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Activity Insights now analyzes your lap data for deeper training insights

We've just enhanced Activity Insights with a feature that serious cyclists and runners have been asking for: detailed lap-by-lap analysis powered by AI.

Whether you’re doing structured indoor training sessions, interval workouts on the road, or analysing segments of a long ride, Activity Insights can now see the complete picture of your training—not just overall averages, but how you performed across every lap of your session.

What’s New: Lap Data in Activity Insights

Activity Insights now receives comprehensive lap data for every activity, including:

Performance Metrics Per Lap:
• Time and distance
• Maximum, average, and minimum speed
• Power output (max, average, and normalized)
• Heart rate zones and distribution
• Cadence (minimum, maximum, average)
• Altitude changes and ascent

Advanced Training Metrics:
• Power zones distribution per lap
• Intensity Factor
• Training Load (TSS)
• Watts per kilogram
• Left/right balance
• Variability Index

This data is now available both in the detailed lap table on the website and is sent to the AI when generating your Activity Insights coaching feedback.

Why Lap Data Matters for Training

If you’ve ever done structured training—intervals on the turbo trainer, hill repeats, or tempo sessions—you know that the overall average tells you very little about the quality of your workout.

A session might show an average power of 200 watts, but that could mean:
• Steady endurance riding at 200 watts for an hour
• 20 hard intervals at 300 watts with easy recovery between
• Gradually fading efforts starting at 250 watts and finishing at 150 watts

These are completely different training stimuli, and they require different coaching feedback.

With lap-by-lap analysis, Activity Insights can now understand the structure of your training session and provide coaching that reflects what you actually did—not just what the averages suggest.

Real Example: Indoor Training Analysis

Here’s an actual Activity Insights response analyzing an indoor cycling session with lap data:

“Nick, this indoor cycling session demonstrated a solid structure with a focus on varied power outputs across laps. Notably, your laps showed a mix of endurance and some higher intensity efforts, but there was a significant emphasis on Zone 2 (39%) and Zone 3 (32%) with only 7% in Zone 4. This indicates a need to incorporate more sustained efforts at higher intensities to enhance your threshold power, which is crucial for the upcoming Marmotte Gran Fondo.

Overall, keep focusing on building your threshold strength while maintaining good pacing control. This pattern will help you prepare effectively for your ultra-distance cycling goals.”

Notice how Activity Insights:
• Identifies the zone distribution across the entire session
• Recognizes specific laps where performance was strong
• Provides actionable guidance based on upcoming goals
• Suggests specific improvements for the next session

This level of analysis was previously only available through expensive coaching services or spending hours manually reviewing data.

How Different Athletes Benefit from Lap Analysis

Indoor Cyclists and Zwift Riders

Indoor training sessions are naturally structured around intervals. With lap data analysis, Activity Insights can:
• Assess whether you’re maintaining target power across interval repetitions
• Identify if you’re fading on later intervals (a sign of poor pacing or too-high targets)
• Recognize recovery intervals and distinguish them from work intervals
• Evaluate your overall session structure and suggest improvements

Runners Doing Track or Interval Sessions

For runners completing track sessions or structured intervals:
• Analyze pace consistency across repetitions
• Identify whether your pace is dropping on later intervals
• Monitor heart rate response to repeated efforts
• Provide guidance on pacing strategy for future sessions

Cyclists Training for Sportives and Gran Fondos

Long rides often include multiple climbs or varied terrain. Lap data helps Activity Insights:
• Analyze how you performed on each major climb
• Identify whether you paced climbs effectively
• Recognize if you’re recovering properly between efforts
• Assess your ability to maintain power output over long distances

Time Triallists and Triathletes

Consistent pacing is crucial for time trials and triathlon bike legs. Lap analysis reveals:
• Whether you started too hard and faded
• How consistent your effort was throughout
• Where you lost time or gained time
• Pacing strategy improvements for future events

What Activity Insights Can Now Tell You

With access to lap data, Activity Insights provides much more nuanced coaching:

Interval Quality Assessment
“Your first three intervals averaged 285W, but intervals 4-6 dropped to 260W. This suggests your interval target might be slightly too high for the current number of repetitions. Consider reducing the target by 5-10W to maintain quality throughout the session.”

Pacing Analysis
“Excellent pacing control today. Your power output varied by less than 3% across all six climbing intervals, and your variability index of 1.01 indicates very steady efforts. This consistency will serve you well during long sportives.”

Progressive Improvement Recognition
“Comparing to your session three weeks ago, you’re now maintaining higher power in the later intervals. Lap 8 today averaged 245W versus 220W previously—clear evidence your threshold is improving.”

Recovery Monitoring
“Your heart rate took longer to recover between intervals 4-6 compared to intervals 1-3. This suggests accumulated fatigue. Consider adding an extra recovery day before your next high-intensity session.”

