So if you're into things like Hare Scrambles then you'd probably find a system that lets you track things via GPS data pretty handy. If each participant had a little GPS device that records their location during the race then you could assemble all that data later (live would be ideal, but this is a good start) and create an interactive map of the data.

Now a Flash developer and a ColdFusion developer could probably pull that off and the result would be accessible to over 95% of the people using the web, right? It's been done several times before (I'm too lazy to look for the link to that subaru race site.. if you've got it or other examples comment please..) in Flash.

So when my bro sent a link to motionbased.com and said to check it out.. I assumed it'd be another Flash based "replay a bunch of GPS data over a map" thing.. with the cool twist that they allow you (anybody) to create one of these maps and add the GPS data. It also gives you data about speed, elevation, heart rate, etc.. Saweet. But here's the kicker that I found.. they used SVG. Say again? What? Why? What does it offer for this application that the Flash Player doesn't? They don't say.. they just ask people to install the Adobe SVG Player.