We’ve made generating QR codes easier than ever! This new API feature not only simplifies the process but also scales seamlessly when interacting with participants using the RACEMAP App or your custom app.

With the following API route, you can automatically generate QR code images for specific keys:
https://racemap.com/api/starters/actions/generate_key_qrcode?key=[KEY]

Just replace [KEY] with the key you want to generate a QR code for. For example, to create a QR code for the passcode "6G615L" use this URL:
https://racemap.com/api/starters/actions/generate_key_qrcode?key=6G615L

This API returns a QR code image, ready to embed or display in your applications such as email, newsletter, dashboard, etc. ... making it perfect for streamlining participant interactions at scale.

More about the usage of keys: https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/tab-keys

We understand that load consumption is a key cost factor for RACEMAP tracking platform. To give you more control and visibility, we've launched the loads API, enabling you to retrieve hourly load data for specific endpoints, such as map, current API or times API, over a defined time period. With the loads API, you can automatically track your load consumption.

Access the loads API directly from the analytics section in your event dashboard.

For more details, refer to our https://docs.racemap.com/data-export-from-racemap/loads-api.

We’ve added the gpxURL parameter to our Starters API to provide you with even more flexibility for automation. This new feature allows you to easily download the recorded track of a specific tracking device within the event's start & end times.

Learn more about our Starters API here: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/participants 

We are excited to announce a powerful update to our tracking platform: the message dashboard. This new feature gives you greater flexibility and control over your GPS trackers by allowing you to create, edit, and manage your own commands. 

After extensive development, we’re thrilled to provide an easy-to-use solution for composing and managing messages tailored to your needs. With this update, you can:

• Create your own commands for your GPS trackers.
• Manage and edit your commands easily.
• Use command templates to streamline messaging for your devices, even from external solutions.

This new capability enhances your experience with our tracker management, giving you more control over the communication with your GPS devices.

For more details, visit our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/tracker-management/message_templates

We’ve added a new option for importing participant information using the RACE RESULT simple API. Now, you can import participants along with the App-IDs of the RACEMAP apps being used for live tracking. This feature provides greater flexibility, especially for stage-based events, by streamlining the participant data import process.

For more details on how to use this option, visit our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics/metadata-import-via-rr#appid  

We’ve enhanced our current API to offer greater flexibility when building your own applications. This update introduces new device parameters, giving you more control and insights for effectively monitoring your GPS trackers:

New device object parameters:

• externalId - A unique identifier for the tracking device, which can be an IMEI, transponder ID, or app ID, depending on the device type.
• battery - Indicates the charge level of the device as a percentage, allowing you to monitor the autonomy of your devices.
• online - Displays the connection status with the RACEMAP server by checking if there's an active socket connection and evaluating the time since the last message was received.
• lastLocationGpsFix - Shows whether the device had a GPS fix when recording the latest coordinate, providing insight into the accuracy of the tracking data.
• lastLocationAt - The timestamp in UTC when the latest coordinate was recorded. 

These enhancements empower you to create more robust and responsive applications with direct access to critical device information. Learn more about the current API in our documentation https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/current#device-object

Our latest release brings a series of improvements that elevate your Racemap experience, focusing on data APIs, tracker management, and synchronization of participant data.

Enhanced data APIs

Our data APIs now provide the location data from your GPS devices, independent of the settings in the tracking map such as interpolation interval and live delay. This allows for greater flexibility in fine-tuning the data API and visualizing of the same tracking map and for higher accuracy when detecting a device in a geofence. For more details, please refer to our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api

Participant data synchronization

The participants tab now displays the participants synchronized from RACE RESULT with an icon, making it easier to identify and manage them. Learn how to import participant data from RACE RESULT to your Racemap event through 

• List import https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics/metadata-api#race-result-lists 
• Simple API https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics/metadata-import-via-rr 

Tracker management enhancements

• Direct track chart access: We've added the option to access the track chart directly from the tracker table.
• Saved table settings: Your table settings in the tracker management are now saved, so when you return, you'll find your previous settings intact.

Additionally, with the latest release, the maintenance panel in groups & stages appears only when working with a custom tracking app. If you are not using a custom app, the panel remains hidden, providing a cleaner and more intuitive interface. https://docs.racemap.com/how-to-use-live-tracking/multi-event-map

We are thrilled to introduce a powerful solution to enhance your testing capabilities: Real-time replay of recorded GPS data from a previous event. This feature provides you with continuous access to live data from an event you know well, eliminating the need for repeated tests and offering unparalleled convenience.

Possible use cases

• Testing API for 3rd party applications: Our solution offers a unique approach to test API queries seamlessly. Whether integrating with video production or data feed requirements, you can now validate and optimize your API queries efficiently. 
• Optimizing Racemap settings for yearly events: Preparing a yearly event and want to optimize your Racemap settings? Use the solution for fine-tuning your configurations to improve your event-tracking experiences. 

Enjoy the flexibility to make real-time adjustments to settings during an event. This includes changes in shadowtrack, adding or removing splits, modifying split locations etc.

Sample real-time loop

• Explore our 100km Duathlon from 2018 in an infinite real-time loop: https://racemap.com/player/100KmDuathlon2018_API-liveSample 
• API with live data such as speed, or distance to go etc. to develop your own video overlay solution: https://racemap.com/api/data/v1/6336f41309be310001a5894b 
• Utilize our API with detections at geofences for your timing solution: https://racemap.com/api/data/v1/6336f41309be310001a5894b/times

Interested in optimizing your Racemap settings or exploring API testing solutions? Simply reach out to us https://racemap.com/#contact.

When providing live tracking for events & races in a scalable manner our users work with APIs to import and export participants' information and GPS devices. We now refactored our generic import. We flattened nested objects and now provide to import RACE RESULT lists. 

Read all about our generic import in the documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/api-import-and-export-data/import-basics/metadata-api

Our grabber is a handy tool to poll our live data API and directly show race data in real-time in a browser tab. Use this solution to seamlessly provide real-time participant data such as speed, distance to go, or gap for your video productions. No coding skills needed.

With the new version of the grabber, you can now set 

• Multiple deviceIds respectively startNumbers to show specific participants only. (Instead of showing all participants or only one.)
• The number of devices in lead showLeaders eg. in order to show data of the five leaders only. 

Download files and all information about our grabber tools to easily extract live data from our API are summarized in our documentation: https://docs.racemap.com/data-api/grabber.