On a trip

Where is everyone?

Your kin show as dots with names. Swipe the bottom panel up for a row of everyone, nearest first: tap a name to see them on the map with distance, direction and climb. Tracker radios (kin carrying a radio instead of the app) show with a 📟.

The color of a dot tells you how fresh their position is:

Someone off the edge of the screen? A bubble at the edge points to them (Map layers › People off screen).

Tap a person for Ping (asks their phone for a fresh position), Message, and Terrain (the ups and downs between you).

Messages

Tap Messages on the right. Choose who it's to: Everyone, one person (private), or a 📟 tracker (it shows on the radio's screen). The quick buttons send common messages; you get 3 seconds to Undo.

Under each message you sent:

• ✓ sent: it left your phone.
• ✓✓ got it: Mom, Dad: their phones received it. For a tracker, ✓✓ delivered means its radio got it.

- not sent in red: no internet and no radio at that moment. Try again when you have one.

With no internet but a radio connected, messages go by radio ("Message (by radio)" in the box; keep them short).

Marking and sharing places

• Mark here (bottom) saves where you're standing as a waypoint and asks for a name.
• Long-press the map to drop a pin anywhere, then Save to keep it, Send to share it with the group, or Rally here.
• Find searches peaks, springs, roads and your own waypoints, even offline.

Places your group shares show as blue pins. Tap one to save it, or More › Hide to take it off your map (Map layers › Shared places shows hidden ones again). Shared pins fade away after a week.

Your waypoints are in Find (with an empty search box): filter, sort, put them in folders, or Export GPX.

Rally point: "everyone come here"

On any pin or waypoint, tap Rally here, name it ("Camp", "Truck") and send. Every phone in the group shows a 🚩, and every tracker radio shows it on its screen with the distance (and direction once moving), for 3 hours.

Anyone can clear it: Group › Radios shows the current rally with Clear.

Bearings: find something you can see or hear

Smoke on a ridge, an elk, a shout in the trees:

1. Tap Bearing (bottom). Hold the phone flat and point its top at the thing. If it says Compass unsure, wave the phone in a figure 8 first.
2. Name it (Smoke, Elk) and tap Take bearing. A dashed red line goes out from you, on everyone's map.
3. Take a second bearing on the same target from another spot at least 100 m to the side, or have someone else in the group take one.

Where the lines cross, a 🎯 appears. Tap it for how sure it is, and to Save, Send or Rally here.

Bearings disappear after 2 hours. To remove them sooner: the 🎯's More › Remove bearings, or the ✕ on the target in the Bearing panel.

Terrain and 3D

• Terrain on a person, pin or waypoint draws the elevation profile between you and it. A straight line, not a route.
• 3D (top right) tilts the map into real terrain with your kin, trackers and bearings on it. Drag with two fingers to tilt.
• The satellite button switches photos on and off.

Recording a trip

Record trip saves your track until you End trip. Ending asks whether to End & export a GPX file for other apps. Your everyday trail (the last 6 hours) shows as a line; turn it off or clear it in Map layers and the bottom panel.

No signal

Everything on the map keeps working offline: maps, GPS, your waypoints, search, terrain, 3D. With a radio paired, positions and messages keep flowing between your group's radios (the RADIO light is green, NET isn't). Without internet or a radio, things you send wait for you to try again.

Next: Radios and trackers.