This guide covers Trailmap's native mobile app "Trailmap", which is available for iOS and Android devices. A separate guide for the web version that runs in a browser can be found here. Many functions are the ...

This guide covers Trailmap's web version, i.e. the website that runs in a browser at https://web.trailmap.fi. Most of it also applies to the mobile app, which has a simpler set of functions. The mobile app's b...

We all have our favourite loops. They're great rides, but if your riding never goes beyond them, you miss out on a lot. Tile hunting breaks that pattern: it divides the whole world into squares and gives you o...

A wide selection of maps that you can extend yourself is one of the core features of the Trailmap app. Why would anyone need many maps, when plenty of sports and outdoor apps get by with a single one? The reas...

In Trailmap you can share your routes with others in two different ways, and it's worth understanding the difference. A share link is the targeted approach: you share a web address for the route with the peopl...

The Trailmap mobile app now has voice-guided navigation: when you follow a route you've picked in advance, the app warns you about upcoming turns out loud and shows them on screen as well. The idea is familiar...

When you use the Trailmap mobile app for navigation or for recording longer rides (over 2 hours), it's worth getting to know the ways you can cut power consumption, so that your phone's battery lasts the whole...

Garmin's sports watches and bike computers are probably the most common devices among active cyclists and (trail) runners for recording a ride, tracking distance and speed along the way, and navigating a route...

This article answers common questions about the app. Route planning I can't get the route to go the way I want Automatic routing routes according to the routing profile you have selected (e.g. "gravel"), lo...

Nobody has yet invented the single app that handles every need of an active outdoor enthusiast really well — which is why Trailmap concentrates on doing a few chosen things (the map and route planning, among o...

Every now and then, one picture says more than a thousand words... Strava's high-quality heatmap The picture shows the global heatmap found on Strava's website. It shows Strava users' outings for the chosen ...

Over the years Strava (https://strava.com, and "Strava" in the mobile app stores) has become one of the world's most popular — if not the most popular — global sports apps and social media for exercise. Strava...

What to do when location isn't working in Trailmap — either in the native app installed from the app store, or on the Trailmap website opened in a browser (that is, the web version of the app)? Almost always t...

The Trailmap web app also works well in the browsers of mobile devices. On tablets, almost the same interface is on offer as on a computer, but on smartphones the structure of the menus and screens has been ad...

The OSM iD editor, used for editing the map The map data for Trailmap's best maps for finding trails and navigating on them (the "MTB map", for example) comes from the OpenStreetMap community map (OSM) databa...

If you haven't already read the general overview of OpenStreetMap mapping as background, read this article first. This piece follows on from it, describing step by step and in more detail how to add trails to ...