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Turtle Sport: An Open-Source Software for Communicating with GPS Sport Watches Cover

Turtle Sport: An Open-Source Software for Communicating with GPS Sport Watches

Open Access
|Dec 2018

Abstract

The aim of this article is to introduce an open-source software—Turtle Sport—that is capable of automatically importing the GPS traces of several types of GPS sport watches (Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Timex, TomTom, etc.) or of importing a number of GPS files. The GPS data are also uploaded locally to the researcher’s computer workstation, and not to Cloud, which may raise important ethical issues. Turtle Sport also allows users to: manage a number of users; visualize the traces and statistics for the races; and export the traces to external files (GPX, KML). Developed in Java, Turtle Sport is a stand-alone, multiplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux) and multi-language (11 languages supported) application. The software is available under GNU LGPL 2.1 Licence on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/turtlesport/).

 

Funding statement: The publication of the paper was supported by the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Equity (950-230813).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.230 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: May 15, 2018
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Accepted on: Nov 19, 2018
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Published on: Dec 6, 2018
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 Philippe Apparicio, Denis Apparicio, Marie-Ève Mathieu, published by Ubiquity Press
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