To change a saved track: Track Library › Edit. Editing a recorded walk or a GPX saves a new track and keeps the original.
Paste the sheet: one line per milestone, "mileage description", with * after the mileage for restrooms. Other lines are ignored. Only place names are sent to the search, never the rest of the sheet.
CSV columns: mile, place, note, restroom (a header line names them). A place is searched as written; a row with no place is a waypoint.
Planned: a topographic map, a hiking-trail overlay and mobile coverage. The map needs a connection (offline maps come with Stage 3).
Grey dashed parts are removed. A cut joins its two sides with a straight line. The walk's earlier version is kept: Track Library › Restore. Snap to trails opens Plan with the edited walk routed along trails, one request per segment, and saves a new track.
| Done | Remaining | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distance | – | – | – |
| Ascent | – | – | – |
| Descent | – | – | – |
Trails has moved to trails.rinociardo.com. Your tracks and walks stay on this phone at this address: Export each one below (Save to Files), then at the new address Track Library › Import GPX and pick them all at once.
None yet. Import a GPX, draw a track in Plan, or make one from a walk.
None yet. Every walk is saved here when you press Stop.
Import adds the file here and loads it to follow in Go; pick several files at once to add them all without loading any. "Export" on a row writes it as GPX (a walk stays a walk when imported again). "Edit" opens a saved track in Plan; editing a recorded walk or a GPX saves a new track and keeps the original.
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Nothing recorded
While the app was in the background, the screen locked, the app closed, or GPS had no fix, the way you walked was guessed: along the track if you were on it before and after, else along trails (up to 3 routes that fit your walking speed), else a straight line. Filled gaps are dashed on the map. Show one to see the other routes in grey and tap one to switch: the totals follow.
"Export track" saves the loaded route with its elevations. "Export my hike" saves the path you actually walked, with the time of each point (one segment per Start/Stop) and its elevation from the DEM (none for points recorded with no signal in an area not stored on the device). On iPhone and in Safari on the Mac the Share sheet opens: Save to Files, AirDrop, Messages. Other browsers download the file. GPX files always store metres (the GPX standard); the description inside gives the totals in your units.
Straight segments of a planned track have no path to follow, so you may stray further from the line there. Whatever the alert, Go shows "Off track" and how far the track is, and Remaining shows "—" until you are back on it. The Alerts button on Go changes it for the current hike only.
Dim shows a black screen, which uses very little power on the iPhone's OLED display. The map stops updating while dimmed. While hiking the app keeps the screen awake with Wake Lock (Go shows "Screen awake"; this device: –).
More fixes give a steadier position but it trails behind you: about half a second per fix (5 fixes ≈ 2 s ≈ 3 m at walking pace).
Go › Pause (during a picnic, at a summit, in a café) draws a zone around you. Nothing counts while paused, even walking about inside it. Once you are outside it and walking steadily away (or along the loaded track) for about a minute, the hike resumes by itself, counted from where you left the zone, with an Undo. If it isn't clear (outside but slow, or back and forth), it asks instead. Resume works by hand too.
When the app was in the background, locked or closed during a hike, or GPS had no fix for 20 s or more, the way you walked is guessed (Track Library › Gaps). Trail routes that would need a faster walk than this in the time you were gone are left out.
The distance grows to the GPS accuracy when that is worse. The climb check stops slow, steep climbs from counting as stops: 3 m (10 ft) in 30 s is a climbing rate of 360 m (1,180 ft) an hour. Lower it if slow climbs still show "Stopped"; it needs a track with elevations. The debug view's "Climb" line shows the value over the last window, to help you choose.
Removes small ups and downs from total ascent/descent. Compare with Maps 3D PRO on the same GPX to tune it. Tracks without elevations (free recordings, GPX files without them, the test loop) get them from a DEM (Digital Elevation Model) when online; Go › Fill elevations retries after being offline. While you walk, your elevation, ascent and descent come from the same DEM at your position (never GPS altitude).
Elevation tiles stored on this device: –
Each tile covers about 1.7 km (1 mi) and is kept once downloaded (at most 600, about 60 MB), so walking again in an area you have walked or loaded a track in works without signal. With no signal anywhere else, Go shows "elevation unavailable".
Slopes are shown in degrees and as a grade: 15° = 27%, 20° = 36%, 30° = 58%, 45° = 100%. Trail segments follow footpaths using openrouteservice (foot-hiking), through the Trails relay: nothing to set up. When routing is unavailable (offline) or its daily limit is reached, segments are drawn straight.
The map credits are on the map itself. . . Elevations (DEM):
Simulated GPS walks the loaded track at 10× speed with GPS noise, a 45 s stop and a 120 m detour. With no track loaded it walks a 2 km square from your last recorded point (or the map centre), to test free recording. After Go › Pause it stands still for a minute (a picnic), then walks on. The app reloads when you switch it. Remember to turn it off before a real hike.
"Test loop here" draws a square loop of about 800 m starting where you stand, for a walk-around test. It is not kept when you close the app, unless a hike with it is in progress.