Zone Distribution Guidance
“Today’s session spent 45% of time in Zone 2 and 35% in Zone 3, with only 8% above threshold. For your gran fondo preparation, aim to increase Zone 3 time to build sustained power at tempo pace.”

Technical Details: The Data Behind the Insights

Every lap in your activity now includes comprehensive metrics that Activity Insights can analyze:

Power Analysis (for cycling)
Maximum power, average power, and normalized power give a complete picture of your effort. Normalized power is particularly valuable because it accounts for the physiological cost of variable efforts—a crucial metric for structured training.

Heart Rate Distribution
Rather than just average heart rate, Activity Insights sees how much time you spent in each heart rate zone during every lap. This reveals whether your intervals were hitting the intended intensity and how your cardiovascular system responded throughout the session.

Power Zone Distribution
Similar to heart rate zones, power zone distribution shows where your efforts actually fell. You might think you did a “threshold session,” but the data might reveal most of your time was actually in Zone 2. Activity Insights can spot this and provide guidance accordingly.

Intensity Factor and Training Load
These advanced metrics quantify the overall stress of your session. An Intensity Factor above 1.0 indicates you averaged above your FTP (very hard), while Training Load (TSS) measures the total training stimulus accounting for both intensity and duration.

Variability Index
This metric indicates how steady your effort was. A variability index near 1.0 suggests very consistent power output (ideal for time trials), while higher values indicate more variable efforts (typical of criterium racing or group rides with attacks).

Lap Data on the Website

Beyond AI analysis, lap data is now displayed in comprehensive tables on the Map My Tracks website. For every activity with lap data, you can see:

• Complete metrics for every lap side by side
• Easy comparison across laps to spot trends
• All the advanced training metrics in one place
• The same data that Activity Insights analyzes

This gives you both the AI coaching perspective and the ability to dive deep into the numbers yourself when you want more detail.

How to Get the Most from Lap Data Analysis

1. Use Auto Lap Features
Most GPS devices can automatically create laps based on:
• Distance (every km or mile)
• Time intervals (every 5 or 10 minutes)
• Position (each lap of a track or circuit)
• Manual lap button presses

Configure auto lap on your Garmin, Wahoo, or Coros device to ensure your structured sessions are properly segmented.

2. Structure Your Indoor Sessions
When training indoors on Zwift or a smart trainer, use workout mode to create properly structured sessions. Each interval will appear as a separate lap, allowing Activity Insights to analyze the quality of each repetition.

3. Mark Laps During Key Efforts
During outdoor rides, press the lap button at the start and end of climbs, intervals, or other key segments. This helps Activity Insights understand the structure of your training and provide more relevant feedback.

4. Review Both the AI Analysis and the Data Table
Activity Insights provides the coaching perspective, but sometimes you want to see the numbers yourself. Use both the AI feedback and the detailed lap table to fully understand your training.

Privacy and Your Lap Data

Just like all your activity data, lap information remains private. When Activity Insights analyzes your session, the data is sent to the AI for analysis but is not stored or used to train AI models. Your training data stays yours.

What’s Coming Next

Lap data analysis is available now for all Activity Insights users. We’re already working on enhancements including:

Weekly Training Analysis
Aggregate lap data across multiple sessions to identify training patterns over longer periods. For example, “Your threshold intervals have improved by an average of 15W over the past month.”

Workout Comparison
Compare lap-by-lap performance across similar sessions to track your progression on specific workouts.

Goal-Specific Lap Analysis
Enhanced analysis tailored to specific goals like gran fondo preparation, marathon training, or time trial improvement.

Who Benefits Most from Lap Data Analysis?

You’ll get the most value from lap data analysis if you:
• Do structured interval training (indoors or outdoors)
• Train with power or heart rate zones
• Complete track sessions or hill repeats
• Use Zwift or other structured training platforms
• Prepare for sportives, gran fondos, or races
• Want detailed feedback on workout quality beyond simple averages

You’ll still benefit even if you don’t do structured training:
Activity Insights will continue to provide valuable feedback based on your overall activity data. Lap analysis simply adds an extra dimension for those who do structured training.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Does lap data analysis work for running activities?
A: Yes, Activity Insights analyzes lap data for both cycling and running activities. Any activity with lap data will receive lap-specific coaching feedback.

Q: Do I need special equipment to use lap data analysis?
A: Most GPS devices (Garmin, Wahoo, Coros) automatically create lap data. Activities imported from these devices will include lap information that Activity Insights can analyze.

Q: Is lap data analysis available for free users?
A: Yes, lap data analysis is included in Activity Insights, which is free for all Map My Tracks users.

Q: Can I see my lap data on the website?
A: Yes, activities with lap data display comprehensive lap tables on the Map My Tracks website showing all metrics for each lap.

Q: Will Activity Insights always mention lap data in its analysis?
A: Activity Insights will reference lap data when it’s relevant and adds value to the coaching feedback. For steady-state activities, the overall analysis may be more useful than lap-by-lap details.

