GPSed was SHAPE Services’ way to turn a trip into a saved track. A journey could become a line on a map with photographs attached to the places visited, rather than a folder of pictures whose locations were easy to forget. This July 2010 entry concerns that historical tracking service and its iPhone application.
The service behind the app
The SHAPE Support Team’s original announcement describes recording journeys, keeping tracks online and associating photos with locations. That 2007 announcement concerned BlackBerry software. It establishes the service’s purpose and developer, but its device-specific instructions should not be transferred to the iPhone.
Recording and sharing were separate decisions
In its 2009 hands-on review of the iPhone app, iCulture described recording a route, viewing it on a map and publishing it to the GPSed website. The reviewer also described a private-route option and adding photographs to tracks. These are observations of a particular historical version, not a verification of the service today.
That distinction between recording and publishing is the most useful part of the workflow. A personal travel log does not automatically need a live audience. Before sharing any route, consider whether its start and end points reveal a home, workplace or another place you would rather keep private.
Making a trip record useful
Give each saved journey a clear name and keep its date with the photos. When evaluating a current replacement, check whether you can export your own records, how it behaves with the screen locked and whether the destination service still operates. These are editorial selection criteria, not claims about unsupported GPSed features.
Current availability and service operation were not verified for this restoration. The original July 29, 2010 URL remains the historical reference point; a route logger should not be mistaken for a promise of turn-by-turn navigation or an emergency location service.