Follow the Tour de France with Ubilabs’ Live Geodata Mashup
Bike racing fans always totally freak out in July — and with good reason. The biggest, toughest, gnarliest and most prestigious race in pro cycling in ON for three solid weeks.
Last week, we showed you where to download a KML file for Google Earth to preview all 22 stages of the Tour de France. But now we’ve learned you can follow the race live using Tour Tracker, a live mashup created by German geodata company Ubilabs. The company has teamed up with SRM, makers of the fancy cycling power meters used by the pros, to deliver live info on the location, speed, heart rate and pedal cadence of participating riders from team T-Mobile. All of the data is plotted on a Google Map and updated frequently.
Also, were you aware you could get Tour updates via Twitter? We weren’t.
Yet another way to torture yourself with the fact you aren’t watching the race on television. You’ll probably miss Bob Roll’s kinetic hand motions and Phil Liggett’s poetic musings, but it’s better than being left in the dark.