Q: Does lap data analysis work with indoor trainer sessions?
A: Yes, this is one of the best use cases. Indoor training sessions on smart trainers typically include detailed lap data that Activity Insights can analyze to provide workout-specific coaching.

Getting Started with Lap Analysis

If you’re already using Map My Tracks with Activity Insights, lap data analysis is automatically available for activities that include lap information. Just complete your next structured training session and Activity Insights will provide coaching feedback that incorporates your lap-by-lap performance.

To ensure your activities include lap data:
• Enable auto lap on your GPS device
• Use workout mode on Zwift or your smart trainer
• Manually mark laps during key efforts
• Import activities from Garmin, Wahoo, or Coros devices

Whether you’re training for your first gran fondo, chasing a marathon PR, or simply trying to make your training more effective, lap data analysis helps you understand what’s working and what needs adjustment.

Your training is more than just averages. With lap data analysis, Activity Insights can finally give you the detailed coaching feedback your structured training deserves.

Download Map My Tracks and experience AI coaching that understands the complete picture of your training: http://www.mapmytracks.com

Hammerhead Karoo Integration: Seamlessly Sync Your Rides to Map My Tracks

We're thrilled to announce a major expansion in Map My Tracks' connected ecosystem: Hammerhead Karoo devices can now sync directly with Map My Tracks, bringing automatic ride uploads and AI-powered coaching insights to thousands of cyclists worldwide.

Direct Integration with SRAM’s Premium GPS Computer

Map My Tracks now supports direct integration with Hammerhead Karoo cycling computers, the acclaimed GPS devices from SRAM’s premium brand. This integration represents a significant milestone in our mission to provide cyclists with the most comprehensive training platform available, regardless of their device preferences.

How It Works

Connecting your Karoo to Map My Tracks is straightforward. You can establish the connection either through the Map My Tracks website or directly within the Map My Tracks mobile app. Once configured, every ride you complete on your Karoo will automatically sync to your Map My Tracks account, eliminating the need for manual uploads or data transfers.

This means your training data flows seamlessly from your handlebars to your complete training history on Map My Tracks, ensuring nothing gets lost and your performance records remain comprehensive and up to date.

Unlock AI-Powered Activity Insights

The real power of this integration extends beyond simple data syncing. With your Karoo rides automatically appearing in Map My Tracks, you immediately gain access to Activity Insights, our sophisticated AI coaching feature that analyses every aspect of your performance.

Activity Insights examines your ride metrics including distance, elevation, power output, heart rate, and pacing strategy to deliver personalised coaching feedback tailored to your specific workout. Whether you’ve completed an interval session, an endurance ride, or a challenging gran fondo, you’ll receive expert-level analysis that helps you understand what you accomplished and how to improve.

For Map My Tracks Plus members, this analysis goes even further. After each ride, you’ll receive a comprehensive Activity Insights summary delivered directly to your inbox, allowing you to review your performance whenever it’s convenient and track your progress over time.

Why This Matters

Hammerhead Karoo devices are renowned for their sophisticated features, exceptional screen quality, and robust performance in demanding conditions. Cyclists who’ve invested in this premium hardware deserve equally premium software to maximize their training potential. That’s exactly what this integration delivers.

By bringing together Hammerhead’s cutting-edge hardware with Map My Tracks’ decade of experience in GPS tracking and AI-powered coaching, we’re providing a complete solution that serves cyclists at every level, from weekend enthusiasts to competitive athletes preparing for major events.

Get Connected Today

Setting up your Hammerhead Karoo integration takes just minutes. Simply log into your Map My Tracks account on the web or open the Map My Tracks app, navigate to device connections, and follow the prompts to authorize your Karoo. From that moment forward, your rides will flow automatically into Map My Tracks, and you’ll start receiving the intelligent coaching feedback that helps you train smarter and ride stronger.

Join the growing community of over one million Map My Tracks users across 190+ countries who trust Map My Tracks to track their training, analyse their performance, and help them reach their cycling goals.

Map My Tracks Plus membership unlocks additional premium features including email delivery of Activity Insights summaries, advanced analytics, and priority support.

Introducing Activity Insights: Your Personal AI Coach

A note from Nick Tatt, Founder of Map My Tracks
I’m excited to share something our team has been working on for months: Activity Insights, an AI-powered feature that gives every Map My Tracks user personalised feedback after their walks, rides, runs and other outdoor activities.

As both an app developer and a certified cycling coach, I’ve always believed that everyone deserves quality feedback about their activities, not just competitive athletes. Whether you’re walking to stay healthy, exploring new trails on weekends, or training for your next big event, you should understand what your body is doing and be able to celebrate your progress. We built Activity Insights on Map My Tracks to give that to everyone.

Feedback that speaks your language

After every activity you track, or upload, Activity Insights analyses what you did: distance, pace, power, elevation, heart rate, weather, time of day, and compares it against your history to spot patterns and give you guidance that matters.

