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Explore the wall and discover activities from people and places near you

17/11/2009 | Posted by Nick | Permalink

Today sees the launch of the Map My Tracks Activity Wall that lets you easily discover new routes and workouts, follow the activities of others and add comment on activities near you. The Activity Wall is made from a series of columns that let you build the wall to show the activities you want to follow.

Follow one or all activity types, follow other Map My Tracks users or simply follow activities in your town. The choice is yours.

Activity wall

So why is the wall useful? With the number of activities being added to Map My Tracks increasing each day it has made it tricky to find and follow different activities that may be of interest. The activity wall aims to fix this and let you see the activities that you are interested in. The explore map still lets you see all the activities, as before, on a map if that is what you prefer.

Start building your own wall

We have made is super simple to set the wall the way you want to and add new columns with content you want to follow. Start by logging in to customise the wall the way you want to. Add columns to include:

all public activities;
your own public and private activities;;
activity types (e.g., cycling, running, walking, etc)
activities by other Map My Tracks users;
all activities in a country; and
all activities around a place near you.

Adding and uploading activities to the wall

Upload activities Getting your activities live on the wall is done directly from the Map My Tracks phone app. Alternatively, simply upload GPX or Garmin files here on the site. Either way your public activities become part of the wall for others to see and follow. As before, all private activities remain visible to just you.

Comment on activities

The activity wall also makes it quicker and easier to post a comment on someone’s activity. Comments are a great way to provide encouragement, or find out more about the activity.

Comment on activities

Follow friends

The activity wall lets you easily follow the activities of other Map My Tracks users. This is a great way to follow friends that you may share workouts with or simply to get inspiration from others.

We’ve made a small change to the main navigation of the site to make the activity wall just one click away at all times.

We’re really excited to see how you use the activity wall. As ever, if you would like to see additional features added to the wall just let us know.

Enjoy.

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