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As soon as we heard My Tracks’ launch last week we decided we had to test it with our HTC G1 Android phone. So I took my bike and went for a ride. I’ve got a Garmin GPS so I’m an intermediate user of this kind of devices.

My Tracks is really simple to use, you just press a button and it starts recording a new track. When you finish, you can send it to your account in Google Maps and Google Docs. You can also share the KML or GPX or send it to an email. With my Garmin GPS device is not as easy as with the G1. My Tracks shows the typical info for a track like average speed or distance and a really cool altimeter graphic.

Here you have an image of my Saturday bike-ride:

But everything is not so wonderful. By the time I got home, two hours and a half later, the G1 was close to run out of battery, which is a really bad news for a phone. I’ve mentioned you can see some cool info about your track and a nice altimeter graphic, but all these get lost when you send your information to Google. The track info is in Google Docs and the track itself in Google Maps, but the altimeter graphic is not available. It would be nice having all the info the same place.

Another cool option could be having the chance of sending the track from the phone to Tagzania