We’ve rolled out a small but beautiful update to Safemap aimed at making your (your team, your clients) experience smoother and clearer:

What’s new:

• Simpler numbers:
  We now show only one digit after the comma — less noise, more clarity.
  
  
  
  
  
• Richer hover info:
  Get more details when hovering over map elements.
  
  
  
  
  
• Mute button for alerts & notifications:
  Control what you hear without leaving the map.
  
  
  
  
  
• Participant-specific links:
  Quickly jump to a participant using a URL, e.g.:
  https://racemap.com/safemap/demo?selectedStarterId=690d085891613392d58c0077

These changes are all about giving you a cleaner, more focused view while staying in control of notifications. 

Read all about Safemap in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/safemap

Happy GPS (safe)mapping! 

Join our workshop on methods and systems to work with live GPS data for races: Feb 10–12, 2026 · Dresden.

Reserve my spot

We’re hosting a three-day workshop focused on practical workflows for using real-time location data at complex sports events. You’ll learn how to build stronger services, improve operations, and reduce risks — and you’ll leave with solutions you can directly offer to your clients.

Attendees can also unlock up to €5,000 in Safemap savings. Seats are limited. Register for €125/seat.

All details about our workshop: https://go.racemap.com/workshop-26 

Upgrade your skills, expand your services, and strengthen your business:

• Practice with real data & demos: Work hands-on with live GPS streams, API integrations, and Safemap setups — guided by experts.
• Win new business: Develop ready-to-sell live-tracking and safety solutions that directly expand your service portfolio.
• Grow your network: Connect with experienced operators, exchange proven workflows, and discover faster, smarter ways to run events successfully.

We’re excited to introduce the latest improvements across Predictive Live Tracking, Safemap, and enhancements that support you using RACEMAP platform in a scalable manner - all designed to make your race management smarter, faster, and more intuitive. 

Predictive Live Tracking

Better reads. Better predictions. We’ve improved how RACEMAP processes timing data by expanding support for multiple read sources. With more timing systems being used in predictive tracking, this enhancement ensures higher compatibility and more accurate predictions across events. 

Velocity insights for accepted reads. We now include velocity as an additional parameter when analyzing accepted reads. This gives organizers deeper insight into athlete movement and improves the precision of predictive live tracking. 

Tracking Platform 

More stable event duplication: We’ve made the event duplication workflow more robust to ensure faster and more reliable setup of new events based on your templates.

Enhanced Role Management & Collaboration: User role handling for event settings has been upgraded—making collaboration smoother and more intuitive. 

Improved Borrower Range Editing: Tracker Management now allows easier and more reliable borrower range adjustments, streamlining the setup process for loaner devices. If you operate with your own hardware, you can now easier rent out your GPS trackers directly through the platform. 

Safemap Enhancements 

Safemap receives a significant round of usability and clarity improvements:

Adjustable protected zones: Configure the protected zone size individually for each split or POI for more precise safety management. 

Refined chart layout: A cleaner, clearer layout highlights the most important information at a glance. 

Participant sorting by progress: Quickly identify who is ahead and monitor progression trends in real time. 

Marker color indicators: Enhanced color coding improves participant differentiation on the map. 

Read all details about Safemap in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/safemap

Users can now remotely update Queclink GL320 GPS trackers to the latest firmware version R01A13V03_R10A02V03 using the Start Firmware Update command in RACEMAP Tracker Management.

Managing many GPS devices? RACEMAP tracking platform helps scale and streamline your operations. Full documentation available here: https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management

What if you can monitor risk and safety of endurance races with fewer people, faster detection, and less logistical friction? Current event safety setups are often expensive, fragile, and heavily dependent on staff and manual observation. 

Explore the live demo: Open the interactive Safemap in the browser https://racemap.com/safemap/demo

We have just released Safemap, which changes all that. Safemap is a browser-based decision-support dashboard that surfaces the information that matters — for leaner operations, faster reactions, and improved participant safety.

Before launch, we refined Safemap throughout the season in collaboration with leading endurance event organizers — including Race Across Series — for proven usability in long-distance, multi-day races. 

Create your Safemap

Book 20-min onboarding call

Not sure if Safemap fits your race setup? Need help on configuration? We guide you 1:1 through a 20-minute video call. Schedule here:
https://calendar.app.google/stbuy8G6FhaLAWHa6 

Documentation

All functions, workflows & configuration options are detailed here:
https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/safemap 

Key capabilities

Core features

• Alerts: SOS, crash, lost track, no movement, power-off, low battery
• Structured alert workflow with clear responsibility & audit trail
• Real-time collaboration across multiple operators & shifts

Technical highlights

• Decentralized data generation, works with long-autonomy GPS trackers
• Browser-based — no software installation, no coding needed
• Processes geodata & device reports

Advantages

• Never gets tired, always objective — continuous automated monitoring
• Seamless coordination across teams and multi-day events
• Awareness without manual supervision

The Monitor add-on is no longer available from Jan 2026.

Join our free 45-min webinar and see how to set up the RACEMAP Tracking App in minutes — and use it across your race season. 

Join the webinar

These enhancements have been released for you. The event list now makes navigation easier.  

1. Paste the event ID in the search field of the event list to directly open the event settings. 
   
2. Simply hover over groups & stage events ... 
   
   ... to expand them and directly access each stage separately. 
   

