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2026-10-03
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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 button icons and its structure differ from the web version in places.

Tutorial videos for the app can be found on Trailmap's YouTube channel (TrailmapSuomi, in Finnish); you can start with the map functions and continue with the basics of route planning.

In the app's "Info" menu you'll also find the Quick guide (a short introduction to the app), the Map legend, and links to the user guides and the support site.

General information about the app

The interface is optimised for route planning and navigation. The main view shows the map, with the route you're drawing or the tracks you've opened on it. Supporting the main view are a few other screens for listing and using your own routes, places, tracks and Strava activities.

The app is at its best on a big screen, either on a computer or a tablet. It also works well on a smartphone, but the functions are simplified there and the small screen naturally limits working with the map. For mobile use, see this guide.

Trailmap's native mobile app "Trailmap" is optimised for phone use and navigation. It has big buttons and an interface that's generally better suited to use out in the terrain. It also has many functions useful for navigation that the web version lacks: compass, map turning, keeping the screen "always on", ride recording, offline maps and so on. On the other hand it lacks some functions, such as My maps.

The web version and the mobile app play well together: for example, when you plan a route in the web version it's immediately available in the mobile app, as long as you're logged in to both with the same user account.

The app's maps and route drawing cover the whole of Europe. The most detailed maps are in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia: there Trailmap's default map is a so-called hybrid map, which combines OpenStreetMap's roads and trails with the map data of each country's national mapping agency (more under "Maps"). The traditional topographic map is available for the same countries and for Spain.

The app is available in six languages: Finnish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Estonian. At first the app picks the language from your browser's language settings. You can change the language at any time:

Your choice is remembered in the browser. If you're logged in, the language is also saved to your user account, so that, for example, emails from Trailmap arrive in the language you chose. The user guides and the support site are also available in all six languages.

User account

If you haven't logged in to the app yet, the right side of the navigation bar reads "Sign in / Register". Logging in isn't compulsory, but saving your own routes or places, syncing routes with Garmin / Wahoo / Suunto devices and viewing the tracks of your Strava activities are only possible when you're logged in.

You can log in directly with Google or Apple sign-in, or by first registering with an email address and a password. Google sign-in is generally the easiest way to use the app on different devices, and the email & password combination is flexible too. Apple sign-in often causes difficulties, because it only works with the same account you're logged in to on your Apple device.

Once you've logged in, the app normally opens already logged in on the same computer and browser. Note: if you want to log in both with an email address & password and with Google or Apple, you have to create the account with email first; only after that can you also log in with Google's or Apple's sign-in service (provided you use the same email address in those services as the one you registered with).

With the email & password option you can change your password or reset a forgotten one on the "Sign in" page: right at the bottom of the page is a "Forgot your password?" button. Note: this button is only visible when you're logged out, so if you want to change your password, log out first.

When you're logged in, an avatar appears on the right side of the navigation bar. Clicking it opens a menu from which you can get to the settings, among other things. In the settings you can link the app to Garmin Connect, Wahoo, Suunto and Strava. Routes can be synced to Garmin and Wahoo devices, routes and tracks can be sent to Suunto (no automatic syncing), and the Strava link lets you show the tracks of your Strava activities on the map. You can also delete your user account in the settings.

If you're an OpenStreetMap (OSM) mapper, turn on the "OSM mapper" setting: it adds a "Mapping" option to the top bar menu, with functions that support OSM mapping.

The "Your subscriptions" section on the settings page shows whether you have the paid Plus package. The Plus package unlocks all of the app's functions; more on that in the next section.

The Plus package

Most of the app's functions are free: among them viewing maps, opening tracks from GPX & KML files and Strava activities on the map, route planning and the mapping functions. Note that in the mobile app, opening routes and tracks on the map requires a Trailmap package subscription, unless it's a route shared by another user. To make developing and maintaining the app possible, some functions are paid; you get them by subscribing to the Plus package or to the Navi package available in the mobile app.

