Sports
Live race and event tracking allows you to view and understand the progress of large scale races and events from your living room, from alongside the track or from any other location. SMARTposition has a long history in live race and event tracking, dating back to the Batavierenrace of 2003.
Apart from tracking, SMARTposition is involved in many sports related projects. These projects are often executed together with well-known organisations like NOC*NSF (Dutch Olympic Committee) and Suunto. We specialize in:
- live tracking of events,
- analysis of data collected during events.
Live race tracking
Our live tracking system is used by organizations to make their event more interesting to watch, and to engage visitors and sponsors in the event. To view a live event as it unfolds, we offer two options. The first is a web application, while the second is an application that must be installed on your computer.
Google Maps

A Google Maps application that offers functionality for the selection, tracking and viewing of participants.
- User-friendly webpage.
- Location and additional information in a clear listing.
3D Google Earth

Google Earth allows you to view the event in 3D, although not all features from the Google Maps application are present.
- Uses Google Earth.
- Spectacular 3D helicopter view, fly around the track and choose your own perspective.
Professional rental

We offer our live GPS tracking system to organizations that want their (sports)event to be special: it’s just that extra bit that makes the event as engaging as possible to visitors and sponsors. The professional rental package is suitable for both large and small organizations, and opens up interesting sponsorship possibilities.
SMARTposition offers a complete package, including advice and support before and during the event. Additionally, we can process and analyze gathered data after the event. Read more about the Professional Rental, or check out some of the events we tracked previously. Please contact us for a quote for your event.
Analysis
During an event, enormous quantities of data are collected in a number of ways on individual athletes, groups of athletes and external circumstances.

SMARTposition has ample experience in the matching, processing, analysis and visualization of these data sources. To an athlete, this offers the opportunity to relive his own race, and to compare and analyze his achievements. It is for example possible to organize a virtual race between himself, the winner and friends.
Analysis can use and combine a number of data sources, including:
- Heartrate monitors; see Project GeoBeat.
- Time registration; see My Marathon Analysis.
- GPS data; see Online tracking service.
Items in Sports:
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Four Days Marches Nijmegen 2008
92th International Four Days Marches Nijmegen from 15 – 18 July 2008.
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Elfsteden Roeimarathon 2008
In this year’s “Elfsteden Roeimarathon”, 62 teams rowed 200 kilometer along 11 Frisian cities
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Fortis CPC loop 2008
SMARTposition will bring you the front runners of the CPC 1/2 marathon 2008 on saturday 15 march!
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Superprestige Gieten 2007
32e Internationale Super Prestige CycloCross te Gieten.
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Turfrace 2007
Contest with historical sailing freight ships
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Tri-ambla Offroad Triathlon Ameland 2007
Offroad Triathlon Ameland 2007.
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RandmeerRace 2007
Boat race on the Randmeer