GetTracks v1.3.0 — Polarsteps Integration

What's new in v1.3.0

Polarsteps Integration

Import your Polarsteps trip steps directly into a GetTracks project. Steps appear as amber camera pins on the map alongside your Strava/GPX tracks.

• Settings → Polarsteps Connection… — enter your username and remember_token cookie to authenticate
• Add track → From Polarsteps… — browse and import trips; only steps with a description or photos are imported (skips empty location-only steps)
• Support for buddy trips — enter a trip URL or ID directly when you are not the trip owner
• Imported steps are persisted in the .gettracks project file and survive app restarts

Waypoint Panel

Clicking a waypoint pin or list row now opens a dedicated detail panel (replacing the elevation chart area) showing:

• Step name, trip name, and date
• Full narrative description (scrollable)
• Clickable photo thumbnails — opens a full-screen photo viewer with ← / → / Esc navigation

Map Hover Tooltips

Hovering over a waypoint pin on the map shows a floating tooltip with the step name, a preview of the description, and up to 5 photo thumbnails.

Waypoints Section

A collapsible Waypoints section below the project list shows all imported steps. Supports:

• Multi-select with Shift+click, Ctrl+click, and Ctrl+A
• Right-click → Remove, or press Del / Backspace to delete selected waypoints

Appearance Dialog

Settings → Appearance… consolidates all map visual settings in one place:

• Tile provider dropdown (OpenStreetMap, CartoDB Positron, CartoDB Dark)
• Size sliders and colour pickers for Transportation icons, Start & End Point circles, and Waypoint pins
• Changes preview live on the map; Cancel reverts; Apply persists to ~/.config/GetTracks/settings.json

Bug fixes

• Photo viewer: try large thumbnail → small thumbnail → full-resolution CDN in fallback order; show the actual error if all fail
• Photo viewer: added SSL context to avoid certificate errors on some Windows setups
• Waypoint multi-select: Shift+click no longer collapsed the selection back to one item
• Elevation chart always visible and correctly refreshed after import

Installation

Download GetTracks-1.3.0-windows-x64.zip, extract, and run GetTracks.exe. No installer required.

v1.2.0 — Multi-select, transport icons, persistent elevation

What's new in v1.2.0

Map & visualisation

• View Project button: instantly shows the full project map using stored polylines — no API call needed
• Multi-activity selection: select multiple tracks in the project list to see a combined map view and aggregated elevation chart
• Transport segments now appear correctly in the Preview & Export map overlay
• Custom QPainter silhouette icons for transport types (train, flight, ship, bus) and activity types (run, ride, hike, walk, swim, bike)

Elevation chart

• Elevation chart is now visible immediately on app open / project load
• Dynamic X-axis tick marks with "nice" step sizes (always ~5 divisions, adapts to track length)
• Elevation profiles are cached on the Activity object and persisted in the .gettracks project file — no re-fetch on next open
• Missing Strava elevation profiles are batch-fetched in the background when viewing multi-select or full project

Authentication & tokens

• Strava token now stored in ~/.config/GetTracks/tokens.json — survives app restarts without re-authenticating
• Fixed OAuth callback failing on Windows 11 (localhost resolves to ::1 / IPv6)
• Strava 401 errors now trigger an automatic token refresh; clears token and shows a friendly message if refresh fails

Import

• Add track → Transportation…: modal dialog with visual icon picker (train/flight/ship/bus), position selector with auto-fill from adjacent activities
• GPX elevation data stored directly on imported activities and persisted in the project file

v1.1.0 — Native Qt Map Renderer

What's new

Native Qt map renderer

Replaced QtWebEngine + Folium with a pure-Qt slippy map — no Chromium bundled.

• 1-finger drag to pan, 2-finger pinch to zoom, scroll wheel zoom
• Smooth fractional zoom — tiles scale continuously between integer levels, no stepping
• Tile caching: LRU in-memory + persistent disk cache (~/.gettracks/tile_cache)
• Tile layers: OpenStreetMap, CartoDB Positron, CartoDB Dark

Size reduction

Version	Bundle	Zip
v1.0.0	209 MB	~90 MB
v1.1.0	104 MB	43 MB

Installation

Download GetTracks-v1.1.0-windows.zip, extract and run GetTracks.exe. No installer required.

GetTracks v1.0.0

GetTracks v1.0.0 — First stable release

Features

• OAuth authentication with Strava (token persisted in system keyring)
• Activity cache — activities stored on disk; app loads instantly on relaunch, incremental sync fetches only new activities
• Date & type filtering with a persistent filter panel
• Interactive map (Folium/Leaflet) with GPS polyline visualisation and persistent tile layer selection (OpenStreetMap · CartoDB Positron · CartoDB Dark)
• Elevation profile chart — fetched per activity, rendered with QPainter
• Stats bar — total distance, elevation gain, moving time for the current filtered set
• GPS export to GPX — full-resolution Strava streams, with pre-export map preview, concatenate/separate track mode, and timestamp/elevation toggles
• Toast notifications for all transient status messages
• Splash screen with a programmatic GPS-track merging illustration

Installation

1. Download GetTracks-v1.0.0-windows-x64.zip and extract it
2. Copy your config/config.json (Strava client ID & secret) into the config/ folder inside the extracted directory
3. Run GetTracks.exe