There are three subscription levels: the free Map and the paid Navi and Plus. The Navi package can only be bought in the mobile app. Navi brings, among other things, GPX export and route sharing, limited route saving and syncing, and the basic mobile navigation functions (offline maps, map turning etc.). Plus unlocks all the functions, among them the 3D map, Google Street View, "My places", route collections, Strava activities on the map, as well as unlimited route saving, device syncing and the mobile app's voice-guided navigation. All subscriptions include a 5-day free trial. You'll find more information about the Plus and Navi packages on the app's subscription page.

The main view (map)

The main view's 2 states: viewing & route drawing

You can always get back to the main view by clicking the Trailmap logo or the "house" button in the navigation bar at the very top of the screen. The main view has two states:

  1. Map state, i.e. the viewing state / basic state
  2. Action state, in which there's a sidebar on the left side of the screen. The action states are: route drawing, My places, Strava activities & my tracks, and OSM mapping.

In the route drawing state, the functions you need for drawing your own route are shown on the left side of the screen, and clicking the map with the mouse edits the route.

You can move between the map state and the action states in a few different ways.

From the map state you can get to route drawing in three ways:

  1. Click the "+" button in the top left corner of the screen and choose "route". In the mobile app the "+" button is on the right edge of the map.
  2. If you've already drawn a route, move the mouse cursor over the route: it turns red, and clicking it opens a menu from which you can choose "Edit route"
  3. Open the "Routes" menu in the navigation bar and choose "Create route", or, if you already have a route open, "Edit route"

From route drawing and the other action states you can get back to the map state in two ways:

  1. At the top of the sidebar on the left there's a "cross" button; on a phone there's a "Stop route drawing" button at the bottom of the screen
  2. Click the Trailmap logo or the "home" button in the navigation bar at the top of the screen

Note: you can move freely between the states and return to editing the route whenever you like. The route stays in the app's memory until you open a new route or close the app in the browser — or, if you start doing something else on your computer, the browser may close the app after a while to save memory. When you later return to the Trailmap page in the same browser, the app first asks whether you want to restore the route you were editing. Remember to save the route before leaving the Trailmap app for a longer time.

The map view's functions

The map view's functions work in both the map state and the action states.

Buttons in the top right corner: Zoom & full screen view. Place search, the Map legend (info button) and locating your own position. The map controls also have the 3D map button, which tilts the map into a three-dimensional terrain model (a Plus function).

Country selection: The app switches country automatically according to where the map is. When several countries are visible on the map, the app offers country selection buttons (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Global), with which you change the maps and functions of the country in use. More under "Maps".

Buttons in the top left corner: Map settings and the shortcut for the traditional topographic map ("Topographic map on/off"), which works in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Spain. Below these buttons is the button for hiding tracks: hiding tracks momentarily (they aren't deleted, only hidden) lets you examine the map underneath them, e.g. what kind of path a track follows.

Keyboard shortcuts: briefly hides the route lines and dims the main map layer; this helps when viewing overlay maps, for example the Finnish Digiroad "DR Paved Road" layer. <The number key "2"> briefly hides all tracks other than your own route, and <the number key "1"> hides all tracks — with these two keys you can quickly glance at what's on the map under the tracks. briefly dims the overlay maps; this is handy when you have strong overlays selected, such as "DR Paved Road", that keep you from seeing the base map underneath at roads & paths. <The number key "3"> does the same as the Esc key but works slightly differently: successive presses hide and restore the overlay maps. <The letter key "S"> opens and closes Google Street View at the mouse cursor. <The number key "4"> briefly shows only the MTB and gravel segments (see "MTB and gravel segments").

Context menu: Open a context menu at the cursor with the right mouse button, or on touch devices by pressing and holding the map with your finger. In the context menu you can, among other things, see detailed OpenStreetMap information and the spot's coordinates, open Google Street View or add a place of your own.