We’ve rolled out several improvements you will love across RACEMAP tracking platform to enhance stability, device support, and usability. 

Tracker Management

New Tracker Support: Queclink GL30MG

With the LK106 reaching end-of-life, we’ve introduced support for the new GL30MG tracker from Queclink. This update not only includes the new tracker type but also a refactored Track Air protocol to better handle location data from GL30MG and other GL-series devices, including partial support for configuration messages. If you want to extend your tracker fleet with the latest Queclink device, RACEMAp is prepared.

Shortcut to RACEMAP Orga App

The Tracker Management now links directly to RACEMAP Orga App on both the App Store & Google Play, making app access simpler and faster.

Find all information about RACEMAP tracker management in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management

Safemap Improvements 

The time of our monitor add-on ends soon because our new Safemap is so much better.

• Alerts like SOS/Crash are now clearly distinguished from notifications such as Off Track.
• You can now mute notifications independently for more flexible alert handling in the field.

Event List Rework

Improved Setup Flow

Creating Single maps, Safemaps, and Group or Stage events now follows a smoother, more intuitive workflow.

New List-Based Layout

• We replaced the previous tile layout with a clean and structured list design to improve clarity and navigation.
• Better Group Event Visibility: Child events are now easier to view and manage.
• Filtering Tools Added: Quickly find and manage your events with basic filtering options. 

Stability & Maintenance

We’ve invested significant effort into backend reliability, code cleanup, and overall platform stability to ensure Racemap continues to run smoothly during high-activity periods.

With the RACEMAP platform, you can flexibly customize how your tracking map opens — for example, to select specific participants. This is perfect for embedding a reference in your results sections, participant lists, or event highlights. Here is the base tracking map URL for 100km-Duathlon: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018

1️⃣ Select one participant by ID: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018#selected=632c5f976d78777a56e66d38

2️⃣ Select the same participant by bib number: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018#selectedStartNumber=053

3️⃣ Select a participant and hide all other dots: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018#selectedStartNumber=053&hideNonSelected=true

Best practise:

• Hide URLs behind a button or short anchor text, making them cleaner and more user-friendly on your website or in communications 
• Combine different URL parameters to increase the marker size, change the map stype all in one link.

By using these URL parameters, you can create focused tracking links that improve clarity for viewers, whether embedded on your site, in a results section, or shared as direct links.

For full reference, check our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/iframe#url-parameters

RACEMAP is a live tracking platform for professionals in the sports events industry. This release improves usability, reliability, and scalability with focused workflow and stability enhancements - not new specs. We provide a bundle of improvements across predictive tracking, tracker management, Queclink GL3xx socket reliability, and the Safemap (beta). Expect a cleaner predictive tracking UI, clearer reads → shadowtrack mappings, communications fixes for Queclink GL3xx, and practical UX & reliability improvements to Safemap.

Predictive tracking

• Sticky header: Predictive tracking view now pins the main tabs (Status, Readers, ...) so they stay accessible while you scroll and inspect details.
  
  
• Single, switchable chart: We replaced two charts with one chart that lets you swap X & Y axes for faster, clearer comparisons.
  
  
• One read, multiple mappings: A single read can map to multiple locations on the shadowtrack. Mappings that come from the same read are color-linked, so you instantly see grouped mappings.
  
  
• Clear mapping states:  
  • Rejected read: Read could not be mapped to a location on the shadowtrack.
  • Unused mapping: The mapping is not used for predictive calculations.

All information about live tracking from timekeeping data in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/prediction

Tracker management (Queclink GL3xx)

We've tuned the communication mechanics between the RACEMAP platform and Queclink GL3xx devices. 

• Better cleanup behavior: Messages sometimes lacked full history so errors weren’t reliably detected. We now pass full message history so cleanup and error checks behave correctly.
• Fixed ACK origin: ACK origin is now passed to messages as a flag, so ACKs are interpreted correctly.
• Socket behavior & reliable online state: We dug into socket / online-state edge cases and addressed that trackers sometimes considered sockets “online” after closure and kept trying to send messages. 

Read all about our dashboard to work with many GPS trackers at a scale: https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management

Safemap (beta)

Thanks to everyone who tested Safemap. Your feedback guided these practical improvements. If you want to try Safemap instead of the Monitor add-on, send us a message and we’ll enable it for your event(s).

• Order: Values used to be compared as strings (causing odd ordering); now numerical order.
  
  
• Low-battery alerts show %: Battery percentage is extracted from alert info and displayed when hovering the alert.
  
  
• Charging state: Devices that are charging are now indicated.
  
  
• Starter state (DNF, DSQ, etc.) is shown so you can, for example, ignore alerts from finished starters.
  
  
• Chart zoom persists: Zoom level no longer resets on every re-render; zoom state is stored so the view remains stable.
• (Un)Lock “follow path”: Added a lock/unlock for map and chart follow behavior. When unlocked, the map resets to the starter’s current position; when locked you can hover the chart without the map snapping back.
  
  

Bug fixes & polish

Thanks for reporting these — many small but important fixes went out:

• Fix: time selector in the tracker chart.
• Fix: batch GPX download failing when one file in the batch is empty. 
• Misc: various stability and usability improvements across Predictive Tracking, Monitor, and Safemap.