The feedback adapts to what you care about. Walking for general health and enjoyment? You’ll get encouragement about consistency, streaks, and the positive habits you’re building. Training for a gran fondo? You’ll see training load analysis and recovery guidance. The system speaks your language, whatever your goals.

Here’s what makes it powerful: the more you use it, the smarter it gets. Activity Insights learns your habits, recognises when you perform best, and figures out what motivates you. You might discover “You’ve walked every sunny Saturday this month—that’s a great habit!” or “Your Tuesday rides are consistently your strongest. Consider scheduling hard workouts then.”

Built on real understanding

Over the time I’ve been coaching cyclists I’ve found that the best guidance has never been about comparing you to others or pushing arbitrary standards. It’s about understanding your unique patterns, celebrating your progress, whatever that looks like for you, and giving you information that’s actually useful.

That’s what Activity Insights does. Someone building a daily walking routine deserves the same quality of feedback as someone training for their first marathon, just different feedback that matches what matters to them.

Available to everyone

Activity Insights is available now to all Map My Tracks users - free and Plus subscribers. You’ll get insights after every activity you track. Plus subscribers can have insights automatically generated and emailed, which is great for keeping a record of your progress.

The feature works with activities recorded directly in the app and those imported from Garmin, Wahoo, Coros, and others, so you can get insights across all your tracking platforms.

What’s next

This is just the beginning. We’re already working on weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews (think Spotify Wrapped for your fitness), and more sophisticated pattern recognition.

I’m incredibly proud of what our small team has built. Activity Insights represents hundreds of hours of development, testing, and refinement, all focused on making quality feedback accessible to everyone.

If you’re already using Map My Tracks, update your app and take your next walk, ride, or run. Your first Activity Insight is waiting. If you’re new to Map My Tracks, download it free from the App Store or Google Play and get personalised feedback from day one.

Here’s to understanding your activities better, enjoying your time outdoors more, and moving forward, wherever you are in your journey.

Nick Tatt
Founder & Managing Director, Map My Tracks
Certified Cycling Coach

Download Map My Tracks from the App Store or Google Play.

Activity Insights is available free to all Map My Tracks users. Plus subscriptions features including automatic email delivery are available for $4.99/month or $49.99/year.

Introducing Activity Insights (AI): Photo Captions that actually sound like you

We’ve all been there. You’ve just finished an incredible ride through the countryside, or pushed through a muddy trail run, or summited that viewpoint after a grueling hike. You snap a photo to capture the moment. Then you open the app to post it and… blank.

What do you write? “Great ride”? “Amazing view”? Do you skip it entirely and just post the photo with no caption?

Meet Activity Insights (AI) Photo Captions

Starting today, Map My Tracks can write your photo captions for you. But here’s the thing that makes it different: it writes them in your voice. Not in a generic, “awesome day!” kind of way. In your actual communication style.

How does personalisation work?
When you set up Activity Insights, you tell us a few things about how you like to communicate:

• Formality: Are you casual (“Smashing it!”) or more professional (“Solid training session”)?
• Energy level: Calm and measured, or enthusiastic and pumped?
• Focus: Do you want emotional support or technical analysis?
• Communication style: Brief and punchy, or detailed and descriptive?
• Encouragement type: Motivating? Gentle? Competitive? Balanced?

Set these once, and Activity Insights remembers. Every caption it generates will match your style.

Same Photo, Different People, Different Captions
Let’s say three different people take the same photo on a morning trail run. Here’s what Activity Insights might write for each:

Person A (Casual & Upbeat):
“Muddy trails after the rain, legs feeling it but loving every step!”

Person B (Professional & Technical):
“Early trail session in challenging conditions, good traction and form adaptation”

Person C (Reflective & Calm):
“Quiet morning run through the wet trails, peaceful start to the day”

Same photo. Three completely different captions. All natural. All authentic to how each person actually talks.

Why we built this
Map My Tracks has always been about empowering the individuals. We’re not trying to be the biggest fitness app - we’re trying to be the most useful one for people who love outdoor activities.

We’ve got over a million users across 190+ countries, speaking dozens of languages. Our community isn’t one-size-fits-all, so our features shouldn’t be either.

Activity Insights will power our workout analysis feature, giving you personalised feedback after every session. Starting off with photo captions felt like a natural first step. Now both features speak to you in the same voice - your voice.

Beyond just “Epic” and “Amazing”
We specifically trained Activity Insights to avoid generic sports marketing language. No forced enthusiasm. No “crushing it” unless that’s genuinely how you communicate.

The AI focuses on what’s actually visible in your photo - the conditions, the terrain, the time of day, the weather. It understands cycling language, running terminology, hiking context. And it describes things honestly, in a way that matches your preferred style.

If you’re the type who keeps captions short and technical, Activity Insights won’t suddenly get flowery on you. If you prefer detailed, reflective descriptions, it won’t give you three words and an emoji.