Route drawing

Route drawing has developed significantly from the earlier Trailmap app. The goal is fast, exploratory route drawing that you can then refine and edit into the final route. Typically you first quickly sketch the route's "skeleton" by clicking waypoints onto the map, to see how long a route idea would turn out. With undo you can quickly remove the last waypoint and try other alternatives. By dragging waypoints you can quickly reshape the route.

Once the skeleton is ready, you can edit the route in many ways, e.g. by choosing exactly which paths it follows. The route editing features in particular are more capable than in the earlier Trailmap app, and in practice remove the need to start a route from scratch even when it needs major changes. A route with a lot of waypoints is often faster to edit by removing a batch of waypoints at once with the "Crop" function (more on that below).

You can also use a track (a GPX, KML or KMZ file, a Strava activity or your own track) as the basis for a route: first open the track on the map, click it with the mouse or your finger and choose "Convert to route" from the menu. Another way is the route drawing start window: if one track is open on the map, choose "Edit the track opened on the map"; otherwise choose "Use a GPX file as the route base".

In the window that opens, choose the routing profile (and, if needed, "Routing settings") and press "Create route". Double-clicking a profile icon starts the conversion straight away. A track is just a set of coordinates, whereas a route consists of editable waypoints. In the conversion the app matches the track to the roads and trails on the map and tries to use as few waypoints as possible, so the route is easy to edit. Sections that aren't on the map (e.g. going cross-country through pathless terrain) stay as they are in the track. The original track remains on the map for comparison.

In the "Route drawing" state the map view changes as follows:

The drawing action bar on the left: The route's name (if saved), "saved" / "not saved" status, the route's length and the routing settings: "Follow roads & paths" routes along the paths (roads and trails) of the OpenStreetMap map according to the routing profile; without it a straight route line is drawn, which is sometimes necessary, for example where the map data has gaps. The routing profile you choose affects how the routing "follows roads", i.e. which kinds of paths it favours.

The sidebar also has the route's summary and the notes and warnings sections: open them by pressing the chevron on the right. The notes and warnings point out sections of the route that are worth checking if the route doesn't follow ways you already know. Pressing an item in the warnings list highlights that warning type on the route line, i.e. the spots of the route the warning concerns. When you then press a spot coloured yellow or red, you get more information about the warning — in practice, how the way has been recorded in OpenStreetMap. Interpreting this takes a bit of knowledge of how OpenStreetMap describes roads and trails.

The route's notes and warnings are also always shown directly on the route line as faint yellow and red colouring. Likewise, the route line shows the surface of the way: asphalt (a solid red line) and other surfaces such as gravel / earth (a red dotted line). These help you read the route quickly. For more detail at a given spot, use the sidebar sections mentioned above, zoom in very close to the route line (it turns translucent so you can see the map markings underneath), or look at the OSM information of the way underneath with the context menu described earlier.

The sidebar also has buttons for saving the route to Trailmap's route library, saving a GPX file, sending the route to a device (Garmin, Wahoo or Suunto) and sharing the route with other users. Note! Remember to save the route if you want to keep it for later — routes aren't saved automatically. In the save dialog you give a name and a description, and you can also choose the activity type, the collection and the visibility (Private, Public or Published). The "star" button in the top right corner marks the route for device syncing: marked routes are synced automatically to the Garmin and Wahoo devices connected to the service. When you share a route you get a share link; there's also an alternative "fresh link", which helps if, for example, WhatsApp doesn't refresh the link's preview image.

You can stop route drawing either with the cross in the top right of the sidebar or with the "Stop route drawing" button further down the sidebar. Note: stopping route drawing doesn't remove the route from the map; it only switches the app back to the basic state, i.e. map viewing. You can continue drawing in the ways described earlier in this guide. To remove the route from the map, press the "Remove from map" button (or the "wastebasket" button of the drawing buttons described below). Note: removing a route from the map can't be undone, so if you want to keep the route you've edited, save it to the route library first.

