Trail Tracker

Use Trail Tracker to stay safe when enjoying outdoor activities such as trekking, hiking, boating, walking, running or cycling.

Key features
•    Record journey and manage journey locations
•    Save and share journeys using Email or Cloud Services
•    Send SMS messages, messages can be preset or customised.
•    Save 25 favorite locations using the Pin feature
•   Shared journeys can be imported into Google Earth
• Change the default Location

As a journey proceeds, Trail Tracker records up to 600 journey map coordinates which can be displayed as a map overlay to show the travel path, pin markers show the starting and finish locations with details on remaining record time and the estimated distance travelled.

The estimated travel distance is the sum of the calculated distance between sequential GPS locations.

Journeys can be saved to the phone or shared using Email or a Cloud Storage service, Shared journeys can be imported into Google Earth are compatible with Google Earth to allow journeys to be saved and managed independent of Trail Tracker.

The journey recording option selects from 4 sample intervals
•    2.5 hours of recording with a sample rate set at 15 seconds
•    5 hours of recording with a sample rate set at 30 seconds
•    10 hours of recording with a sample rate set at 1 minute
•    50 hours of recording with a sample rate set at 5 minutes

Sent SMS messages will contain a short status message which can be customised and fully controlled by the app user. The SMS message will also include the current GPS location which can be copied into a Google maps application to show your location.

Tag and save 25 favorite locations, map pins also show location information. This feature is requires network connectivity for the location information to be displayed.

Location uses WiFi, Cellular networks and GPS satellites, however indoor locations may affect the detection of GPS satellite signals.

Menu options are dynamic, only showing the allowed options, as an example the option 'Show journey' will not be available if recording has not been started.

The default map zoom can be set using the screen pinch or finger tap methods.  Map zoom settings are saved and used when the app is restarted.

The default location is Sydney Australia. If location permission is allowed at the first time the app is used the current location will be set as the default location, the default location can be changed.

Trail Tracker requires to
•    User permission to access GPS Location services
•   Permission to read Contacts
•   Permission to Send SMS messages.