About Tracks & Routes

• Tracks act like breadcrumb trails, allowing you to see where you or another individual traveled in the past. Tracks contain track points, not waypoints or points of interest. They provide a record of where you have been and when to later determine your path and speed.

Locus Map can record tracks and import already recorded tracks from other sources.

• Routes are generally made up of a series of significant points along your path. Locus Map will tell you the bearing and distance to the next point in sequence as you navigate along your route. Each point is usually named (in fact, a route is usually just a sequence of waypoints). Routes can be planned directly in Locus Map point by point or Locus Map can calculate it for you.

Actually, Locus Map can transform a previously recorded track into a route and navigate along it.

• open a folder containing tracks or routes in the Library
• tap next to the track(s) you want to display on the map. It changes into and highlights:
  . All highlighted tracks are displayed on the map.

When you have a track detail in the Library open, tap the eye button in the top right corner:

• tap the eye button next to the folder title and select display all:
  
• to deactivate all tracks in the folder, select hide all

To hide tracks/routes from the map screen, revert the procedures described above. Plus, there are a few more options:

• to hide a single track, tap it on the map and select hide from the bottom menu:
  
• to hide all tracks/routes, tap the broom button in the map content panel:
  

When you tap on a track/route in My Library folder, the detail panel emerges. The upper part is filled with a map preview of the track. Tapping the centering button opens the map screen with the track aligned in the center:

When you tap a track on the map, the detail panel slides up from the bottom:
Tapping the track name (1) minimizes/maximizes the detail panel:

You can display photos and videos that you took while recording your trip on the track detail panel:
This is optional and needs to be activated in settings:
Tapping a photo opens it in detail. Each photo can be shared via your favourite services or opened in the phone gallery for further processing:

The upper part of the track detail panel contains the track name (1), date of creation (2), and basic stats of the track/route (3). Tapping the arrow button on the right maximizes the stats screen:

The elevation chart (4) displays the position of the tapped trackpoint:
You can set the parameters displayed on the chart axes - the X axis can display time and distance, and the two Y axes can display up to 9 parameters, including altitude, slope angle, speed, pace, and data from connected sensors:

The maximizing button unfolds an array of charts depicting all available parameters:


The selected trackpoint is highlighted there too, displaying related values on the charts. You can zoom the charts horizontally and shift the finger across them to show the exact values at selected locations:

The topbar menu for the chart section offers options to display all available charts or display/hide waypoints and zooming buttons:

More details emerge when you slide the track detail panel further up:

Available only with Premium Gold

The way types and surfaces along the route are displayed only if the route is planned in the Locus Map route planner using LoRouter:

When you tap the way type or surface graph the description is shown. shows the way types/surfaces along the route in %:

The main waypoints along the route are displayed as icons:

To display a list of all of them including navigation waypoints, maximize the box with the arrow button:

Each waypoint can be edited or deleted (menu). To add more waypoints, copy or move them, tap the red + button:

When the track is recorded and contains time data, here you can see the best interval on the track:

Maximizing the box shows all intervals along the track. The track length can be set in the topbar:

The lowest part of the panel displays the track/route details: its activity, line style and folder in which the track is stored:

All of it can be edited.

The toolbar at the bottom of the track detail panel offers a wide range of tools divided into categories:

• - trackpoint detail screen
• - navigation and guidance
• - sharing methods
• - editing info and style
• - menu of other tools

Each track or route consists of track or route points. Tapping the icon in the corner opens the detail screen with information about the particular point:

At first, the panel is slid up only partially, showing the distance to the trackpoint and its elevation. The distance is the sum of the distance to the closest point on the track and the distance along the track to the selected trackpoint. Further sliding up shows full detail:

• Track - name and folder, arrow buttons to move among other track points along the track
• Statistics - distance, time and elevation gain to the start of the track and to its end
• Location - GPS coords, actual speed, azimuth of the device, GPS accuracy, and date of creation

• - back to the track detail
• - creates a new point on the track point position
• - starts navigation or guidance to the track point
• - opens tools of related add-ons (e.g. nearest geocaches)
• - options of sharing the track point
• - local weather forecast

Tapping the button opens a selection dialog where you can start navigation or guidance along the route.

Another bottom bar menu offers track/route sharing options:

• Share by link - the app generates a link that you can send to your friends via a favorite app or service:
  

Anyone with the link can display the route. When opened in a browser, the route is displayed on Locus Map Web Planner. When clicking on a phone or tablet with Locus Map installed, the route is displayed in the app's route planner. Shared route is marked both in its detail and in the folder:

• Share as GPX - Locus Map offers other available apps through which you can send your track/route quickly as a GPX file:
  Open offers apps that can import the GPX and display it (Garmin Connect, Mapy.cz…). Share sends the GPX file as an attachment.
• Image & stats - Locus Map generates an “Instagram” picture containing the elevation chart and basic stats, with three options for the background - a map with the track,
  
  an activity-related image
  
  and a custom background:
  
  The chart and stats can be hidden:
  
  After generating the image, tap the sharing button:
  
  The picture can be shared via any available app on your phone.
• Track overview - Locus Map generates a hi-res JPG with the track map, elevation chart and detailed statistics. This can be shared via any available app on your phone.
  

Here you can edit the name, description, activity type, folder and the line style of the track/route.

Plus, if you have doubts about the elevation gain of the track/route, you can adjust the altitude threshold to eliminate possible elevation deviations:

• Re-route - opens the track/route in the route planner for re-planning
• Edit track - opens the track/route in the track editor for repairs or detailed editing
• Export - opens the export center where you can select the file format or an external service for export
• Make a copy - creates a copy of the track/route. You can rename the copy, select a folder, reverse its direction, or add navigation prompts:
  
  

  Reverse the route only for off-road use! Navigation commands on a reversed route don't reflect the traffic situation accurately.

• Hide - removes the track/route from the map screen
• Delete - removes the track/route from the app - this is irreversible!

The second level of the menu contains more advanced options:

• Hide all others - only available when the track/route is visible on the map. Hides all other tracks but this one.
• Update elevation - Available only with Premium - adds or updates elevation data of the track/route for elevation gain and chart
• Analyzer - useful when you need to know statistics and charts of a particular part of the track or route:
  • tap the track on the place from which you want to define the span
  • tap the other point of the span. You can repeat this step and change the span definition.
  • check the general stats and elevation chart in the bottom bar
    
    When you want to see detailed statistics and charts, confirm your selection:
    
    The selected track part is displayed in a new detail window with info, stats and chart tabs:
    
    To share the track part, select an option from the Share menu:
    

To make a copy of the track part, to export it, compute the area covered by it or calculate its estimated travel time, select from the tool menu:

• Weather - local weather forecast
• Compute area - calculates the area covered by the track/route
• Estimated travel time - calculates the route time according to the selected activity. More here >>
• Itinerary - list of waypoints along the route, sorted by the distance from the start:
  
  To display a particular waypoint on the map, tap it.