Live tracking colours (ahead vs behind)

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Antonio Ruiz

• March 09, 2021 19:19

Today i loaded a route and followed it.

I sent the tracking link to myself.

In the map i see the loaded route and a dot with an arrow (my location and direction). The route was all red.

In other apps you usually see the loaded route in one color and what you've ridden so far in a different colour.

Say loaded route in red and what you've done already in green or blue. If it is a simple straight line maybe it does not matter but if it is a very loopy route i would like my mates to know what i've ridden and not only where i am

 

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  Ali

  • March 10, 2021 08:13

  Hi Perchera, thank you for your input once again. Yes, this is the planned improvement to distinguish the traversed route and the actual route. We are working on consistency across platform and route color being one of them.

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  Tommy Kline

  • November 23, 2021 21:08
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  Ali, or Hammerhead team, any update on this? It's been 8 months since Ali mentioned it was in the works.
  
  I finally got a SIM to start testing Live Tracking and it does work as well as find my friend from Apple. The tracking seems to be stable and function well but there is no course information, no lines showing where the user has ridden, just a dot of where the user currently is. The route information is important for a few reasons, 1) to help anyone watching the link understand the direction you're moving(are you getting closer to them or further) without having to watch for several 30 second updates. 2) when a user looses service it's hard to understand what's going on when all you have is a dot, if you have previous route information you can see that they just entered a canyon or something else where they might lose service. Really hoping some of these improvements can be made, otherwise we may as well just use built in phone tracking apps.

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  Tommy Kline

  • February 09, 2022 05:31

  @Ali, any idea if we'll get to see route info on LiveTracking? Thank you!

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  Ali

  • February 09, 2022 11:52

  Hi Tombo, Sorry that the priorities for this year have changed, although this still exists in our plans. I agree that it would be great to be able to see more on the live tracking, but we plan to do make further refinements later in the year.

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