submit Link".

   Now go to the mapper and verify that your last known position shows up. Play with the mapper to see how it works. Note that there are time delays built into the system that are beyond my control. It could take an hour or more for your positions to show up. Also, sometimes I have to shut down tracking for a bit because we are only in practice mode. I will try to announce these shut downs.

   Right now, . . . tracking is UP!

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   TwinSpirit
   Member

   Done !!!!

   Is there anyone else so excited this is all they can think about? My gear is checked and ready. My kayak has its new rudder. I have checked it and double checked it. I am working out 3 times a week at the gym ,plus as much paddling as I can get in. Oil is changed, trailer is checked . All I need to do is get food for the trip .

   Time To Rock On "TTRO"

   Twinspirit

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   IronBob
   Member

   Done !!!! 

   TheJuice and I:

   fired up, yes. gear organized and checked, yes. training, yes.   

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   Scareman
   Member

   Prego! Its in there!

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   Danito
   Member

   Done!

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   teak
   Member

     Mine is working now.  why does my ok msg not have a speed information on it and others do?

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Santiago
   Member

   

   I'm on the map!

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   Sirtackalot
   Member

   Done, but no sppeds on todays training run ( maybe thats good, was not very fast)

   Posted 1 year ago #
9. 

   teak
   Member

    it shows you going 4.49kts at 10:49 am when you pressed ok

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    Calculating speed information based on SPOT input works better when you are in tracking mode. OK messages have their use but there are time delays that can throw speed calculations off. Use the time information as estimates only.

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    Sirtackalot
    Member

    But I was it tracking mode.......

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    teak
    Member

      yes you were, but for some reason the track icons that the lines are connecting did not show up.

    in the NCC those Icons were there during race ,but after the race they dropped off.

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 

    LeatherLungs
    Member

    teak, what did you do to get distance, duration and speed to display on your OK message?

    Thanks

    Posted 1 year ago #
14. 

    LeatherLungs
    Member

    LeatherLungs wrote:

    teak, what did you do to get distance, duration and speed to display on your OK message?

    Thanks

    Never mind, teak. Tracking mode included all of the above.

    Thanks anyway!

    LL

    Posted 1 year ago #
15. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    You guys have to play with the selections on the tracking page. It defaults to only showing the last known position. This is what most people want to know and it reduces the load when millions of people are viewing the mapper. (Yes, we do get millions of viewers during a challenge).

    If you want to see more detail you need to focus your selections. Choose a class and you can get more detail. Choose a specific challenger and you can get all the detail we have.

    Remember that after making the selections you have to hit the Regenerate button. We don't automatically regenerate because we are trying to reduce the load on the system.

    Posted 1 year ago #
16. 

    Scareman
    Member

    Its working!  I finally got back to selecting me, Scareman, with "Show Tracks and All Waypoints."

    A few of my tracking spots this afternoon did not show up.  I was paddling without GPS just working on my stroke and cadence.  I was pleased to see SPOT showing me between 4 and 5 knots for the most part.

    Posted 1 year ago #
17. 

    Danito
    Member

    I tried changing my rogues gallery picture and something is not right. The old picture is still there but when you click on it the new picture showes up pixelated???? any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Danny

    Posted 1 year ago #
18. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    I will look into it. Is anyone else having issues?

    Contact me by email on this. Send me the actual picture you were uploading. Thanks.

    Posted 1 year ago #
19. 

    mistermoon
    Member

    I changed mine about a week ago. I found in order to get new picture to show up on the main gallery page, you have to clear your browser cache for that page. The easiest way to do this is ctrl-f5 in most browsers. This forces a total refresh of all the images instead of using locally cached copies. I dunno about the pixelated thing. Your gallery picture and the bigger version are the same here, btw.

    Posted 1 year ago #
20. 

    Danito
    Member

    mistermoon- Thanks for the tip it worked.

    Chief- I can see the pic now on gallery and mapper. If you double click on the pic still gets pixelated. no biggie. do you still want the pic by email?

    Danny

    Posted 1 year ago #
21. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    Danito:

    Yes, I would like to see it. We do change the size of the picture so if yours was small it could be distorted when we make it larger. Most of the time the pictures are too big and all three sizes that we make are reduced which doesn't distort as much (typically).

    Posted 1 year ago #
22. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    Come on guys! Let's get those SPOTs into the database.

    Renters heads up. Why the heck are you renting something that could save your life? Also, consider the fact that once you do a WaterTribe Challenge you are hooked. You can't give it up even though some have and are trying. They will be back! You will too. Just buy it so you can learn to use it properly and you will be ready for the NCC2012 and the EC2013 and . . .

    Posted 1 year ago #
23. 

    SandyBottom
    Member

    Just broke down and bought a SPOT2, will get it entered as soon as it's delivered.

    Dawn

    Posted 1 year ago #
24. 

    Macatawa
    Member

    Chief is sure right about getting hooked... I went to watch the start in 2008... did the UM in 2010... EC attempt in 2011, NCC finish in 2011, and will be finishing EC 2012...

    

    Oh... and I should be getting my new SPOT 2 next week, so I'll be updating my info as well.

    Posted 1 year ago #
25. 

    MicroTom
    Key Master

    Danito wrote:

    mistermoon- Thanks for the tip it worked.

    Chief- I can see the pic now on gallery and mapper. If you double click on the pic still gets pixelated. no biggie. do you still want the pic by email?

    Danny

     

    Chief & WaterTribers,

    I have seen this too. You can not upload large format pictures without them getting resized and end up blurry. You can solve the problem by uploading a reasonable sized picture like 800x600.

    If you need help resizing photos google is your friend. Lots of different ways to do it. Here is one.

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resize-a-picture-using-Paint

    I personally use Paint.net which is also free.

    http://www.getpaint.net/

    Posted 1 year ago #
26. 

    DragonSlayer
    Member

    mine's up with tracking

    Posted 1 year ago #
27. 

    mistermoon
    Member

    I thought there was something wrong with my Spot setup *until* I realized the tracker defaults to the EC. Those of us in the UM or the UF need to select that event and regenerate.

    Posted 1 year ago #
28. 

    Chief
    Coastal Vagabond

    Actually the UF guys show up in the EC tracker as well as the UF tracker because they are considered to be in the EC for the first stage. The UM guys only show up in the UM tracker.

    We still have lots of empty SPOT registrations. They weekend is a great time to get things resolved.

    Posted 1 year ago #
29. 

    HairyKerry
    Member

    how do i get my picture into the gallery so i can give you the spot data.  feel free to enter any icon you want and I will try to progress from there. HairyKerry 

    Posted 1 year ago #
30. 

    danceswithwaves
    Member

    Done!  Up and running.  27.79185   -82.68152    West Marine   Royd

    Posted 1 year ago #

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