App for tracking tours

[chrisinplymouth]

Hi .... can anyone recommend an app for tracking your tour. My wife used Track my Tour last time but the mapping bit wasn’t very good and only you can see it.

I looked at one called Polar Steps but that had very mixed reviews.

ideally it would track your progress on a map, be able to store text and photos and let others see where you are.

TIA. Chris

 

[MisterB]

sounds like a great idea. would be good for us too !

 

[Allanm]

Doesn’t Google do something like that? I’m sure I read about it somewhere.

 

[OldAgeTravellers]

We used to use Autoroute on a small EePc on the dashboard which would track every movement and worked totally offline. But MS stopped supporting it and I then had activation problems. But if you have a small computer with a solid state drive it is fantastic. If you can find it for not a lot of money it is worth a try. It still works on my home PC and I still use it for route planning.
I tried PolarSteps but found it very intrusive and required Internet for the maps. I also felt that they were stalking me. I really don't like social media at all.
If I could find something like Autoroute I would jump at it.
Keep us posted on what you find.

 

[Lenny HB]

Like Steve we use Autoroute with a GPS receiver, you can get CD's on eBay for £12 make sure you get Autoroute 2013 mapping is a bit out of date but good enough.

Examples from our last trip.

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[SMB]

I use Polarsteps and I have had no problems with it. I've actually met up with some other users of it who were recommended by a friend and you can see their travel log as well if you add them as a friend. Got some good tips for places to visit.

 

[chrisinplymouth]

Thanks all..... I think I will try Polar Steps as it was a simple app that I wanted. The internet is no problem as we normally travel with the mifi box on to stream radio. I like the idea of the kids being able to monitor it.

 

[Richard Birkett]

+1 for Polarsteps. The printed books are great too.
Richard

 

[OldAgeTravellers]

Like Steve we use Autoroute with a GPS receiver, you can get CD's on eBay for £12 make sure you get Autoroute 2013 mapping is a bit out of date but good enough.

Hi Lenny,
Have you managed to get past the activation problem? Whot do you run Autoroute on while travelling?
When my EeePC failed I put an SSD in my little Tosh Netbook bu Autoroute detected a change of machine and wouldn't activate.
You could message me to not clutter this thread.
Steve

 

[Jewellbags]

my son is currently in india as part of a three month tour. The polar steps is a great way for you to share photos and locations with some narrative (like an on line journal) but i also use the google maps "share location" feature so that i can see exactly where he is (assuming he has 4g) when ever i need to

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[ceejayt]

I use RV companion. You can track both sites and places you visit on the way. Been using it for several years

 

[Captain Pants]

I’ve used Mapquest, does the job but restricted to 26 locations, hence why this map is incomplete.

 

[TheBig1]

If you have location turned on on your phones, Google can be used to track your routes and locations going back years. Ideal to prove that you were somewhere on a particular time and date. And it needs no programming or payments, it just works in the background

fascinating to go back over what you did in previous months/years/days

passed through that pretty village that you can't remember the name of? simply check the route you took

 

[ceejayt]

Another great app for planning is road trip planner.

 

[two]

I use a GPS device and save tracks as .GPX files. You can then load them to many different mapping systems to print it on a map. At least I'm not advertising my whereabouts on the web.

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[Jo662]

I also use Polarsteps,a good app