Creating a New Track

What is a Track?

A Track records your movement on the map as a line. Tracks are useful for documenting patrols, trails, monitoring routes, or any path you want to save and review later. Tracks let you record paths or boundaries while moving through the landscape. They are useful for mapping trails, rivers, borders, or patrol routes.

Similarly to observations, tracks are associated with the project they are created in.

What is expected when creating a track?

CoMapeo records this with device permission to access location information all the time.

While recording at track additional information is displayed

Track in progress is indicated buy a blue dashed line on the map
Recording indicator with elapsed time and distance label attached to your position on the
Recording indicator with elapsed time is added to the tracks tab

👣 Step by step

Step 1: Open the Tracks tab

👉🏽 More: The first time this feature is used, Android will request a change of location permission to use the feature. The app may ask for GPS permission.
Go to 🔗 Common Solutions - Device permission for CoMapeo Mobile to learn more**.**

Step 2: Tap Start Track to begin recording your path.

Step 3: As you move, CoMapeo will draw a line on the map along the way.
The track will continue to be recorded while you use other features simultaneously on CoMapeo, use other apps, and even blocking screen to conserve battery.

💡 Tip: Use the tab on the bottom to navigate between tools to create or review observations while recording a track.

👉🏽 More: All observations collected while a track is being recorded will be linked to the track for easy identification when reviewing .

Step 4: When complete, reopen the Tracks tab and tap Stop Track.

Step 5: Select a the category that best describes the what the track represents

Step 6: Add a helpful description and Save

Interrupting a Track

The expected way to finish recording a track is by selecting Stop and Save. However, there are two situations which will trigger an interruption to recording a track.