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Review Your Walk, Point by Point

Google Play QR and Dotori GPS Tracker

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidactor.gps

After a walk, you may remember the distance but forget where you slowed down. Dotori GPS Tracker saves your journey. Revisit the route and inspect speed and elevation at each point. Journeys with step history also show how your steps changed along the way.

The map shows where you went, while the charts help you inspect the movement at the selected point. The same selection shows time, speed, elevation and available cumulative steps. No screen matching is needed.

Start recording before you leave

Choose Start recording to open the recording options. Save points by time, distance, or a combination requiring both conditions. In the combined mode, meeting only one condition does not save a new point.

Turn on step recording here if you want steps included in the journey.

  1. Set the recording options and start the journey.
  2. Pause when needed and resume when you move again.
  3. At the destination, stop and choose to save the journey.
  4. Open the saved journey from the list to review it.

Recording continues with the screen off. Location reception and power-saving settings can leave gaps. Check location access and background restrictions before a walk you want to keep.

Open the route you saved

A saved journey includes a route preview. Follow the turns through a park or see which streets you used on a trip. Open it in the app's map to examine the full route.

A saved journey's route preview

Sections separated by a pause or a GPS reception gap are not joined into a continuous recorded path. The gap shows where the phone did not measure the route.

Move one selection through the map and charts

The detail screen places the route map, speed chart, elevation chart and point selector together. A cadence chart also appears when the journey contains the necessary step history. Drag across a chart or move the selector. The red map point and vertical chart marker move together.

Read the selected time, speed and elevation below the charts. Use the arrows at the ends of the selector to move one saved point at a time. Drag to scan the whole journey. Use the arrows to inspect points around a sudden change.

The horizontal axis follows the order of recorded points. Time between points can differ. Chart width alone does not tell you how long you stayed somewhere. Check the displayed timestamps as well.

Find the sections where speed changed

With speed colouring enabled, slower parts appear blue and faster parts red. Locate a colour change on the map, then move through that area in the chart. The colours use the minimum and maximum speeds of that particular journey. Red on two different days does not necessarily mean the same speed.

The maximum-speed control selects the fastest recorded point. Check neighbouring points too. A single GPS spike does not prove you actually moved that fast.

Compare elevation with movement

Select a rising section of the elevation chart to find the same place on the map. You can then see whether you slowed on a hill or changed pace after returning to level ground. The record helps you recall the route; it does not establish why your speed changed.

Elevation is the height at the selected point. Total ascent in the journey statistics adds upward changes across the trip. Those values describe different things. Missing elevations are not invented, and measurements can contain errors.

Read steps at the selected point

Journeys recorded with step history can show the cumulative steps up to the selected point. The cadence chart shows steps over the recent minute. It shows a dash when history is insufficient. This can happen after starting, pausing or missing data.

An older journey with only a final step total cannot gain a point-by-point chart retrospectively. The phone matches sensor step history to route timestamps. It does not locate every individual footstep.

Distance comes from GPS and steps come from the phone's step sensor. A supported sensor and, where required, physical activity permission are needed. Pausing the journey also pauses step accumulation. Opening the app alone does not turn this into an automatic all-day pedometer.

Steps, distance and duration for a recorded journey

Keep places and back up the journey

Save a viewpoint or rest stop as a location and add a note. Locations saved during a journey also become points of interest for that journey. Give the journey a name you will recognize later, such as an evening river walk.

Records stay on the phone without an account. Save a backup before changing phones. GPX export or sharing carries a route to another app. JSON backup keeps the app's data, including steps. Current GPX export does not include steps.

Record your next walk and save it when you return. Move through the journey to inspect a section. Watch the English app demonstration for the map and journey workflow.

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