TrailWatch: Your Hiking Guide 4+
WYNG Foundation
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- Free
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Description
TrailWatch: Your Best Hiking Guide
Hike with a purpose: join us in protecting Hong Kong’s country parks!
TrailWatch is the first smartphone app in Hong Kong that combines conservation with the appreciation for Hong Kong’s country parks.
When you hike with TrailWatch, you can track your hikes in real-time using GPS, and help surveil the countryside by reporting unusual incidents. You can also plan and share your trails, as well as check out routes created by other users.
Enjoy. Share. Protect.
Key Features
Hiking record: Supplement records of your hikes with your own photos and statistics calibrated by the app, including elevation, length, distance, speed, calories burnt etc.
Browse routes: Find feature trails or routes near you and bookmark them—or customise them to suit your needs! Search for featured and routes near you and start tracking, or modify and bookmark them to suit your preferences
Plan routes: Plot routes simply by tapping the start and end points—and the app will map the rest of the trail for you. If you wish, you may personalise the route and add points of interest.
Invite friends: Create a group tracking event and send your TrailWatch friends an invitation! The invitation will contain everything your friends need to know, including route details, where to meet, and so on.
Locate friends: Using internet data, members of a group tracking event can identify the real-time locations of all participants. This means even those who have wandered off course can be located.
Share photos: All photos taken by group members can be automatically uploaded to the group tracking event and shared with all members without making additional settings.
See who finished fastest: The time spent by each individual group member to complete a group tracking event will be published on a list after the event has ended.
Safeguard our trails: Users are encouraged to monitor and protect country parks by reporting unusual incidents during their hikes. “Concrete Path,” a new category of incidents, allows users to report concrete paved walkways along trails.
TrailWatch offers four kinds of maps: the TrailWatch HK Map, TrailWatch Terrain Map, Open Cycle Map, and MapBox Streets Map.
About TrailWatch
TrailWatch is a mobile application and online community that enables individuals, groups and institutions to track their hikes, organise events, share their hiking experiences with other users and help surveil the conditions of Hong Kong’s country parks. Users can also access TrailWatch’s library Creative Commons images for noncommercial use to facilitate education and encourage discussion.
TrailWatch is funded by WYNG Foundation, which was formed in 2011 with the aim of empowering individuals and institutions through education, research and engagement. WYNG Foundation supports platforms for the exchange of information, providing opportunities to acquire, exchange, disseminate and to apply knowledge to enhance the development of a society that cares.
Privacy Policy
Privacy is an issue that we take very seriously. To learn more about our Privacy Policy, please visit: http://www.trailwatch.hk/?t=privacy
Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
What’s New
Version 3.7
System optimization
Fix known issues
Ratings and Reviews
Great
Great app and I have recorded 46 routes since I used it already. I hope the developer can keep on the development of this app. If it is keeping improving and have more functions I don’t mind to pay for downloaded
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your support!
Many bugs but overall a great app
The trails and information are all very up-to-date and it's great for looking for the perfect trail, but there are many bugs. Search bar doesn't even work and I have to restart the app, some users I search up don't even show up (even though they are accounts made by the people I know) and signing in with your Apple ID makes it so you cannot sign in from any other device other than your own
Developer Response ,
For the search bar, please make sure you are searching in the "Dashboard" tab for your own records, and "Browse" tab from other public routes. For the user search for being friends, please search in the "Friends" tab.
For the Apple ID login, please make sure you have select using your apple id (email) for apple login and not selecting hiding your email while registration. Then, you can login by your email if you use as your apple id. If you have other consideration to change your login in method, please email info@trailwatch.hk for details.
Excellent!!
Please also enhance map’s details. The text in map is too small. And there is no name for start and end point. If the app allow user to edit Start and End point’s names. Or app is able to pick a close area as a start or end points’ names automatically, then it would be very helpful.
App Privacy
The developer, WYNG Foundation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- WYNG Foundation
- Size
- 52.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease battery life.
- Copyright
- © 2014 Wyng Foundation Limited
- Price
- Free