GPS tracking - user manual

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Video tutorial for GPS tracking.

TWO SCENARIOS OF GPS TRACKING

"Stats only" is to enable car drivers to collect and view/export statistical information about their tracks which can be useful for trip journals and tax deduction purposes.

"GPS Journal" is to enable point by point GPS track of time, location, speed and altitude for purposes of viewing tracks on map, their detailed analysis and sharing via Google Earth, GPX or Speedometer's native format.

Tracks are organized under trips. So trip with name "Trip to Italy 2016" may contain multiple tracks as "Prague to Rome", "Rome to Milano", "Milano to Prague". Trip gives you overall stats for the included in it tracks. You can move tracks between trips.

RECORDING TRACKS

Tap on a MENU button here:

or here:

And pick "NEW TRACK" option. First time only, speedometer will show a "Welcome to GPS tracking" screen. Please review the information on that screen and tap on "Start my Track!" button at the bottom.

Speedometer will ask you if you want to keep only statistics for the new track or record a point by point GPS journal:

Confirm the option you prefer for this track and now on the main screen (GPS dashboard) you'll the new controls and indicators related to tracking:

To name these new elements:

#1 - Pause the track button

#2 - Stop the track button

#3 - Tracking indicator. Green square means that GPS tracking journal is recorded and recording is optimized (data are filtered so track is smooth on the map, but some of the non-important points can be filtered out). For the "stats only" tracking type you'll see a shallow square here.

#4 - BCK - Background mode indicator. It is a very reasonable default behavior that when you start a new track app stays working even in the background until you pause or stop the track recording. This way when you run other apps on top, have a phone call or phone locked, app still keeps recording the track until you do MENU > PAUSE TRACK or STOP TRACK. You can surely use controls #1 and #2 for the same actions.

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

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

VIEWING SINGLE TRACK

MENU > TRACKS will show you the list of tracks:

"Last 10" is a filter button - to give you ability to filter tracks by start or end date or just show last X tracks. Tap on a track row to see the detailed track view:

Functions common to all track view types:

• Settings button on top of the screen allow to switch between different track views
• Action button on top allows 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. Should be looking lovely when sharing via email, Facebook, etc.
• Grid button top-right allows to either move the track to a different trip or pin it to the main map so you can retrace it.

Functions specific to a Map + Chart type of view:

• Use +/- 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, light blue arrow on a 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 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 a track view types:

• Map + speed and altitude chart
• Map + stats
• Map + cost
• Map only

What else can be done?

• View tracks colored by speed or altitude
• Retrace a previously recorded track
• Move track to a different trip (just swipe on a track row to see the "Move" option)

REVIEWING ALL TRACKS UNDER THE TRIP

When in the "Trips" list:

Tap on the "list" button (arrow 1) to see all the tracks in this trip (sorry we are using a different trip tracks in the following image, "Parndorf" trip had only one track...):

We can see complete list of tracks for this trip here and by default the last track is only shown on the map.

You can show all trip tracks on the map at once by tapping on "Show all" (arrow 1) button:

Trip and tracks list sharing options are available by tapping on action button (arrow 2).

By tapping on a specific track row, you'll get it isolated and highlighted on the map:

This is it for the viewing options.

SHARING TRIPS

To backup 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 right bottom 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" option only gives email option.

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

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

Then use action button to open the preview with the list of the filtered trips. 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 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 to share via Facebook, email or even attaching track to notes app. Try it!

In version 1.9 (currently in beta) 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 GPX track to photos in the Adobe Lightroom.

Exporting list of tracks.

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

Then use action button to open the preview with the list of the filtered tracks. 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.