We’re excited to introduce a new release packed with improvements across Safemap, Tracker Management, and Event Settings. This update brings more control, better previews, smarter alert handling, and usability enhancements for teams in the field. 

Safemap updates

🔇 Global alert mute control 

Event hosts now mute alerts & notification sounds globally with a single event-level setting.

Benefits:

• Disable sound alerts by default, to customize Safemap according to events requirements
• Better control for quiet environments or control rooms 
• Faster setup for large-scale events 

👀 Preview mode

Safemap now supports a preview mode to help you validate configurations and showcase the dashboard before activation. The preview shows a realistic Safemap experience using a limited set of participants while preserving full tracking and alert logic.

What’s included:

• Preview available when Safemap is not yet activated 
• Limited number of visible participants 
• Watermark to clearly identify preview mode

Benefits:

• Confirm settings before going live 
• Great for demos and customer acquisition 
• Experience real behavior without full event activation 

🏷️ Tag-based alert suppression

A powerful alert suppression system has been added based on participant tags. Configure Safemap to suppress alerts for participants whose assigned tags match selected key/value rules, such as "finished", "DSQ".

Capabilities:

• Search and manage participant tags in a dedicated table 
• See how many participants are assigned to each tag 
• Visibility why a participant receives no alerts: 
  • Protected zone suppression 
  • Tag-based suppression

Benefits:

• More precise alert control 
• Reduce noise from known or exempt participant groups 
• Better transparency for operations teams 

🎨 Improved track colors

Tracks show their own configured color in Safemap. With this improvement, track overlays are clearer and visually aligned with their intended appearance.

Benefits:

• Better map readability 
• More accurate visual representation 
• Easier distinction between tracks

Tracker Management Updates

📱 Improved mobile usability

We’ve improved column visibility controls for smaller screens such as smartphones. Previously, managing visible columns on mobile devices was difficult. The updated interface now offers a cleaner popup layout with improved height handling and scrolling behavior. 

Good to know: Tracker Management is still primarily optimized for desktop use—but for those managing trackers on the go, this is a welcome upgrade.

Event settings updates

🔑 Endpoint to query keys added

A new API endpoint is now available for querying keys in Event Settings. This expands integration options and makes key management more accessible for connected workflows.

Learn more in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/apps/tracking/keys#apis-for-keys

Track Style Customization

Live tracking with multiple tracks is now more flexible and easier to read for spectators. In the map settings, you can adjust both line width and opacity of each track separately, giving full control over how they appear in the visualization. 

We also replaced the previous color picker library with the Ant Design color picker, unifying track styles across the system for a cleaner, consistent look.  

Track Chart in Safemap: Visual Breaks for Gaps

The track chart in Safemap previously connected all time gaps in GPS data with a line, implying continuous movement that didn’t exist. Now, lines are removed where data is missing, showing tracker data more clear. 

Tracker Management: Configuration Update Progress

Tracker management now records the configuration update process in the message history, giving you more confidence when adjusting tracking configurations across devices to meet specific event requirements. Each configuration change is timestamped and displayed in the tracker message history, making troubleshooting easier if updates fail. 

Tracker Management

Enhancement

To give operators better insight into connectivity of their GPS trackers and carrier behavior, we’ve added new network-related visibility:

• New Network tab in Tracker Management
• Carrier and network information is now also displayed in the track chart

These additions help diagnose connectivity issues faster and support more informed operational decisions such as black listing a specifc carrier during live tracking.

Fix

The tracker management now shows the correct timestamp for when a device goes offline or when the socket connection is closed.

📘 Full details: https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management 

Predictive Tracking

A new column has been added to the Transponders tab, showing the total number of received reads during the race. This makes data completeness and transponder performance easier to assess at a glance. 

📘 Full details: https://docs.racemap.com/prediction 

Safemap

The chart in Safemap now displays elevation data based on the actual received GPS position of the selected tracker, rather than the predefined race course.

Why this matters: If a participant moves off the official course, the elevation information now remains accurate and reflects the real position — improving situational awareness for operators. 

📘 Full details: https://docs.racemap.com/live-tracking/safemap

This release introduces further enhancements across our sports tracking platform, improving tracking reliability and operational confidence.

Safemap: More Context, Better Decisions

Safemap now supports multiple map styles, including satellite view, allowing operators to choose the most suitable visual context for their environment and operational needs.

Tracker Management: More Insight Into Connectivity

Reliable live tracking depends heavily on connection quality — which is impacted SIM reception, modem behavior, and carrier performance. To support operators more effectively, we are rolling out a series of improvements that provide deeper insight into connectivity and help debugging potential issues earlier.

With this release:

• Signal strength is now visible for each tracker of the Queclink GL3xx series.
  
• The chart has been extended with network-related information.
  

These enhancements give operators clearer visibility into connection quality and form the foundation for upcoming reliability improvements. 

This is the first step in a broader effort where we’ll continue to introduce tools and capabilities designed to improve tracking stability — including closer integration and collaboration around our dedicated M2M SIM cards.

We’ve released new improvements across the RACEMAP sports tracking platform, focused on flexibility, usability, and clarity.

Sponsor Logo Add-on Enhancement

The Sponsor Logo add-on has been reworked and now supports multiple sponsor logos per map, giving organizers more flexibility in sponsor visibility.

Qualified users are invited to test this enhancement for free. If you’re interested, let us know — we’d appreciate your feedback to help us fine-tune the feature.

Safemap Usability Improvements

We’ve also introduced several small but impactful updates to Safemap to improve overall usability and intuitive interaction, including:

• Sticky tabs for charts and information
• Minor UI and detail refinements for smoother navigation

These updates are now live on the RACEMAP platform. More enhancements are coming soon.

Join us for three days of hands-on work and real demos around sports GPS live tracking, tracker fleet operations, and event risk monitoring with Safemap. Small group, experienced partners, practical focus, and direct access to the RACEMAP team. 

Details & registration

 🎟️ Register now: Limited to 40 seats 
💰 Early-bird fee until Jan 4: €125 per seat
💶 Claim up to €5,000 in savings on Safemap: Special workshop offer

Safemap

Progress Values

Progress values are now displayed more intuitively. Decimal values are shown only when the value is smaller than 10; for values of 10 and above, they are rounded to the nearest integer.

Alert Descriptions

When hovering alerts, the durations now show minutes (rounded) and, where appropriate, hours. Seconds are no longer displayed, making the duration easier to read.

Resolved Alerts 

Resolved alerts are now consistently shown in the map and chart in a greyed-out style.

Map Interaction 

You can now click an alert icon to fly directly to its position on the map.

Tracker Management 

Improved Column Selection 

The column-selection modal has a new design with a search field. Columns are now grouped, and you can search through them for easier management. 

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