Eight languages, one personal voice
Activity Insights works in English, Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian. And the personalisation works in every language.

That means a Spanish-speaking cyclist in Barcelona can get captions that match their preferred formality and energy level, just like an English-speaking runner in Seattle or a German-speaking hiker in Munich.

We think that’s pretty cool.

How to use it
It’s simple:

• Set your preferences (one time, in Settings → Activity Insights)
• Take a photo during your activity
• Tap “Activity Insights”
• Wait 2-3 seconds
• Done

You can edit the caption if you want, or use it as-is. Tap “Try Again” if you want a different option. It’s that flexible.

Why this matters
Here’s the thing: we’re a small team. Three developers, building tools for over a million people, competing against companies with hundreds of engineers.

We can’t win by trying to be everything to everyone. But we can win by being more personal, more thoughtful, and more adaptable than anyone else.

Activity Insights is part of that strategy. It’s AI that doesn’t just work - it works for you, in a way that feels natural to how you already communicate.

It’s free
Activity Insights Photo Captions are available to all Map My Tracks users at no cost. No usage limits. No premium upsell.

What’s next?
This is just the beginning for Activity Insights. We’re already working on:

• Activity notes - in your voice
• Activity trends and insights

But for now, we’re excited to put this in your hands. Take it for a spin. Set your preferences. Generate some captions. Let us know what you think.

Happy tracking,
The Map My Tracks Team

Introducing our most accurate GPS tracking yet

For nearly 20 years, Map My Tracks has been helping millions of people around the world record their outdoor adventures, from weekend park runs to epic mountain bike trails. Today, we're thrilled to announce a major update that takes GPS tracking accuracy to the next level.

Whether you’re a cyclist chasing personal bests, a runner training for your next race, a walker exploring new routes, or an outdoor enthusiast tracking sailing trips and hikes, this update delivers the precision and reliability you need to capture every moment of your journey.

The Challenge of Accurate GPS Tracking

GPS tracking sounds simple in theory, but in practice, it’s remarkably complex. Satellite signals can be affected by tall buildings, tree cover, weather conditions and terrain. This can lead to frustrating inaccuracies like route spikes that show you travelling at impossible speeds, missing sections of your path, or jagged lines that don’t reflect your actual movement.

We’ve listened to your feedback and worked hard to address these challenges. Our engineering team has implemented sophisticated improvements that work together to deliver the most accurate tracking experience we’ve ever offered.

What Makes This Update Special

Intelligent Adaptive Point Recording
At the heart of this update is our new adaptive interval system. The app now captures GPS points using optimised thresholds of 8, 4 and 2 seconds based on your activity type. Slower activities like walking use an 8 second interval for efficient tracking, whilst faster activities benefit from shorter intervals that capture more detail when you need it most.

Each activity type is matched with the ideal recording interval to balance accuracy with battery efficiency. Once you start tracking, the interval remains consistent throughout your session, ensuring reliable data capture without unnecessary complexity.

The result? Smoother, more accurate tracks that truly represent your journey whilst using less battery and storage space.

Enhanced GPS Precision Standards
We’ve refined our GPS accuracy parameters to maintain a strict 50 metre precision threshold on both Android and iOS. This enhancement means the app now filters out unreliable GPS signals more effectively, ensuring only high quality position data is recorded. You’ll notice significantly fewer erratic points and a cleaner, more professional looking route map.

Advanced Speed Validation
One of the most common complaints about GPS tracking apps is the appearance of impossible speed spikes caused by GPS drift or signal interference. Our update includes sophisticated speed filtering that validates all recorded speeds against a maximum threshold of 300 kph.

This intelligent system recognises and discards anomalous data points that would suggest you’ve suddenly teleported or achieved superhuman speeds. Whether you’re running, cycling or engaging in any other activity, your speed data will now accurately reflect your real world performance.

Smart Motion Detection Technology
Both our Android and iOS versions now integrate advanced motion detection capabilities. Using your device’s built in accelerometer and motion sensors, the app can intelligently determine when you’re actually moving versus when you’re stationary.

This feature serves multiple purposes. It helps conserve battery life by reducing GPS polling when you’re not moving, ensures more accurate start and stop times for your activities, and prevents the recording of GPS drift when you’re standing still. The technology works seamlessly in the background, requiring no input from you.

What This Means for Your Activities

For Runners
Track your training runs with confidence knowing your pace, distance and route are being recorded accurately. The improved GPS precision is particularly beneficial for interval training, where accurate distance measurement is crucial.

For Cyclists
Whether you’re road cycling, mountain biking or commuting, you’ll appreciate the cleaner route lines and more accurate elevation data. The speed filtering ensures your maximum and average speed statistics truly reflect your performance.

For Walkers and Hikers
Long distance walks and hikes benefit enormously from the adaptive point recording system, which captures the detail of winding trails whilst maintaining battery efficiency for all day adventures.

