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    GPS tracking - user manual

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    Available in the full version .

    From version 4.0 you can also record your automotive/driving activities automatically.

    RECORDING TRACKS

    Tap on the MENU button here:

    or here:

    The “NEW TRACK” button in the menu shows you the options that track recording will start with and also provides a settings button to change these options:

    Tap on the “NEW TRACK” button to start a new track and then “START”.

    The following tracking controls and indicators are provided:

    #1 - Pause the track button

    #2 - Stop the track button

    #3 - Tracking indicator. Green square means that the GPS tracking journal is being recorded and recording is optimized (data is filtered so the track is smooth on the map, but some less important points may be filtered out).

    #4 - BCK - Background mode indicator. By default, when you start a new track, the app stays working in the background until you pause or stop the track recording. This way, when you run other apps, take a phone call, or lock the phone, the app still keeps recording the track until you do MENU > PAUSE TRACK or STOP TRACK. You can also use controls #1 and #2 for the same actions.

    When you stop the track, the app stops working in the background and the GPS tracking dash will return to showing a start button (#5):

    Plus you’ll see the pause indicator (#6) blinking. This way, between recording tracks, current counters are paused by default. Starting a new track recording will reset and un-pause them.

    You can also always stop the track recording via MENU > STOP TRACK.

    VIEWING SINGLE TRACK

    MENU > TRACKS will show you the list of tracks:

    “Last 100” is a filter button — it gives you the ability to filter tracks by start or end date or just show the last X tracks.

    Swipe from left to right to assign the track category if needed (Business, Personal, etc).

    Swipe from right to left to move the track to another trip or attach/pin it to the main map.

    Tap on a track row to see the detailed track view:

    Functions common to all track view types:

    • (#1) Settings button on top of the screen allows you to switch between different track views.
    • (#2) Action button on top allows you to share the track in many different ways. We encourage you to try sharing as a “track image” — we tried to create a “postcard” sharing experience for this. It should look lovely when sharing via email, Facebook, etc.
    • (#3) Grid button top-right allows you to either move the track to a different trip or pin it to the main map so you can retrace it.

    Trim track at the end.

    From version 4.0, button #3 also allows you to trim the track’s end at the point of the blue cursor. Use the bottom chart section to set the blue cursor to the required point and tap on button #3 > Trim. Useful when you forgot to pause or turn off recording and then have very long sections of non-driving data.

    Edit track name/note, start/end address.

    Tap on the orange button with the track name and note to open the track fields editor and edit track name, note, start and end address, if needed: Track fields editor

    Functions specific to a Map + Chart type of view:

    • Use the +/- button in the time span area to zoom in and out the area around the light blue point line.
    • Move the light blue point line to focus on any point in time; the light blue arrow on the map also moves to show you the corresponding location on the map.
    • Pan and drag on the chart black area to zoom in and out and focus on the part of the track you are interested in.
    • When the chart is zoomed, you can either tap on it to move the light blue point line to the place of your tap, or you can use the grey area at the chart bottom to control the light blue point line.

    More on track view types:

    What else can be done?

    Trim track at the end

    From version 4.0

    Can be useful when you forgot to pause or turn off recording.

    MENU > Tracks > Tap on the track row. Scroll your finger through the bottom chart section to set the blue cursor on the map to the required point (or time/distance) and tap on button #3 in the top toolbar:

    Pick “Trim at …” - this menu button will show at what time/distance the truncation will happen.

    REVIEWING ALL TRACKS UNDER THE TRIP

    When in the “Trips” list:

    Tap on the “list” button to see all the tracks in this trip:

    In this list of tracks that belong under the trip, you can also swipe right or left on the track to reveal track options such as assigning a category , moving to another trip, or attaching/pinning to the live map.

    You can show all tracks under this trip on the map at once by tapping on the “Show all” button.

    SHARING TRIPS

    To back up or share the whole trip data to continue with it on a different device.

    MENU > TRIPS and then there is a “list” button on the left of each trip row:

    In the screen that opens, use the bottom-right action button:

    “Save file” will offer to pick the sharing format (whole “Trip archive” or Google KMZ) and will offer to save to iCloud, Dropbox, etc. “Email file” only offers the email option.

    When saving a file, pick “Trip archive” and save it to iCloud or Dropbox. Then on any iPhone or iPad you can open this trip archive (with the .trk extension) in the Speedometer app. The trip with all its tracks will be imported as they were on the original iPhone/iPad.

    To share a whole trip with all its tracks as a single KMZ (Google Earth) file.

    Same as above, but pick “Google Earth KMZ” when using “Save file” or “Email file” options.

    Exporting list of trips.

    Use the filter to only show trips started or finished in a certain month if you need to create a list only for that month.

    Then use the action button to open the preview with the list of filtered trips. The preview window has its own action button to do “whatever” with the list, open in Numbers/Excel, send by email, save to iCloud/Dropbox, unlimited options here.

    SHARING SINGLE TRACK DATA

    Exporting tracks in GPX, Google Earth KML (gx:Track or gx:Geometry) formats

    Use the action button on top of the single track view to open the export and sharing options:

    Pick either “Save file”, “Email file” or “Share track image”.

    Options “Save file” and “Email file” will ask for the target format. You can pick from GPX, Google Earth gx:Track or Google Earth gx:Geometry.

    From version 1.8, “Share track image” is a very nice-looking option for sharing via Facebook, email, or even attaching the track to the Notes app. Try it!

    In version 1.9 (currently in beta) a new option is added — “Photo GPX”. This option guarantees that you’ll have a timestamp with a location for every second in the exported file. This is needed to match a GPX track to photos in Adobe Lightroom.

    Exporting list of tracks.

    Use the filter to only show tracks started or ended in a certain month if you need to create a list only for that month.

    Then use the action button to open the preview with the list of filtered tracks. The preview window has its own action button to do “whatever” with the list, open in Numbers/Excel, send by email, save to iCloud/Dropbox, unlimited options here.

    MOVING TRACK BETWEEN TRIPS

    In the track list, swipe on a track row from right to left to reveal the Move option:

    PIN EXISTING TRACK TO THE MAP

    This option allows you to repeat the track forward or backward. Your active track will be shown on the map in red, the pinned track to follow will be blue.

    As shown in the previous section, swipe on the track row from right to left and pick “Pin to live map”.

    TRACKS IMPORT

    When you share the whole Speedometer trip archive/backup as described in the “Sharing trips” section, you just open the .trk file with Speedometer and it automatically recreates all of the data in the trip backup/archive.

    Another option is to open a GPX file with Speedometer. Speedometer supports importing tracks, waypoints, and routes from GPX. More information here:

    Importing tracks, waypoints and routes.

    For a complete guide covering all export formats, backup strategies, and moving data to a new device, see:

    Complete backup and data transfer guide

    This feature is available only in the full version.

    You can upgrade by tapping here.