Review: Sports-Log – GPS for sports and walking enthusiasts

Sports-Log offers an interesting an unusual use for GPS technology. There’s nothing special in the hardware – a fairly standard GPS receiver that can be used with any navigation products, but that also has a tracking function that records and saves waypoints at given intervals. These can be downloaded to a desktop application and you view where you have been on a map.

What makes Sports-Log a noteworthy product is its software. A Windows-based database application, it imports your navigation data with a single click and presents you with a range of reports enabling you to analyse what you have done. For cyclists, joggers, skiers, even golfers the possibilities for tracking your performance are vast. You can see improvements over a period of time, as well as identifying areas for improvement.

Best of all it integrates perfectly with Google Earth. Again with just a single click your data is imported into the app, where you can access all the beautiful animations and 3D views therein. See in perfect detail how you were hacking the ball out of the bushes on the 16th hole, or how you ran out of steam cycling up that steep hill.

Or you could just stick the receiver in your pocket during your trip to Paris and when you return you can see where you have been. With a geotagging function built into the desktop software your holiday snaps can also benefit from the technology.

In fact, Sports-Log is more than just a sports tool. There’s plenty here for any GPS enthusiast.

Web: www.sports-log.com
Price: £99.99
Verdict: 8

Review originally published in Smartphone & PDA Essentials magazine. Words by Andy Betts.

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