For All Outdoor Enthusiasts
From sailing to skiing, horse riding to orienteering, every activity tracked with Map My Tracks now benefits from these fundamental improvements to GPS accuracy and reliability.

Available Now

This significant update is rolling out now to all Map My Tracks users on both Android and iOS. To experience these improvements, simply update your app through the App Store or Google Play.

We recommend updating before your next outdoor adventure to take full advantage of the enhanced tracking capabilities.

Our Commitment to You

At Map My Tracks, we’re committed to continually improving your experience. This GPS accuracy update represents months of development work, testing and refinement, all driven by your feedback and our dedication to providing the best possible tracking solution.

We know that accurate data matters. Whether you’re training for a specific goal, exploring new places, or simply enjoying the satisfaction of logging your activities, you deserve tracking technology that works flawlessly. This update brings us closer to that ideal.

What’s Next

We’re not stopping here. Our development team is already working on additional features and improvements based on your suggestions and requests. Stay tuned for more updates in the coming months.

Get Started Today

Update your app now and experience the difference that enhanced GPS accuracy makes. Then get out there and put it to the test. We think you’re going to love how much more reliable and precise your tracking has become.

As always, we welcome your feedback. If you’re enjoying the new update, please leave us a review on the App Store or Google Play. If you have suggestions or encounter any issues, our support team is here to help at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Happy tracking, and here’s to more accurate adventures ahead!

How Map My Tracks delivers pinpoint GPS accuracy for your activities

Whether you're recording a morning jog, a mountain bike ride, or a leisurely walk with your dog, you expect your GPS tracking app to faithfully capture where you've been.

But anyone who’s used GPS tracking knows the frustration: phantom detours through buildings you never entered, distance calculations that seem wildly off, or route lines that zigzag across the map like a drunken spider.

These aren’t just annoying quirks. They’re fundamental challenges that every GPS tracking app must solve. Your phone’s GPS receiver is constantly battling interference from buildings, trees, tunnels, and atmospheric conditions. Without smart filtering, these imperfections can turn your actual route into a mess of inaccurate data.

At Map My Tracks, we’ve developed a sophisticated algorithm that works behind the scenes to ensure your recorded activities are as accurate as possible. Here’s how we tackle the GPS accuracy challenge.

The problem: GPS isn’t perfect

Your smartphone receives signals from satellites orbiting thousands of miles above Earth. While this technology is remarkable, it’s far from flawless. GPS signals can bounce off buildings, get blocked by dense foliage, or struggle to penetrate cloud cover. Your phone might think you’ve travelled 50 metres when you’ve actually been standing still, or register your speed as 30 mph when you’re walking at a normal pace.

Raw GPS data, left unprocessed, would create activity recordings full of errors, overstated distances, and routes that don’t reflect reality. The solution? Intelligent filtering that separates signal from noise.

How Map My Tracks gets it right

1. Smart update intervals: Different activities, different needs
The challenge: Recording GPS points at the same rate for all activities is inefficient and inaccurate. Sample too frequently during a slow walk and you’ll capture mostly GPS noise. Sample too infrequently during a fast bike ride and you’ll miss important turns and route details.

Our solution: Map My Tracks dynamically adjusts how often it records GPS points based on your activity speed. When you’re walking, we capture a GPS point every 8 seconds. This is frequent enough to track your route accurately without overwhelming the data with noise from small movements. When you’re cycling or moving faster, we increase the frequency to every 2 seconds, ensuring we capture every twist and turn of your route.

This adaptive approach means you get the right level of detail for whatever you’re doing, without wasting battery life or cluttering your route with unnecessary data points.

2. Speed reality checks: Filtering the impossible
The challenge: GPS glitches can make your phone think you’ve suddenly teleported hundreds of metres away, resulting in recorded speeds that would make a fighter jet jealous. These errant points can dramatically inflate your distance and ruin your statistics.

Our solution: Map My Tracks analyses each GPS point and calculates what your speed would need to be to reach it from your previous position. If that speed is unrealistic for human powered movement, say 100 mph during a jog, we know the GPS reading is faulty and we simply omit that point from your recording.

This reality check ensures that momentary GPS hiccups don’t corrupt your entire activity log. Your recorded route stays true to where you actually went, and your distance and speed statistics remain reliable.

3. Accuracy thresholds: Quality over quantity
The challenge: Not all GPS readings are created equal. Your phone reports a “horizontal accuracy” value with each GPS point. This is essentially an estimate of how confident it is about your location. A GPS point might claim you’re at a specific spot, but with an accuracy of only 100 metres, meaning you could actually be anywhere within a 100 metre radius.

Our solution: Map My Tracks sets a strict quality standard. We only accept GPS points with a horizontal accuracy of 50 metres or better. If your phone reports a less accurate reading, often because of poor satellite visibility or signal interference, we wait for a better quality point before recording your position.

This quality filter ensures that every point in your recorded route meets a minimum reliability standard, keeping those frustrating “phantom detours” to a minimum.