The drawing action barThe drawing action bar

Routing profiles:

  1. On foot: Chooses the most direct (shortest) routes. Also suits e.g. mountain biking when you want to choose the paths yourself.
  2. Mountain bike: Favours trails and forest roads.
  3. Gravel: Makes versatile use of different ways, from gravel and minor roads to easy trails.
  4. Road bike: Favours paved roads and avoids trails and gravel.
  5. Winter: For skiing and other winter sports. Under the profile you choose Cross-country skiing or Winter MTB.

Each profile's routing can be fine-tuned in the profile's "Routing settings" menu (e.g. technicality, avoiding asphalt or big roads, favouring cycle paths), and the settings can be reset to the defaults.

Drawing buttons in the top left corner of the map: From the left: hide the route momentarily (to see what's under the route line), add route places ("Add a place to the route", see "Route places" below), reverse the route ("Reverse route"), continue the route from its start ("Add to start"), remove a part of the route ("Crop"), undo, redo, and start the route from scratch ("clear"). On a narrow screen some of the buttons (Crop, Reverse route, Add to start) move into the "..." menu.

The "Crop" function opens the "Remove part of the route" window, where you select a part of the route with a slider. The selected part is shown in blue on the map, with its start marked by a green dot and its end by a red dot. Then press either "Delete selected" or "Delete other" (deletes everything except the selected part). If you remove a part from the middle of the route, the app joins the remaining parts: the connecting section is routed along roads, or becomes a straight line if either of the neighbouring sections is a straight line. You can undo a crop with the undo button. The "Add to start" button switches adding waypoints to the start of the route (otherwise new points are added to the end). You can make a loop by clicking the route's first waypoint and choosing "Make a round trip".

Keyboard shortcuts: "z" is undo, "t" toggles "Follow roads & paths" and "Esc" stops adding route places.

Mouse functions:

Note: the small white circles with a red rim on the route line are "waypoints", which determine which way the route line goes.

Waypoint order and routes that pass the same section several times

When you move the mouse over a waypoint (on a touchscreen: when you open a waypoint's menu), a sequence number appears in the corner of every intermediate waypoint. The start and end points have their own icons, so the first intermediate waypoint is number 1. Small direction arrows also appear on the sections leading into and out of the selected waypoint. This lets you see at a glance in which order the route passes the points — especially useful when the route uses the same road or trail more than once.

When you zoom in close, the route's different passes are drawn slightly offset to the right of the direction of travel. Sections that run along the same road in opposite directions are thus shown side by side as two "lanes", and the waypoints of each pass appear on their own lane. When you click the route line, the nearest lane is selected, so you can edit exactly the pass you want.

The elevation profile follows the right pass too: when you move the mouse over the route line, the elevation profile's marker moves to the point of the route whose pass the mouse is over.

Route places

Route places are points of interest that belong to a route, for example a summit, a water point, a ford, a gate or a café. They travel with the route: they're shown on the map, saved with the route, included in the GPX file and sent to devices. Route places differ from "My places" in that they belong to a single route and aren't shown with other routes. Nor are they waypoints: a route place doesn't affect which way the route goes.

Adding a place in the route drawing state works in three ways:

  1. "Add a place to the route" among the drawing buttons in the top left corner of the map. The button turns orange and a crosshair appears at the cursor. When you bring the crosshair close to the route line, it snaps to the route so the place lands exactly on it. Click the map to open the place's details window. Adding mode stays on, so you can add several places in a row. Stop by pressing the button again ("Stop adding places") or the Esc key.
  2. Click the route line and choose "Route place" from the menu.
  3. Open the map's context menu (right mouse button or long press) and choose "Add route place". In the route drawing state this replaces the context menu's "New place of my own" option.

Place details: First choose a type, then optionally give a name (up to 30 characters), a description and a link (URL). The name isn't required: a place without a name is shown with the name of its type. There are 20 types: default, viewpoint, summit, danger, ford, gate, water point, food shop, restaurant, first aid, campfire, shelter, toilet, accommodation, campsite, parking, fuel, bike service, info and ATM.

