TRACKS is the travel channel for experienced travellers, everyday adventurers, and urban explorers with a taste for new experiences in all parts of the world. My Tracks for Android enables you to record GPS tracks and view live statistics while. What's new in version 1.0.17; Version 1.0.17 added full backup or restore, automated preferences backup.
My Tracks for Android enables you to record GPS tracks and view live statistics while. What's new in version 1.0.17; Version 1.0.17 added full backup or restore, automated preferences backup.
| Original author(s) | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | |
| Initial release | 12 February 2009[1] |
| Final release | 2.0.11[2] / 21 January 2016; 4 years ago[3] |
| Preview release | |
| Written in | Java, XML (content language) |
| Operating system | Android 1.5+ |
| Size | Varies with device[2] |
| License | Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| Website | www.google.com/mobile/mytracks/ |
MyTracks was a GPS tracking application that runs on Android. The application uses a device's GPS to collect data, allowing real-time review of path, speed, distance, and elevation. Later, this data can be saved to Google Maps, Google Fusion Tables, or Google Docs and shared with Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. The application also allows a user to record annotations along the path, hear periodic voice announcements of progress, and sync with select third-party bio-metric sensors.
Google has announced that as of the 1st May 2016, MyTracks will be deprecated and no longer available in the Google Play Store.[2][4] The app itself continues to work and is still available to sideload via APK repositories.
An in-app popup alerted users that MyTracks would stop working on April 30, 2016;[5] Google has confirmed[6] they will be investing in 'other, more wide-reaching, mapping projects'.
Features[edit]
- Record path, speed, distance, and elevation
- View data live, record annotations along the path, and hear periodic voice announcements of progress
- Share with social networks (Google+, Facebook, or Twitter) using Google Maps, Google Fusion Tables, or Google Docs
- Sync with third party bio-metric sensors (Zephyr HxM, Polar WearLink, and Ant+ compatible heart rate and speed distance monitors)
- Export data as GPX, KML, CSV, or TCX
History[edit]
The application made its debut on February 12, 2009 under a closed license.[1] A year later on March 28, 2010, Google announced the release of the source code and open-sourcing of the application, stating 'The collective intelligence of the development community will create a more powerful, more intuitive, more useful, and more robust My Tracks.'[7] The first major re-haul of the application came on July 13, 2012 when Google released version 2.0 of the application. Version 2.0 introduced a new interface, support for playing back data in Google Earth for Android (although this feature is broken since Google Earth v8[8]), improved charts, and additional statistics.[9] In 2014 the developers announced on the google code project site that My Tracks is no longer developed in the open and that the source will be removed on 01/01/2015.[10] The last open source version was 2.0.5 released in August 2013.[11]
Reception[edit]
As of September 2013, the Google Play Store listed the application as being installed on 10,000,000 – 50,000,000 devices, with an overall rating of 4.4/5 from over 80,000 reviews.[2]CNET gave the application 4/5 stars, praising its 'Chart, Statistics, and satellite playback' and ability to pause recordings but criticized it for an 'unattractive interface' and lack of 'athletic-specific features'.[12] PCWorld awarded MyTracks with a perfect 5/5 stars, stating 'this app is just about perfect. It is intuitive to use and very stable.' However, PCWorld did mention they would like to see a few features added.[13]
Forks[edit]
OpenTracks is an open source fork of Google's MyTrack that respects privacy. It is actively developed, in 2020 Version 3.7.x was published.
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abShankland, Stephen (February 12, 2009). 'My Tracks turns Android phone into GPS device'. CNET. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^ abcd'My Tracks'. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^'My Tracks'. Jan 30, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- ^'My Tracks no longer available after April 30, 2016 - Google Maps Help'. support.google.com. Retrieved 2016-02-06.
- ^'Screenshot about App discontinuation (German)'. Google+. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
- ^'Google statement about MyTracks discontinuation'. Google. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^Dornbush, Sandor; Damazio, Rodrigo (May 28, 2010). 'Code for My Tracks is now yours'. Google Lat-Long Blog. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^'Google Maps and Earth Help Forum: KMZ file won't transfer correctly from My tracks to Google Earth any more'. Google Groups. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^Lardinois, Frederic (July 13, 2012). 'Google Launches MyTracks 2.0 GPS App For Hikers, Bikers & Runners'. TechCrunch. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^'My Tracks for Android - Google Project Hosting'. Retrieved 2014-06-21.
- ^https://code.google.com/p/mytracks/downloads/list?can=1&q=&colspec=Filename+Summary+Uploaded+ReleaseDate+Size+DownloadCount
- ^Cabebe, Jaymar (October 4, 2012). 'My Tracks review: Google makes a solid multipurpose GPS tracker'. CNET. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
- ^Rose, Brent (September 14, 2010). 'My Tracks'. PCWorld. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
macOS
myTracks for macOS is the swiss-army knife for organizing your GPS tracks. They can be loaded from a broad range of devices and organized in a library comfortably.
Once imported you can drag & drop photo files (JPEG or RAW) to myTracks and they will be assigned to the GPS tracks automatically. The GPS information can be written to the EXIF and IPTC tags of the photo files (Geotagging).
GPS tracks can be exported as GPX, KML or KMZ files. You can use the exported files, e.g. with Google Earth.
iOS
myTracks turns your iPhone into a fully functional GPS logger. During recording, you can add waypoints to highlight important locations. The GPS tracks are stored on your iPhone and optionally in iCloud. There is no need to register or login to any network service.
You can start and stop individual GPS recordings or use the power-saving diary mode. Using this mode myTracks automatically creates a single track for each day with the most important locations.
The integrated Apple Watch app displays information about the current GPS recording. This includes the starting time, distance traveled, current, minimum and maximum elevation.
myTracks is available for iPhone and iPad on the App Store:
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