• You can now download your logs in GPX format (can't believe that wasn't in there already), which means you can take advantage of GPSLog Lab's advanced editing and filtering capabilities and then export the cleaned up data for use in other sites or loading maps back onto your device.

• The edit processed activity page has been rearranged, with the "activity" column moved to left of the table to make editing actions more obvious.

  Also, the mark as done button is now more useful since predictions are doing tagging/route assignment automatically, so has been moved to the top of the page.

  

• The side panel of activity detail page has been cleaned up and made easier to understand, hopefully it's clearer now how to get to the route page and how to select different routes.
  

• The activity detail page now uses the same route/tag selection popups as the edit log file activity page, as does the manual entry detail page. These include better filtering and suggestions than the old versions.
  
  
  
  

• Added estimated distribution curves to place session durations, place and tag days between logs graphs. These are really just a guess to make it look pretty, and assume that it's a Gaussian or Poisson distribution w hich is doubtful!
  
  
  
  
• Added first/last activity dates to tag summary table

• Added speed/pace distribution box whisker plots to tag summary, route detail splits tab, and activity detail splits table.
  
• Added box whisker of current battery cycle vs history to home page device list, this will give you a much clearer idea of how much time is remaining than a simple average.
  
• The checkpoint edit page now has a link to load data from logs using the route so the checkpoint can be placed accurately.
  
• I've made some changes to the upload processing that will hopefully make it better at handling large input files. As always though, the memory available on the server is limited, so the site will always struggle if you're uploading files with many days worth of data in them. For best results, I suggest using GPSBabel to chop your file into smaller pieces before uploading it.

A few little enhancements to GPSLog Labs that have been made lately:

Updates to GPSLog Labs have been trickling in slowly over the last few months, so it's about time I mentioned a few of them on the blog:

• Maps now have a "View full-screen" link at the bottom left:
  
  
  This will expand the map so it fills the browser window:
  

• Buddy icons (displayed on your shared log detail pages) will now use the Gravatar for the email address you've set in your Account Settings. You can still upload an icon if you'd prefer not to use Gravatars.
  

  
  

• Fancy, searchable dropdown lists (courtesy of the Chosen library):

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  

• "Remove automatic edits" command: Auto-chopping logs is one of GPSLog Labs' most powerful features, but sometimes you just want the entire log file. This command lets you remove all the cuts & places quickly and easily, so now you can have the best of both worlds.
  

• Deleting tasks from a goal can now be done in bulk. This makes it much easier to customise a training program or edit tasks you've cloned from another goal.
  

• The Distance Finish Time Predictions graph now shows the values at the mouse position.

• The Cumulative Stop Time vs Distance graph shows the total stopped time when zooming to a selection.

• Added sorting to the Goal task possible route selection table and fixed a few bugs with highlighting routes with appropriate distances.

A few little changes to note while I'm busy working on something big and pretty cool:

• The minimum split time between checkpoints on a route has been changed from 5 minutes to 1 minute, so you can now record splits as short as laps around an oval, assuming you're not too fast that is.

• Distances and times are now displayed with full precision in the splits detail table.

• The mobile page now has a "Recent Uploads" list, so you can check them quickly when uploading from a phone.

• Route "average" distances are now only shown if the logs are similar in length, otherwise the range of distances is displayed.

• I've added columns showing the last logged date and scheduled count for routes when selecting them for goal tasks.

• The next scheduled task for a goal is displayed in the goals table and on the summary page for quick reference.

• The goal tasks graph now has a link to zoom it in to a view of this week.

I've just added a really useful feature to GPSLog Labs: The "Comparisons" tab for an activity page now actually shows some useful comparisons in a "dashboard" format.

The above screenshot shows the speeds for that particular run using solid dots on the box plot, and indicates it was the fastest for that route when stops are removed, but that there was a long stop somewhere between the 8 and 10 km splits that made it the slowest over those distances (the smallest value is on the left of the graphs, so rightmost is best for speed and leftmost is best for pace.)

Comparing it to all the activity tagged with Run, not just along that particular route shows it was in the top 25% (after taking out the stop):

Some other recent updates to the site:

• Pages with many tabs will have some of the tabs hidden to save space. Click the "more >>" button to show the rest.
  
  

• The unknown routes page now lets you filter by tag.

• When setting up a task for a goal, you can now filter the possible routes by place.  This means that you can quickly find a route of the desired distance to complete the task and aren't overwhelmed by routes from places you don't need.

• There are a couple of QR Codes on the site now to help get the urls into your mobile device.  Scan the following QR code to go to the mobile version of GPSLog Labs, for example.
  
  
  There is also a QR code for the unique upload email address for your device on it's detail page.

• When adding tasks from a training program to a goal, or creating a new goal from a training program, you can now see a preview graph of the tasks involved:
  
• The tag detail page has a new Splits Graph tab that shows a graph of all the activity speeds/times at standard split distances, together with lines indicating the distribution (10th,50th,90th percentiles).
  
• The standard split distances now extend from 50km to 300km (50mi to 200mi) to make them more useful to cyclists and longer distance activities.

As always, please send feedback and suggestions to feedback forum.

Some of these have been live on the GPSLog Labs for a while now, I just haven't had a chance to blog about them.

• A preview map and details are now available on the week calendar activity page, to make it work the same way as the home page.