Position on the route: A place is "on the route" when it's no more than 25 metres from the route line. The details window then shows "Position on the route", i.e. the distance from the start of the route, e.g. 12.4 km. A place further away is "beside the route", and shows "Not on the route". On the map, places on the route are shown in blue and places beside the route in red.

If the route passes the same spot more than once (e.g. an out-and-back route), the details window lists each pass with its own distance. Use the checkboxes to choose on which pass or passes the place is included, e.g. a summit on both the way out and the way back. At least one pass is always selected. On the map the place appears as a single marker, and if it's selected for several passes, the marker shows a small count.

Editing: Move a place by dragging its icon on the map. When you move the mouse over the icon, a card opens showing the place's details along with edit and delete buttons. The "Route places" section of the drawing action bar lists the route's places in distance order (one row for each selected pass). Clicking a row centres the map on the place. If a change to the route moves it away from a place, the app tells you: "A route change affected … route places". Places aren't moved automatically, so check them. Note: changes to route places aren't included in undo and redo.

Places are saved when you save the route. They're also visible to everyone who can see the route, e.g. viewers of a shared or published route, and they're copied along with the route when the route is copied.

Places in the GPX file and on devices:

Tip: before sending to a device, the list in the drawing action bar shows at which distances the course points will appear, which helps, for example, when planning stages.

Elevation profile

From the bottom bar below the route you can open the elevation profile with the arrow button; it shows the route's distance–elevation curve. The profile can be coloured by "Surface" (way surfaces) or "Warnings". Moving the mouse over the graph shows the corresponding spot on the map along with details (distance, elevation, gradient, surface), and clicking centres the map on that spot.

The route's waypoints are shown numbered along the bottom edge of the elevation profile. When you move the mouse over a point, the corresponding waypoint is highlighted on the map, and moving the mouse over a waypoint on the map highlights the corresponding point in the profile.

Automatic route drawing

You can also create a route automatically. Choose "Automatic route drawing" and "Create" in the route drawing start view. Set the routing profile, the route's length (slider) and the starting direction (compass selector), then pick the starting point on the map. The app suggests a few alternative routes; you can choose one to edit further, or generate new suggestions.

Restoring a saved route's path

Map data and routing change all the time: roads and trails are added to and corrected in OSM every day, and the routing profiles keep being developed. That means opening a saved route for editing could change the way it goes, even if you didn't change anything yourself. To prevent this, the app compares a route opened for editing with its saved path. If the routing has changed, the app restores the saved path by adding the waypoints needed.

When this happens, a notification appears at the top of the screen and in the drawing action bar, e.g. "Saved path restored — 2 waypoints added." and, if relevant, "Route length changed by +0.3 km." The added waypoints pulse orange for a few seconds so you can see where the fix was made. The saved route is also shown on the map as a track (named "(saved route)"), so you can compare it with the current route.

Note: the fix is only applied when a saved route is opened for editing (including when you edit a copy you've made of a route shared by another user).

Routes and Collections

Choosing "Routes" in the navigation bar shows a list of all your own routes, ordered by when they were last edited, i.e. the most recently edited is at the top left. With the route filter you can show only some of the routes in the list: routes can be narrowed down by search term, activity type, collection (including "Not in a collection" and "Archive"), distance, last edited date, visibility ("Public" and "Published") and device syncing. Choosing "Show on map" lets you view your route library on the map; it's then often worth using the route filter to show only some of the routes. Clicking an individual route on the map gives you more information about it and a pop-up menu of actions.

From a route card you can open the route for viewing or editing; clicking the "star" turns syncing to Garmin and Wahoo devices on or off, and the "three dots" button opens a menu where you can edit the route, show it on the map, share it, add it to a collection, archive it (or restore it from the archive), make a copy of it, delete it permanently (note: can't be undone), save a GPX file or send it to a device.

The screen also has buttons for continuing to edit the open route or creating an entirely new route (note: this closes the route that was open, and its changes aren't saved!). If you're editing an existing route (rather than one you've just created), the route list shows on its route card that it's the route you're editing.

