Trail Boss II

There are a couple of ways to do this. You can email or text your current location from the map page: Tap the placemark button ✛ at the bottom left of the map page and select 'Share Your Location'. Choose Email or Text. OR You can use Trail Boss's 'Location Sharing' feature so your spouse will see y...

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Tap the pencil button in the route's Trip Log entry.

There are many web sites devoted to hiking, biking, off roading, or your adventure of choice. Many of these sites have downloadable trail maps. We have compiled a list of sites that our users have found and made it available with the Trails button on Trail Boss’s settings page. Where possible, we ha...

Yes. In the Trip Log page tap the info button for your newest trip to view its statistics page. Scroll to the bottom where you'll find the 'Trips Like This One' section. This section compares the trip with other trips that followed the same track. You can tap 'View Similar Trips In Log' to filter th...

You can merge trips or parts of trips into a new trip using the measure tool. Go to the Trip Log page and select the first trip onto the Map page by tapping its preview map. Place the crosshair ⊹ on the track line where you want to start copying the track. Tap the measure tool button. Tap the route ...

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Tap your placemark on the map page. Select 'Edit' then select 'Select Image'.

Yes. Help Video: Plan Route Through Trail Map Go to the Trip Log page and tap the trail map's preview map to select it onto the Map Page. Place the crosshair ⊹ at your route start location on the trail map. Tap the Measure Tool button. Tap the route mode button and select 'Along Track From Trip Log'...

Yes. Help Video:Download With Safari Help Video:Download With Chrome (recommended) If a web site has routes in KML/KMZ or GPX formats then you can import them directly from the web site into Trail Boss. Open the web site in Safari on your phone. Locate the route KML/KMZ or GPX file and tap it. Safar...

Yes. If you have installed the Google Earth App on your phone then you can easily view a Trail Boss trip in it. Tap the trip’s Share button in the Trip Log page. Select 'KMZ File'. Then select 'Share With Another App'. This will show a list of Apps that can open a KMZ file. Select Google Earth from ...

Side swipe the trip log entry to the left. An option will appear that allows you to delete the trip.

If you start recording a trip too soon after you turn your phone on then the first several track points recorded to your trip can be very inaccurate. This is because the GPS is restarted when your phone is turned on and it takes some time for it to figure out where you are with precision. If you wan...

Yes. The easiest way to do this is to use Trail Boss's 'Backup Trips & Placemarks' option under 'General Maintenance' in Trail Boss's Settings page. This option creates a file that contains all your trips and placemarks. You then have the option to email the file or save it directly to cloud storage...

Yes. The easiest way to do this is to use Trail Boss's 'Backup Trips & Placemarks' option under 'General Maintenance' on Trail Boss's Settings page. This option allows you to backup all of your trips and placemarks via email or directly to cloud storage such as iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive. Once you ha...

Help Video Trail Boss has 3 modes of orienting the map on the Map Page: 'North Up', 'Heading Up', and 'Track Up'. Tap the position arrow to change modes. 'North Up' disables map rotation and sets the map so that north is always at the top of the screen. This mode is similar to using a paper map. In...

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Drag the map to place the ⊹ cursor over the spot. Distance and heading to the spot are shown at the top left of the screen. If you have an internet connection then elevation at the spot is also shown.

Works with Trail Boss version 2.52 and above. Warning, this is not an official map.The nautical information contained in this map is created and maintained by a user community, not official government sources. The charted objects may be inaccurate, outdated, or just plain wrong. Do not rely on this ...

We recommend using the phone's built-in barometer for altitude information. Your climb and descent totals will be much more accurate when using the barometer. The barometer is enabled by selecting 'Use Barometer For Altitude' under the 'Barometer, Sounds, Screen' option in Trail Boss's Settings page...

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Position the map so that it shows the area of interest.

Go to the Trip Log page and tap the advanced filter button at the top left.

Select the option Within Visible Map. Tap OK to go back to the Trip Log. It now shows the trips that are within the visible bounds of the map page.

Go to the Trip Log Page and tap the trip's Info button. At the bottom of the Info page tap the 'Profile' button. OR Go to the Trip Log Page and tap the trip's preview map to select it onto the Map Page. Place the ⊹ cursor over any point on the track line. It will change to the 'Info' button. Tap th...

Trail Boss can alert you with an audible tone when you approach one of your placemarks. Trail Boss will display a popup alert message and play the alert tone when you approach a placemark. The alert is cancelled when you arrive at the placemark. You can manually cancel the alert by dismissing the po...

When you are navigating out in the field it can be a real pain having to Face ID or fingerprint each time you want to check the map. Fortunately IOS has a mode called "Guided Access" that will allow you to bypass the authentication and notification screens altogether. When you turn on your phone it ...

Another worldwide topographic map

URL:

http://b.tile.opentopomap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

On Trail Boss's settings page there is a button 'More Maps' that lets you use maps from any internet map server. We have pre-loaded Trail Boss with many specialty maps and you can add to this list. You can find map servers all across the internet. Many are run by government agencies and serve up spe...

To add one of these maps to Trail Boss: The person who posted the map to this forum should have included the Server URL string. Select the Server URL string and copy it. Switch back to Trail Boss and go to the settings page. Select 'More Maps'. Select the + button, a blank entry is created at the bo...

Thunderforest provides several interesting map styles. Go to https://www.thunderforest.com and sign up to get an access key. Then add an entry in Trail Boss's "Other Online Maps" for each of the Thunderforest styles you want to use. The Thunderforest map style pages show the URL that you must enter ...

