Embark on your adventures with confidence using Geo Tracker, the ultimate GPS tracking app designed for explorers and travelers alike. Whether you're hiking through rugged terrains, cycling along scenic routes, or navigating through unfamiliar cities, Geo Tracker is your perfect companion. Compatible with Open Street Maps and Google, this app caters to all your outdoor and travel needs, allowing you to record your GPS tracks, analyze detailed statistics, and share your experiences with friends effortlessly.
Geo Tracker offers a multitude of features to enhance your journey:
- Navigate back to your starting point with ease, ensuring you never get lost in unknown areas.
- Share your routes with friends, allowing them to follow in your footsteps.
- Import routes from GPX, KML, or KMZ files to explore paths shared by others.
- Mark significant or interesting waypoints along your journey.
- Locate specific points on the map by entering their coordinates.
- Showcase your adventures with vibrant screenshots on social networks.
With Geo Tracker, you can view your tracks and the surrounding areas using detailed maps from OSM or Google, as well as satellite imagery from Google or Mapbox. This ensures you have the most comprehensive view of your surroundings, no matter where you are in the world. The maps you access are cached on your device, allowing offline access for a period, which is particularly effective with OSM maps and Mapbox's satellite imagery. Recording and analyzing track statistics requires only a GPS signal, with internet connectivity needed solely for downloading map images.
Enhance your navigation experience with the app's driving mode, where the map automatically rotates to align with your direction of travel, making navigation intuitive and straightforward. Geo Tracker can continue recording your tracks in the background, though this may require specific settings adjustments on your device. The app is optimized for power efficiency, ensuring your phone's battery lasts throughout your day's adventures. An economy mode is also available, which you can enable within the app settings.
Geo Tracker provides comprehensive statistics on your journeys, including:
- Total distance and recording duration.
- Maximum and average speed.
- Time and average speed while in motion.
- Minimum and maximum altitude, as well as altitude changes.
- Vertical distance, ascent, and climbing speed.
- Minimum, maximum, and average slope.
Additionally, the app offers detailed charts for speed and elevation data, giving you a deeper insight into your performance.
Your recorded tracks can be saved in GPX, KML, and KMZ formats, making them compatible with other popular applications such as Google Earth or Ozi Explorer. Rest assured, your tracks are stored locally on your device and are not transmitted to any external servers.
Geo Tracker is committed to user privacy and does not generate revenue through ads or personal data. If you wish to support the ongoing development of this app, you can make a voluntary donation directly within the application.
To ensure optimal GPS performance with your smartphone, consider these helpful tips:
- Allow some time for the GPS signal to be acquired before starting your tracking.
- Restart your smartphone and ensure you have a clear view of the sky, free from obstructions like tall buildings or dense forests.
- Be aware that GPS reception can vary due to factors such as weather, season, satellite positioning, and areas with poor GPS coverage.
- Enable "Location" in your phone settings.
- Set "Date & Time" to automatic in your phone settings, including the automatic time zone, to prevent delays in acquiring a GPS signal due to incorrect time settings.
- Disable airplane mode in your phone settings.
If these tips do not resolve your GPS issues, consider uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Remember, Google Maps utilizes not only GPS data but also data from surrounding Wi-Fi and mobile networks to enhance location accuracy.
For more solutions to common issues and frequently asked questions, visit the Geo Tracker website at https://geo-tracker.org/faq/?lang=en.