The route view has Map, Info and Elevation profile tabs; the Info tab also shows the breakdown of the route's road surfaces. You can take a route shared by another user for yourself with the "Copy as my own" function.

Under the "Routes" menu you can also see the collections you've created. Collections are a handy way of grouping routes, e.g. route plans for your summer holiday, your best gravel routes, the routes for a particular destination and so on.

Handling several routes at once (a Plus function): Press the "Edit" button at the top of the route list. A checkbox appears on every route card, and you can select routes by clicking the cards. "Select visible" selects all routes visible in the list and "Clear selection" clears the selection. The actions available for the selected routes are "Archive" (or "Restore from archive"), "Add to collection" and "Delete". Press "Done" to finish. By combining these bulk actions with the route filter you can tidy up even a large route library quickly, e.g. archive all routes from a certain year or sport in one go.

Archive: Archived routes are kept, but hidden from the route list. You can see them by choosing "Archive" in the collection filter. Archiving doesn't affect a route's sharing or publication, so it's a handy way to keep, for example, published routes live without them cluttering your everyday route list (see also Sharing a route).

Maps

Hybrid maps: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia

Trailmap's default map is a hybrid map: it combines OpenStreetMap's (OSM) comprehensive road and trail network with the terrain data of the national mapping agency into a single vector map. In Finland the map has long been built from OSM and Maanmittauslaitos (MML) data. The same model is now in use in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia too:

In all these countries, trails, roads and their surfaces as well as MTB classifications come from OSM, and the OSM data on the map is updated daily. In practice the map, the map settings and the routing profiles work the same way in these countries as in Finland. There are a few country-specific differences: the "MML" map style, property boundaries and the LIPAS routes and places are only available in Finland, and depth contours are available in Finland and Estonia.

You can read the background to the expansion in the blog post Trailmap is now in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Estonia.

Trailmap expands to the NordicsTrailmap expands to the Nordics

Country selection: The app chooses the country automatically according to where the map is, and tells you about the switch with a notification (e.g. "Country setting: Sweden"). When several countries are visible on the map, country selection buttons (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Global) appear at the top of the map, with which you choose whose maps and functions are in use. The selected country is also shown in the Map settings title, e.g. "Map (Sweden)".

Traditional topographic map: Below the "map" button in the top left corner of the map view there's by default a shortcut button, "Topographic map on/off". It switches the map to each country's traditional topographic map and back. Available are the MML topographic map for Finland, Lantmäteriet's for Sweden, Kartverket's for Norway, Klimadatastyrelsen's for Denmark, Maa- ja Ruumiamet's for Estonia and IGN's topographic maps for Spain.

Map settings

The "map" button in the top left of the map view opens the Map settings menu. Here you choose which maps are shown in the map view and adjust them.

Map settingsMap settings

The topmost option in the map settings is "profile". It lets you save different map settings for different purposes, e.g. different sports. The default settings already work well for the 4 sports on the profile list, and there are also the "Other" and "Own" profiles. Profiles work like this: whenever you change the map settings further down in the menu, they're saved as part of the selected profile, so they're quick to restore. Profiles are, in effect, "memory slots".

The settings further down the menu adjust the map shown on the screen:

MTB and gravel segments

Segments highlight the ways that matter for the chosen sport, making route ideas easier to see even when zoomed out. Turn them on under "Segments" in the Map settings (section "Routes, places & photos"): choose "MTB", "Gravel" or both. "Hide all" turns the segments off.

The keyboard shortcut <the number key "4"> (hold it down) briefly hides the other lines and overlay maps and dims the base map, so only the segments are visible.

You can read the background to gravel segments and the gravel classification in the blog posts Ride what you'd ride anyway – an idea for a smarter gravel game and Gravel classification.

Gravel segments on the Trailmap mapGravel segments on the Trailmap map

My maps

Choosing "Maps" in the navigation bar and then "My raster maps" lets you define which raster maps are offered in the Map settings menu — both as base maps for the "Other" style and as overlay maps in all styles.

