AeroPod, PowerPod and Newton

HI, can you please explain the purpose of the GPS tracker beyond it looking great? Is there some sort of guide to using it somewhere for ride diagnostics? I am especially interested to know how I can link the empirical values of power and cadence to the colours and the vertical gain on the snail tra...

So far I have failed to find information on how to use the tracker as a training tool. Its certainly a clever way to use Google Earth but is it more than a pretty picture? How do I interpret the pictures to improve performance? How do the colours and vertical gain relate to a actual values?