The Tour Tracker that was was used for US pro cycling races Tour of California and Tour of Missouri is taking on the world. The 2009 Giro d’Italia is being broadcast live online via the same Adobe Flex app. Allan Padgett was once again involved in launching this app. This time it’s called the “Race [...]
I’ve written a couple of time about the amazing Tour Tracker. This is an app that offers cycling fans real-time access to follow a race via their computer. the app was written by a cycling addict at Adobe as a proof of concept for their Flex platform. Until now, most of what I’ve been able [...]
This week Californians see the best of professional cycling in their own backyard. The Tour of California will take racers from the Bay Area to So-Cal over a 650 mile route. Yesterday I watched the race kick off both in person at the prologue and online via the official Tour Tracker. Prologue I picked up [...]
I noticed today that the Tour of Missouri bike race is using the same Tour Tracker app that was developed for this year’s Tour of California. The app (probably built by Adobe) uses flash to mashup a map of each stage with GPS data, a chat board, the course profile, live video and text-based play-by-play. [...]