Track The Planet

The concept

We live on a great planet, a planet we must explore. The Track The Planet initiative is to inspire you to explore our beautiful planet by providing a platform to share tracks, photos and stories. For each place on our planet, we monitor if it has been explored and by whom. Participants are therefore called explorers and can compete to become The Greatest Explorer.

Tracks, photos and stories are sourced by our explorers. You can become an explorer and start uploading your stuff right away, all for free. But if you like to browse through all data without registering first, be our guest! Upgrade to a (paid)  premium membership if you like to use our most advanced features.

While exploring our planet, we cannot emphasize too often to respect our nature and to respect other people: do not get outside designated trails, do not litter, don't be too loud, respect local rules, etc.

The Map

Our goal is to offer the greatest and best accessible archive for tracks, photos and stories. The map gives a top level overview of this archive. It shows a so-called heatmap of all uploaded tracks. Explored areas are colored blue. These grow to white on places that are covered by many tracks.

For each explorer, we keep track of a seperate individual heatmap that shows in purple to white the places he/she explored. The heatmap of any explorer is instantly available, compared to other platforms where heatmaps can only be generated on demand, and often only the one of yourself.

The tracks

A track can be found by pressing  Search or by clicking on some spot on the heatmap. Press  Show to show this track on the map. An animated dashed line shows the complete trajectory. You may notice some gray colored parts in this trajectory; these are "rejected" parts that are unreliable based on specific speed and distance step thresholds. We assume that the explorer did not really traverse those parts, but that temporal GPS reception problems occurred.

At the bottom of the screen, a chart is shown. Pressing will show all available charts. You can select one by clicking on it after which the charts collapse to just the selected one. You will see that the trajectory is colored according to the selected chart. Hover over the chart and click on it to get more details about that specific spot. We have the following charts for you:

• explored
  Diffent colors are used for newly explored parts, parts that were already explored by the explorer of this track, and parts that were already explored by someone else.
• altitude
  The trajectory is colored green/yellow/red depending on the relative altitude of each part.
• speed
  The trajectory is colored green/yellow/red depending on the relative speed of each part.

Only for  premium explorers:

• power
  The trajectory is colored green/yellow/red depending on the applied relative power of each part. The power is computed based on acceleration and altitude profile of each part.
• performance
  The trajectory is colored from yellow to red if the speed is above the previously recorded maximum speed of that part. It is colored from yellow to green if the speed is below the previously recorded maximum speed of that part.
• cadence (if cadence was recorded)
  The trajectory is colored green/yellow/red depending on the relative cadence of each part.
• heart rate (if heart rate was recorded)
  The trajectory is colored green/yellow/red depending on the relative heart rate of each part.

Several icons are plotted on the trajectory (click on an icon to get more details):

• start of the track
• finish of the track
• a mountain peak
• spot where explorer paused
• distance step of {{ (metric ? 10000 : 16093.44 ) | meters:metric }}
• distance step of {{ (metric ? 1000 : 1609.344 ) | meters:metric }}

Several thumbnails (small photos) are plotted on or nearby the trajectory. Click on the thumbnail to get a full-screen photo.

The track details

If you click on the track name, or select a track from  Search, details of the track are shown in various tabs:

• A headline mentions how this track improved the rank of the explorer, or that the rank dropped due to other explorers meanwhile exploring more. The explorer of this track can set the activity type as well as a tag to store if this track was just a workout or a real race. He/she can give a description of this track and add some photos. Although we encourage you to add some great photos, you don't always need to bother about this; we automatically present some applicable photos for each track taken from Google and Panoramio (these photos are under the copyright of their owners)!
• The distance of the track is shown. The total distance is broken down in the part that has newly been explored, was already explored by this explorer, was already explored by others, and was rejected. The total distance is also broken down in the part going down hill, up hill, and flat. Location and time details are shown for the start and the finish of the track.

Only for  premium explorers:

• The altitude at start and finish is shown, as well as the mimium, maximum and average altitude. The total descent and ascent are given, and the net result, i.e., the delta altitude from start to finish. The grade of the steepest down hill (min grade) and steepest up hill (max grade) are shown, and the average grade. Last but not least, a list of relevant climbs is given. For each climb, the 'category' as used in the Tour de France is computed, ranging from Hors Catégorie (the most difficult), then 1, 2, 3 and 4 (the easiest), and for convenience two even lower catergories named 'Moderate climb' and 'Minor climb'. For each climb, more details are given: the distance (from the start), the altitude at the top, the up hill distance, the total ascent and the average grade.
• The maximum speed is shown. Next, the total duration, the average speed and the average pace (in seconds per {{ metric ? 'kilometer' : 'mile' }}) are shown. If the track includes some stops, the total length of these stops is mentioned. In this case, the total non-stop duration and average non-stop speed/pace are shown as well. Two pie charts are shown that depict the distribution of the total duration and speed in any of the 8 directions.
• Various peformance figures are shown, these only apply to cycling.
• Download the track as GPX file, so you can use it on other devices or with other software.

Pricing

Become a  premium explorer to access advanced features for your own tracks and for the tracks of all other explorers. You furthermore support the Track The Planet initiative, so we can spend time to make our offering greater, thank you so much!

Subscribe by PayPal for € 1,99 per month and get the first month for free. Or pay by bank transfer for € 23,88 per year.

Tracky

We recommend the app Tracky to record your tracks. It is available for Android smartphones and tablets. You can easily export and upload recorded tracks to TrackyThePlanet. The app supports TrackMe allowing others to track your position in real-time.

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Become a  premium explorer to access advanced features for your own tracks and for the tracks of all other explorers.

• download any track in GPX format
• charts with your performance per week/month/year, compare it with other periods and study trends
• detailed track information:
• • altitude information like min/max/avg altitude, total descent/ascent, min/max grade
  • list of climbs with their official Tour de France category and many more attributes
  • speed information like min/max/avg speed with and without stops, avg pace
  • unique wind roses that show the durations and average speeds in each direction
  • performance analysis with power zones, cadence zones and heart rate zones
• more choice to analyze and color tracks on the map:
• • by power
  • by relative speed, compared to the fastest explorer
  • by cadence
  • by heart rate

We kept all your data, so you if you upgrade to  premium you will instantly get all advanced features on your previously uploaded tracks as well.

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