My Tracks is an amazing Android app from Google using which you can record your path, speed, distance, and elevation while you walk, run, bike, or do anything else outdoors. While searching my way to a new place, I wondered if there was an app which could track my footsteps which I could use in the future anytime I wanted to visit the same place and that’s when I discovered My Tracks. Google Maps was an option, but then remembering the names of the different streets and landmarks wasn’t an easy task for me and often I relied on the locals for pointing me to the right direction. For more information see the related page at the foot of then page.When I was new in Leicester, UK (I recently moved for my higher studies), I had trouble remembering different routes for university, railway station, city center etc. GPX is an open format supported by many different web sites and applications.

Tracks can be exported to GPX files from within the app or via the website. Sharing tracks with other people and applications using GPX files Publish the route to our route database where other users can find, download and follow. Preview the track at my. then use the menu button and 'create route from this track'. It is easy to convert a track to a route. Share tracks by turning the track into a published route If the track is private you will be asked if you wish to make it public. Profile tab (in green bar), Tracks, tap the track, tap the share icon in the top rigth. Go to your My.ViewRanger account, select Routes > My tracks > Edit (next to your chosen track) > un-tick / tick the Public box. To change the privacy of all old track use the menu item Routes and track, My tracks and the Edit all button at the top. Global track privacy setting (public or private) can be set in the my. web site by using My Account, My Profile, Track preferences and press save. If you want other users to see your tracks they must be set to public. Track privacy optionsĪ track can be set to public or private.

To upload all tracks in the app tap the Menu tab (in green bar), Sync content. To upload and individual track in the app tap the Profile tab (in green bar), Tracks, tap the track, tap 3 dots at the top and tap upload track. Before a track can be shared it must be uploaded to our website my. We don't support sharing to a closed group. A track can only be shared if it is public.

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