There are settings to control the visibility of your race visualization.  We added the option to set group events unlisted.

We've been asked for this new feature in the race visualization: Short name for points of interest (POI) to improve customizing your tracking maps. 

Now, when you're looking at a race visualization, you'll be able to see the short name in the map, sidebar, and elevation chart. You can even select a background color for the short name. The full name of the POI remains visible in the sidebar as additional information. Edit the POI settings in the map settings of your tracking map. 

Read more about the options to customize the visualization of your races in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/basic-features-of-racemap-tracking-map

We added the option to set by default whether the time slider show 

• the duration from the start time of the event or 
• the absolute time of the day. 

Basic settings >> Time slider

Read about all options of the interactive race visualization: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking  

We added the new magnetic track feature. Now, there are three options pinning flags to the track. Each option affects how dots are moving in the interactive map in relation to the shadowtrack.

The race recap shows the grey flag (001) moving on the track. The white flag (006) lost the racecourse and comes back to the track 200 m behind 001. Watch this scene with differently pinned flags to the track.

• Magnetic (NEW): Within a 50 m distance from the track the flags are pinned to the track. Geodata with 50+ m distance is shown as raw coordinates. The grey flag moves smoothly through the curve (pinned to the track) and the white flag is shown beside the track (raw data).
• None: The visualization shows the coordinates as raw data. Disadvantage: Due to +/- 25 m accuracy of GPS devices, the locations don't precisely match the track and the grey flag cuts the curve.
• Always: The visualization always shows all coordinates on the track. For that reason, the grey flag moves smoothly through the curve. But the white flag is pinned to the track, also. It is not possible to see that the white flag lost track.

In map settings, you can select your preferred option as default for your tracking map.

There are events without elevation gain such as motorboat races, open water swimming, or even city marathons. You can now use the elevation diagram as a line showing the progress without ups and downs. The 1D-feature makes competitions with laps more understandable for spectators.

Swimming contest with 1D line and with "normal" elevation chart below. 

Sample event: https://racemap.com/player/21_22-WAOWS-race5

You set up the elevation chart in the tracking map section of your basic tab. Select 1D progress line.

We were asked for the option to add a specific time when loading a tracking map. The visualization will start the replay at this timestamp. Sample URL: https://racemap.com/player/100km-duathlon_2018-05-05#time=2018-05-05T09:46:35Z&selected=5ba8e19076addf2fa3adc1f0

All information on how to target the parameters 

• selected participants and points of interest, 
• set filters
• time of the event 

when loading the race visualization: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/iframe#dynamic-links

We were optimizing and improving the existing functionality of Racemap tracking platform. But we also did not forget to prepare new features. Meet the new options to adjust the info tabs and to hide the distance marker, which is useful for racecourses with multiple laps. 

The features for customizing the visualization are restructured and put together in the basic tab of your event settings which makes Racemap tracking platform even more convenient and efficient.

For many use cases, there is a strong need to show additional information of participants such as age group, nationality, gender, and much more. Now you can flexibly add participant tags and filter athletes in the tracking map. The filter feature makes live tracking even more exciting and comprehensible for the spectators.

Adjust the filter tags for your event easily in the map settings of the basic tab.

Options for flexibly adding filter tags to your participants' data:

• automatically import tags with API: https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics
• upload tags with local CSV file: https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-data-from-csv
• manually add tags in the participant tab of your event 
  

You can now select which parameter is shown in the flag. This selection is visible by default in the visualization of your sports event. Basic settings of your event, go to map settings.

All options to customize your interactive tracking map: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/basic-features-of-racemap-tracking-map

We were asked for the option of other maps than from mapbox. You can now paste the URL of the external map source for your tracking map. Open the dialogue in the map editor under external layers.