There is nothing more frustrating than being lost and not knowing how you got there. What if you are not looking for a specific building or house, not searching for the shortest route, you just want to return to the starting point in an unfamiliar area. There is an excellent program that will help you do just that – My Tracks.

There are plenty of situations where this program can be useful – bush walks, to be able to walk around the city and return to the hotel, to track the distance you’ve covered on foot, etc. For these purposes you don’t usually need maps of countries and cities.

The program is very simple and easy to use. All you need to do is click “Record track” button and go for a walk. That’s it. Just don’t forget to enable GPS.

To make the program experience better, you should download Google Maps, so your track will be displayed on the map of the area. You don’t have to do it, so if you are in the area with no mobile coverage, or you do not have any data included in your plan, the program will still record your track, but it will be on a white background. In addition you can add notes to the track you are recording.

Thanks to multitasking and unlike the iPhone, My Tracks works at the background and records your movements throughout the trip. I was surprised to find that I walked 22 kilometers in 3 days. Tracks and statistics can be viewed on a computer at home, because My Tracks is perfectly integrated with Google Maps. In addition, the data can be also upload to Google Docs, as well as saved on the memory card of your smartphone, so you can show it to friends and family at a later stage.

You can easy save the route in your maps and make it available to everyone right from your phone. For example, my trip can be viewed here.

Integration with other applications and systems is one of the most important features of mobile applications. It is unfortunate that only a few developers understand this. My Tracks is one of the applications that demonstrate how it should be done

I haven’t really touched on the settings and options available, but you should be able to check it all yourself.

I highly recommend this application to everyone, especially if you are traveling or walking a lot.

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