Tracks: recording and managing tour trips

Tracks let you record everything worth remembering from a trip: where you went, how fast, and how long it took. You can share them with others, use them as safety references for future navigation, or import tracks from elsewhere to help plan a route through unfamiliar waters.

Recording a track

To start recording, tap the record button . It immediately begins tracking your position, and the button switches to a red circle to show it's active. Tap it again to pause, and tap once more to resume right where you left off.

One useful detail: any marker or photo you add while a track is recording gets automatically linked to that track, and when you share the track later, you'll have the option to include all of those linked markers and photos too.

The track info box

While a track is recording, a new section appears in the GPS info box, showing, from left to right, the track's total length, its average speed, and its total time so far. Tap this box at any point to jump straight to the track's full info page.

The track pop-up

Tap anywhere along a track on the chart, and a pop-up window opens with a quick snapshot of that point.

From here, you can activate the track for navigation or open its full info page (you can also reach the same info page from the "User Data" tab on the Search page).

The pop-up itself shows the track's name at the top (for example, "B423 Savannah to Titusville"), followed by the distance and direction of the point you tapped relative to your current GPS position, along with the corresponding mile marker if you're navigating US waterways. Below that, you'll see the depth, time, and date recorded at that exact point. Depth data only appears here if you had an active Wi-Fi connection to your boat's depth instrumentation while recording.

The track info page

This is where you manage everything about a saved track.

From here you can:

• open Track settings to edit the name, description, color, and visibility;

• view the track's duration, including total distance and total time;
• open Route Explorer for deeper analysis of the track (this requires an active Aqua Map Master subscription);
• open the Depth page to view a depth graph, if the track has depth data attached. From here you can also delete specific portions of the track;
• open the Speed page to view a speed graph, if speed data is available, also with the option to trim portions of the track.

The bottom menu gives you a set of core actions, as follows.

• Share the track in GPX or KMZ format, via GEC Account, email, or other apps. See the sharing page for details.
• Center the map on the track, closing the info page and zooming in. On the Depth or Speed graph pages, this centers the map on whatever exact point the slider is currently pointing to.
• Activate the track for navigation, just like you would a route. Once active, this button switches to a stop button , and navigating a track works the same way as navigating a route, with dummy waypoints automatically generated along the way to guide you.
• Reverse the track's direction, swapping start and end and recalculating all track information accordingly. This option isn't available while you're actively navigating or recording the track.
• Duplicate the track, creating an identical copy automatically set to a white color. Also unavailable while navigating or recording.
• Delete the track permanently.

Depth and speed graphs

Both the Depth and Speed pages share the same bottom menu, letting you:

• center the map on the track at the exact point matching the graph's cursor position.
• cut or split the track. Tapping this opens a choice: delete everything from the cursor to the end, delete everything from the cursor to the start, or split the track into two at that point. Splitting creates a new track with an "_X" suffix, the original keeps everything from the selected point onward, while the new one holds everything before it. All track data is recalculated either way.

One important warning here: this action can't be undone, so it's worth duplicating the track first if you want to keep the original intact.