There are 3 ways to add a placemark to the map: 1. Add a placemark at the ⊹ cursor: Position the map so that the ⊹ cursor is on the spot where you want the placemark. Tap the Placemark button at the bottom left of the map. Select 'Create A Placemark' Enter a name for the placemark. Select 'At The ⊹ ...

We use large fonts on all of our screens to make them easier to read, especially in bright conditions that can wash out the display. There are also a few options for enhancing the Map page: Under the 'Map Page Settings' option in Trail Boss's Settings page you can adjust the 'Map Text Size' to 'Larg...

Yes. Select an Activity filter at the top right of the Trip Log page. The trip list will now show matching trips. Tap the 'Totals' button to see the combined trip totals. If you are a subscriber you can use the advanced filter. Tap the advanced filter button at the top left of the Trip Log page. You...

When you are not recording a trip Trail Boss goes to sleep when you are not using it. In this case Trail Boss does not consume any battery power. When you are recording a trip Trail Boss must stay awake when your phone is off or you are using another App so that it can continue to record your moveme...

By default, Trail Boss uses GPS elevation to compute elevation totals. GPS elevation can be inaccurate. If you place a high value on accurate climb/descent statistics then select 'Use Barometer For Altitude' under the 'Barometer, Sounds, Screen' option on Trail Boss's Settings page, it is much more ...

Trail Boss divides your trip into segments (legs) that represent the significant climbs and descents in your trip (see post What is 'Trip Leg Divisions' on the Settings page? ). Trip total climb/descent is the sum of each leg's elevation change. The small ups and downs that may occur within a leg ar...

Use the 'Quick Route' function to quickly create a route from your location to any other location: Place the ⊹ cursor on the destination. Tap the Placemark button at the bottom left of the map. Select 'Quick Route'. A popup gives you several options for navigating from your current location to the ...

Yes. Go to the Trip Log Page and tap the trip's preview map to select it onto the Map Page. Place the ⊹ cursor over the point on the track where you would like to split the trip. The ⊹ will change to the info button, tap it to show the profile page. Select 'Options' + 'Split Trip' The track that was...

Tap the placemark on the map page and select 'Edit' from the popup options.

When you press the record button to start a trip Trail Boss records your current location as the trip start point. However, the trip clock is not started and no further track points will be recorded until you have travelled a short distance away from the start point. This allows you to start the tri...

When GPS accuracy falls below Trail Boss's minimum acceptable value the trip recording is paused. Recording is resumed when GPS accuracy returns to normal. A warning symbol is displayed on the map at the last good position. That will be followed by a gap in the track line while the GPS quality was p...

Trail Boss emits an alert sound in 5 cases: 1. An alert is sounded when the GPS accuracy falls below Trail Boss's minimum acceptable value. You can silence this alert for 10 minutes by tapping the red warning message at the top of the Map page. Each successive tap adds another 10 minutes of silence....

The map page can display dashboard items in a panel at the bottom of the page. The panel can show 1, 2, or 3 rows of dashboard items, or it can be hidden from view. Go to 'Map Page Settings' on Trail Boss's Settings page and use the 'Bottom Data Panel Height' option to adjust. Each row in the panel ...

Trail Boss uses the region that you selected in your phone's Settings to determine what units to display. For example, if you have set up your region to be the USA you will see distances as ft/miles. If you have selected Canada then distances will be meters/kilometers. You can override the automatic...

Trail Boss divides your trip into segments (legs) based upon the selection you make in ‘Trip Leg Divisions’. Statistics like time, distance, climb/descent etc are available for each leg. Setting: Climbs, Descents and Flats . This setting divides your trip into red climb, green descent, and cyan flat...

When using the measure tool to measure the distance between 2 points, the distance, heading, elevation change and slope angle between the 2 points are shown. The elevation change and slope angle are obtained from an internet server. It can take a few seconds for this to happen so there is usually a ...

When you drag the map, distance and heading from your current location to the ⊹ cursor and elevation at that spot are shown at the top left of the page. The elevation information is obtained from an internet server. It can take a few seconds for this to happen so there is usually a small delay befor...

Yes. Trail Boss can import KML/KMZ/GPX files. KML/KMZ files are the format made popular by Google Earth. GPX files are used by many 3rd party Apps. Most mapping Apps can export trip tracks in one or all of these formats. To import a kml/kmz/gpx file: Have your friend export his trip track to a kml/k...

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Trail Boss gets its map data from internet servers so it will count against your cellular data plan. You should carefully monitor your data usage when you are using Trail Boss.

When your phone is connected to wifi Trail Boss will use the wifi connection instead of using your cellular data.

Yes. Trail Boss normally updates its maps from an internet server as your trip progresses. If you are going somewhere where internet will not be available then you must pre-download the map for that area. Trail Boss will be fully functional using the downloaded map even when you are offline. To down...

You can create and save a route using the measure tool. See our help videos: Create a route that follows trails that are shown on Trail Boss's map. Create a route where there are no trails on Trail Boss's map. Create a route that follows trails from a trip in your trip log. Position the map so the ⊹...

BC’s road network including active logging roads.

Server url:

http://maps.gov.bc.ca/arcgis/services/province/roads_wm/MapServer/WmsServer?service=wms&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetMap&CRS=EPSG:3857&WIDTH=512&HEIGHT=512&FORMAT=image/png&styles=default&layers=0&BBOX={bbox-epsg-3857}

Server URL:

http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}

Complete topographic map of the USA

Server URL:

http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/USA_Topo_Maps/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}

In Trail Boss's settings page there is an option labelled 'More Maps'. We have pre-loaded 'More Maps' with many 3rd party maps that we have used in our travels. You can add your favorite maps to this list. See the forum "More Maps" for instructions on adding maps to the list. That forum also has a l...

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