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Hitchhike > SMS Tracker

Last updated on 7th December 2010

All of our hitchhiking events use our bespoke SMS Tracker system. You can send a simple SMS message from anywhere in the world, at your standard message rate, to update your blog and challenge tracking map. By sending messages in a specified format, our inbound messaging function can recognise the place and country of message origin, to perform a “geocode” and “reverse geocode” - to determine and then double check the message location.

If the challenge calls for it, we'll keep track of your furthest distance from home, and rank this against the rest of the tracker updates. Messages received after this instance, i.e. the journey home, will be saved and displayed, but not update the challenge tracking map or affect their total distance travelled.

Event Administrators monitor the tracker throughout the course of the hitchhike event. Messages sent to the tracker in an incorrect format can be amended by admins.

The standard format for messages is Town, Country, Message. It is important to maintain this format. #end or #home hash-tags should be inserted into the third (message) segment of the SMS.

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