We’ve added options to automatically sync data to Map My Tracks from Garmin Connect and Fitbit. With different wearable devices being used across different sports it’s helpful to be able to consolidate the data in one place. A detailed breakdown of your performance helps to keep you on track and achieve your goal. Goals can be set for any sport by distance, duration or activity. Who doesn’t like a goal? Goals were added in 2017 to let you challenge yourself. Every activity uploaded to Map My Tracks can be turned into a video that includes photos, stats and route details - all ready to download, keep or share on social networks. We also added an option to create a beautifully crafted video of your Moments to share with others. heart rate, segments covered, and more, are highlighted on the activity timeline. Moments & Moments VideosĮach activity uploaded to Map My Tracks has its key moments highlighted. That, in turn, fuelled the work on the Social Gallery that helps to show off all the great places that people visit. The Map My Tracks app was updated to include options to take photos and pin photos to your activities. Outdoor activities are not just about how far or how fast you went, it’s also about the memories you make which is why we have gone all in with photos in 2017. Aside for the multitude of mini updates across the year the more notable new features are Photos, Moments, Goals and some exciting work with Augmented Reality. You have been busy with it too, every minute a new activity is uploaded from users around the world.ĭuring that time we have also been busy on your behalf updating the app and website to make Map My Tracks better and better. Across 2017 a total of 6,500,000km have been covered by Map My Tracks users. Go to Settings > Privacy to set up as many as needed.ĭecem2017 - a year in review on Map My TracksĪs we approach the end the year we take a look back on what’s been happening on Map My Tracks in 2017. We would encourage all our users to set up Privacy Zones over their home or place of work if they choose to make their activity public. Their recommendations, and a further set of our own, were implemented on Februand applied to new and established privacy zones. Their research included recommendations to further secure users’ data within a privacy zone to mitigate the risk of exposing the place of interest. who established an algorithm to deduce the place of interest within a privacy zone. We were provided with the details of the issue on Februby Hussain et al. Through research undertaken by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign into fitness tracking social networks like Map My Tracks they uncovered some problems with our initial implementation of privacy zones. That said, when users do choose to make their activity public it’s important that the privacy zone tools we provide do their job to mask their data. The starting point for every user is to keep everything private and only make it public if they choose to do so. So much so that none of the default settings on Map My Tracks force users to make their activity public. We take our responsibility to protect our users’ privacy very seriously. FebruPrivacy zone enhancements for added security