4. Motion detection: Using all your phone’s sensors
The challenge: GPS alone doesn’t know whether you’re actually moving or standing still. You might be waiting at a traffic light, but GPS drift can make it look like you’re wandering around. GPS drift consists of small variations in reported position even when stationary.

Our solution: Map My Tracks doesn’t rely solely on GPS. We also tap into your device’s accelerometer and other motion sensors to detect whether you’re genuinely moving. If these sensors indicate you’re stationary, we can intelligently pause recording or filter out GPS drift, preventing those telltale “blobs” of accumulated false movement when you’re actually standing still.

By combining GPS data with motion sensing, we create a more complete picture of your activity that’s true to real world movement.

The result: Tracks you can trust

These four techniques work together seamlessly, processing every GPS signal your phone receives through multiple layers of intelligent filtering. The result is a recorded activity that accurately represents where you went, how far you travelled, and how fast you moved, without the frustrating artefacts that plague unfiltered GPS data.

Whether you’re tracking a competitive race, exploring new trails, or simply recording your daily walks, Map My Tracks gives you the confidence that your data is as accurate as modern GPS technology allows. Because your activities matter, and they deserve to be recorded right.

Ready to experience GPS tracking done right? Download Map My Tracks and see the difference intelligent algorithms make.

COROS athletes, your workouts just got smarter: Automatic sync now available

We're excited to announce that Map My Tracks now supports automatic workout synchronization with COROS devices!

Whether you’re conquering mountain trails with your COROS VERTIX or tracking your daily runs with a PACE series watch, your training data will now seamlessly flow into Map My Tracks without any manual effort.

Expanding your connection options

COROS joins our growing family of supported devices, sitting alongside trusted partners like Wahoo, Garmin, Polar, Apple, Fitbit, and others. This integration means COROS users worldwide can now enjoy the comprehensive tracking and analysis features that Map My Tracks offers, while maintaining their preferred device ecosystem.

Simple setup, automatic results

Connecting your COROS account is straightforward and takes just minutes:

Via the Map My Tracks website:

• Navigate to your account settings
• Select “Connected Devices”
• Choose COROS and follow the authentication prompts

Through the mobile app:

• Open Settings within the Map My Tracks app
• Tap “Device Connections”
• Select COROS and complete the linking process

Once connected, every workout recorded on your COROS device automatically appears in Map My Tracks, complete with all the metrics and data you’ve come to expect.

Why this integration changes everything

Effortless Data Management: No more manual uploads or data entry. Your trail runs, road rides, hiking adventures, and training sessions sync automatically, giving you more time to focus on what matters most – your performance.

Comprehensive Analysis: Combine COROS’s precise GPS tracking and advanced metrics with Map My Tracks’ powerful analysis tools. View your progress over time, compare performances across different activities, and gain deeper insights into your training patterns.

Unified Training Hub: Whether you’re switching between different sports or using multiple devices, Map My Tracks becomes your central repository for all training data. Track your annual mileage, monitor improvement trends, and share achievements with your community – all in one place.

Enhanced Social Features: Your COROS workouts can now be shared with the Map My Tracks community. Inspire others with your mountain conquests, participate in challenges, and connect with fellow athletes who share your passion for outdoor sports.

Cross-Platform Flexibility: Use your COROS device confidence knowing your data integrates seamlessly with Map My Tracks, regardless of whether you access the platform via mobile app or web browser.

Ready to connect?

COROS integration is available now for all Map My Tracks users. Simply head to your settings and connect your COROS account to start experiencing automatic workout synchronization today.

For athletes who demand precision, reliability, and comprehensive tracking, the combination of COROS devices and Map My Tracks creates the ultimate training ecosystem. Your outdoor adventures deserve the best tracking experience – now you have it.

Ready to sync your COROS workouts? Visit your Map My Tracks settings today and connect your account in minutes.

icTrainer now syncs seamlessly with Map My Tracks

We’re excited to announce a powerful new integration: icTrainer app is now fully compatible with Map My Tracks!

Cyclists can now enjoy a streamlined way to log their indoor training sessions on Map My Tracks, unlocking deeper insights and tracking their fitness journey with ease.

Why upload to Map My Tracks?

Map My Tracks lets you monitor all your training, both indoor and outdoor. With this integration, your icTrainer workouts can now:

• Sync automatically: Save time by uploading your completed sessions directly to Map My Tracks.
• Analyze performance: Dive into detailed metrics like heart rate, power output, and cadence trends and peaks.
• Consolidate your training data: Keep all your indoor and outdoor workouts in one place for a complete overview of your progress.

Why use icTrainer?