• The activity table now shows weekly totals by tag and place.
  

• Activity paths are grayed out rather than removed from the preview map, meaning you can compare multiple paths on the map simultaneously.
  

• The calendar summary tables now have an option to toggle between displaying distance or duration totals for each tag.

  
  

  
  
  
  

• The device detail page now has a button that will send you an email containing the upload email address making it easy to add it to your address book.
  

• The tag popup form has a new option to apply the selected tags to all the non-junk segments of file. This only applies if the log file has been split into two or more segments.
  

• The goal detail summary tab now has indicators of the daily activity for the week and month.
  
  
  There's one bar per day, green are the latest on the right, orange the oldest on the left. Hover over them for some details.

• You can now search for activity by keywords entered into the notes.  This is a little obscure still, type your query into the search box on the top right of any page and a button will appear to "Search activity notes for 'keyword'". Click it an you'll see a list of all matching activity.

  
  

  
  
  
  

• The "Activity log as CSV" download now contains heart rate data if it was uploaded in a separate file, making it possible to do your own spreadsheet for analysis if you want.

• The splits detail table now has a tags column and activity that has been excluded from the stats are indicated in the table, map, graphs.

• The split detail pages now also have filtering of splits by forward/reverse direction and by included/excluded status.

• The maximum supported upload size has been increased to 20mb.

Thanks for all the great feedback and suggestions on the GPSLog Labs Feedback page, please keep it coming.

• The "This week's activity" table on the home page of GPSLog Labs now allows you to scroll back and forward through your uploaded activity using "« Previous | This week | Next »" links. The old "Earlier activity" link has been removed as it's no longer needed.

• The Trends report has been optimized and now runs much faster.

• When editing an automatically created place, a list of suggested "Nearby places" is displayed to make it easier to correct logs where your logger didn't lock on at a place:
  

• When editing an unmatched place, nearby places are now shown as markers on the map too. Clicking them will select the place from the drop-down list.

• The activity detail page heading has been reformatted to make it easier to read:
  

• The libraries of icons you can select from for your tags and places have been expanded and refined. They should be better looking and more useful now. Edit your tags or places to change them to one of the new icons:

  Tag icons:
  

  

  Place icons:
    

  

  You can still upload your own icons if you want to, for best results they should be 16x16 pixels, in GIF or PNG format with transparent backgrounds.

• You can now add goals based on the built in training programs. Click the Add Goal from Training Program link on the Goals page, select the program, put in your goal finish date (race/event day), select the tag you'll use to track your training logs and you're ready to go.
   
  
• Two new training programs have been added too:

• Beginner Half Marathon Program
  A training schedule for beginning runners who want to start racing the half marathon race distance.
  
  
• Intermediate Marathon Program
  A training schedule for intermediate runners who want to improve performance in the marathon race distance.
  
  
• Adding tasks to goals has been made faster and easier too, and a bug was fixed that was preventing adding fractions of kilometers as the target distances (i.e. you could only enter whole numbers, not 6.5km for example.)

-- Tom

This can be very annoying as it will often create spikes in your speed that completely mess up any maximum speed or distance statistics for that log file.

For a while, GPSLog Labs has had "position" and "time" filters that let you manually remove these "splats" but it was tedious to get right, so now a simpler "splat filter" has been added that makes the process much less painful.

First, go to the activity you want to filter and click on the Filters link in the side panel:

Then click "Add a filter" and choose "Splat filter":

On the Splat filter page, you need to drag the marker so that it covers the "door" of the building. It doesn't have to cover all of the spikes of the splat, you just need to capture the last good point before you enter the building and the first good point when you get out and start getting a good signal again.

As you can see, the marker is only covering the actual building under the splat, not the whole splat.

The Splat filter will then discard all the points while you were inside the building and interpolate over the gap (which will give you a long period of very slow or 0 speed, restoring the stats of your log back to something sane):

The results are dramatically better, the distance and maximum speed are both now much more accurate and representative.  This log also included the Static Navigation filter as the AMOD AGL 3080 logger was quite bad for logging at walking speeds.

Enjoy!

• There's another new button on the edit Log File tab exposing a feature that was previously a little too well hidden, this time to select which segments should be marked as "junk":
  
  

  That brings up a popup where you can quickly choose which segments are junk (and therefore shouldn't be displayed in the rest of the site) and which have the activity you're interested in:

  

• The colour of the junk segments on that page has been changed subtly from red/orange to a more neutral gray too.

• The GPS Data Filters page has been completely overhauled too so it should hopefully be a bit easier to use and faster to add certain type of filters too.

  Click on the Filters side panel of an activity you want to filter:

  
  
  The GPS Data Filters page now has clearer menu options and a bigger preview maps and graphs to show the results of the filters you have applied:
  
  
  And the individual filter pages now have more space to show their options and view the maps and graphs:
  
• The Time filter now has a preview map to show you the segment that is being discarded.

• Most filters now have a "Copy to tag" menu option that will let you copy the filter and it's parameters to a tag.  This means that once you find a good combination of filters to clean up your activity, you can have them automatically applied to all data you upload from now on tagged with that tag.
  

You'll see a new button on the right hand side of the page where you can quickly leave feedback.

On the forum, you can see feature requests and bug reports other people have made and vote for them or add your comments.