This opens a list of your maps, both base maps and overlay maps. The list shows all the maps that come with the app as well as your own maps. The "..." button on the right of a map gives access to further functions; for example, you can copy the map layer, edit it, or delete it if it's your own map.

You can add more maps to the list with the "+ Add map" button at the bottom of the list. You can read more about maps, their differences and their use in this article. Adding your own maps requires some familiarity with how map servers work and how they're configured.

The app supports different types of map source:

Examples of map sources:

  1. OpenStreetMap (XYZ) URL: http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
  2. Digiroad (WMS) URL: https://avoinapi.vaylapilvi.fi/vaylatiedot/digiroad/ows and "Layer name": dr_liikennemaara and "Layer style": dr_liikennemaara
  3. MML topographic map (WMTS, but choose the XYZ type) URL: https://avoin-karttakuva.maanmittauslaitos.fi/avoin/wmts/1.0.0/maastokartta/default/WGS84_Pseudo-Mercator/{z}/{y}/{x}.png?api-key=(your own API key, created on MML's OmaTili page)

The map URL uses so-called variables that identify the map tile to fetch: {z} is the zoom level, {x} the x coordinate and {y} the y coordinate. You can also use {s}, which is replaced with the letter a, b or c when a tile is fetched (a rudimentary form of load balancing that some map servers still use). Note: these variables vary between apps, so take care if you copy map URLs from elsewhere. In some, for example, {z} is {zoom} and {s} is {switch:a,b,c}.

Other map functions

The "Maps" menu in the navigation bar also has "Maps for other apps", which lets you use Trailmap's maps in other apps (e.g. on Garmin, a Plus function), and "Overview maps" for viewing larger regional maps.

Mapping

If you turn on the "OSM mapper" setting, "Mapping" appears in the "Maps" menu of the navigation bar. With it you can examine the information on OpenStreetMap ways: click the map to see a road's or trail's information, and double-click a path you've found to open its OSM history. Ready-made searches help you find e.g. unpaved roads or missing MTB classifications, and the "Open iD editor" button takes you straight to OSM editing.

Tracks

If you've linked the app to Strava, you can show the tracks of your Strava activities on the map by selecting them from the list in the sidebar on the left. The list shows the activities of the selected year and quarter(s).

Choosing "My Tracks" from the sidebar's tabs shows your own tracks. You can save your own tracks by, among other things, clicking a track opened on the map and choosing "Save track" from the pop-up menu. With the mobile app you can save your own ride as one of your own tracks.

Note: "My Tracks" isn't meant as an activity log in the way apps designed specifically for saving your workouts are (Garmin, Suunto, Polar, Strava etc.). It's quite simple in its functions and best suited to saving individual tracks, e.g. keeping GPX tracks found from various sources in an easily usable form.

With "Open file" in the "Tracks" menu you can bring tracks and so-called POI points onto the map from GPX, KML and KMZ files. Even quicker is to drag the files straight from your computer's file manager onto the map view ("drag-and-drop"). Dragging works on the main view's map, also while drawing a route, and you can drag several files at once (up to 25 MB per file). Opened files are shown on the map as tracks, and for a GPX file the map centres on the track. You can then save the track as one of your own tracks or convert it into a route (see "Route drawing").

Places and Photos

The "Places" menu opens the sidebar on the left, where you can manage your own places and the photos you've published. My places is a Plus function. You can add a new place from the map ("Add place" or the map's context menu) or from an image file, in which case the location is read from the photo's GPS data. You can choose an icon for the place (e.g. viewpoint, campfire, shelter, water point, restaurant, accommodation).

Clicking a place or photo in the list centres the map on it. At the same time a map marker appears on the map; drag it to change the place's or photo's location. After you drag the marker to a new spot, it takes a moment for the location to update: once it has, the icon appears on the map at the same spot as the marker you dragged.

You can also edit a place's or photo's details, or delete it entirely, by pressing either the "cogwheel" button (if the place has a photo or it's a published photo) or the "edit" button.