• Multiple live data (power, heart rate, cadence, left/right balance, core body temperature, muscle oxygen saturation, etc.)
• Real routes, workouts, GPX upload, HRM-training, workout-builder
• Integrated video chat solution for group training
• Free music matching the cadence of a workout
• Two users can train in parallel with one computer
• Integrated web browser to stream movies
• For bike-, rowing-, kayak-, swimmergometers and treadmills
• Can also be used offline

How to connect icTrainer to Map My Tracks

Syncing your accounts is simple and only takes a few steps:

1. 1. Update Your icTrainer App
2. 2. Sign In to Your Accounts
3. 3. Navigate to your profile page
4. 4. Choose Map My Tracks in the Platforms option
5. 5. Authorize the Connection

Take your training to the next level

This integration is part of our commitment to helping cyclists stay motivated, track progress, and achieve their goals. Whether you’re training for your next big race or simply riding to stay fit, combining icTrainer’s immersive indoor cycling experience with Map My Tracks’ performance analytics gives you the tools to succeed.

If you have any questions or run into any issues, our support team is here to help. Reach out to us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Happy riding!

FitnessSyncer Now Supports Syncing Data to Map My Tracks: Easily Centralize Your Outdoor and Fitness

We’re thrilled to announce that FitnessSyncer has expanded its range of supported services to include Map My Tracks!

As a global online outdoor and fitness platform, Map My Tracks is the go-to destination for tracking, sharing, and analyzing your outdoor activities like running, cycling, hiking, and more. With this new integration, FitnessSyncer now allows you to seamlessly sync your activity data from various other platforms directly into Map My Tracks.

What This Means for You

If you’re a FitnessSyncer user, you can now easily send your activity data from other fitness platforms to your Map My Tracks account. This means all your running routes, cycling sessions, hiking adventures, and other fitness activities can now be stored and analyzed within Map My Tracks, giving you a centralized place to manage your outdoor fitness journey.

Key Benefits of This Integration:

1. Centralized Fitness Tracking: Keep all your activity data in one place by syncing information from other platforms directly into Map My Tracks. This makes it easier to analyze your performance and track your progress over time.

2. Enhanced Analytics: With your data centralized in Map My Tracks, you can take full advantage of its advanced tracking and analytical tools to get deeper insights into your outdoor activities.

3. Streamlined Data Syncing: FitnessSyncer automates the process of sending your data to Map My Tracks, eliminating the need for manual transfers and ensuring that your activities are always up-to-date.

4. Customizable Workflows: With FitnessSyncer’s flexible sync settings, you can decide exactly which data you want to send to Map My Tracks, creating a tailored experience that fits your fitness goals.

How to Get Started

Connecting your FitnessSyncer account to Map My Tracks is quick and easy:

1. Sign Up or Log In to your FitnessSyncer account.
2. Connect the services you use to track your activities (e.g., Garmin, Strava, Fitbit) to FitnessSyncer.
3. Add Map My Tracks as a destination under the ‘Services’ tab.
4. Customize your sync settings to specify which data should be sent to Map My Tracks.
5. Enjoy having all your outdoor and fitness data centralized in Map My Tracks, ready for detailed analysis and sharing.

Why This Matters

For fitness enthusiasts who use multiple apps and devices to track their activities, it’s essential to have a central hub where all this data can be stored and analyzed. By enabling the synchronization of data into Map My Tracks, FitnessSyncer empowers you to have a complete view of your outdoor activities in one place. This not only simplifies your data management but also enhances your ability to track your fitness journey effectively.

We’re excited to offer this new feature and can’t wait to see how it helps. Start syncing your data to Map My Tracks today with FitnessSyncer and take full control of your outdoor adventures.

Important policy change: Data retention update for Free users

We want to inform you of an upcoming policy change that will take effect in October 2024. This change is necessary due to the rising costs of hosting and managing data, which have increased significantly over the 17 years that Map My Tracks has been operating.

What’s changing?

Starting in October 2024, full activity data for Free users will only be retained for 12 months meaning that any activity data older than 12 months will be automatically, and permanently deleted.

Why the change?

As Map My Tracks has grown, so has the volume of data we store. The costs associated with hosting and maintaining this data have increased over time, and to continue providing a reliable and high-quality service, we need to adjust our data retention policy.

How to keep your data?

To ensure you don’t lose any of your past activities, we encourage you to upgrade to our PLUS plan. As a PLUS user, you will enjoy unlimited data retention, meaning your activity history will be stored securely without any time limits.

If you choose to upgrade to PLUS after this policy goes into effect, you will not be able to recover activity data deleted under our new policy.

PLUS Benefits Include:
- Unlimited data retention: Never lose your activity history.
- Live tracking: Share your location in real-time with friends and family.
- Goals: Set and track personal goals to keep you motivated.
- Advanced insights: Get in-depth analytics to improve your performance.
- And more: Enjoy a wide range of features, all designed to enhance your Map My Tracks experience.

We understand that your activity data is important to you, and upgrading to PLUS ensures that all your efforts are preserved and accessible whenever you need them.

Thank you for being a valued member of our community. If you have any questions or need assistance upgrading to PLUS, our support team is here to help.

Best regards, 
The Map My Tracks Team