Event visualization

The visualization of races and activities is optimized for mobile usage.

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Leaderboard

Upscaling to the largest events: The visualization is optimized for mobile devices broadcasting the largest sports events in real-time. Like predictive live tracking at München Marathon with 3,000+ participants in one interactive map https://racemap.com/player/MuenchenMarathon21-marathon

Or feed your own applications with real-time geodata using our APIs for live location data.

Customizations

Interactive event map with different tracks & contests, start- & finish zone, and refresh points.

• Color of tracks and of markers,

• Points of interest with names, emojis or choose a pictogram,

• Content in flags (bib respectively name)

• Multiple contests and stages.

Points of interest (POI): Are displayed and selectable in the map, in the sidebar, and in the elevation chart.

Viewport: set the initial view of your tracking map spectators see when loading the map.

• Mapbox style e.g. terrain, satellite, hybrid, and dark, or choose custom map tiles

• Longitude and latitude of the center of the map,

• Zoom, direction, and pitch.

Live, (net)replay & progress on track

Live and replay are shown in the same tracking map with one URL, providing a comprehensive visualization of the activities from many athletes. Full flexibility to stream different kinds of activities:

• geodata from everywhere (decentralized) and

• geodata from any time.

Instant replay

Instant replay during the running event: Skip back to watch early scenes of the race and go back to live stream. Exciting and useful information is easily accessible for the speaker, event staff, and spectators. Replay the recorded race in fast motion during and after the event.

Net replay

Net replay visualizes contests with differently starting athletes, such as wave start or virtual race. Synchronize the recorded activities to replay all athletes together. Net replay simulates that all participants are together at the same time.

Progress on track

Progress on track: Activities from everywhere are pinned to a specific track. That way the markers move on this track, virtually. Spectators understand easily who is heading and participants protect their personal data as their real locations are not visible.

Options pinning the dots to the shadowtrack

There are three options pinning flags to the track. Each option affects how dots are moving in the interactive map. Watch the above scene with differently pinned flags to the track.

• Magnetic (NEW): Within a 50 m distance from the track the flags are pinned to the track. Geodata with 50+ m distance is shown as raw coordinates. The grey flag moves smoothly through the curve (pinned to the track) and the white flag is shown beside the track (raw data).

• None: The visualization shows the coordinates as raw data. Disadvantage: Due to +/- 25 m accuracy of GPS devices, the locations don't precisely match the track and the grey flag cuts the curve.

• Always: The visualization always shows all coordinates on the track. For that reason, the grey flag moves smoothly through the curve. But the white flag is pinned to the track, also. It is not possible to see that the white flag lost track.

Navigation of participants and points of interest

Search & select

Hover

Filter

• Filter and search participants and points of interest.

• An arrow moves on the track while hovering over the elevation profile.

• Selected participants are highlighted as a flag and the visualization centers automatically.

• Select respectively hover athletes and points of interest in the list, in the map, and in the elevation profile.

The tail feature shows the recorded activity of a selected participant. The length of the tail corresponds to the set duration. Purple tails for selected participants: https://racemap.com/player/dam-tot-damloop-home-edition-10em_2020

Spectators can display the race numbers of all participants in settings (can be set as default in event builder, also).

Info tab, elevation, flow chart, statistics & leaderboard

Info

Elevation

Race flow

Statistics

Leaderboard

This feature requires a configured exactly one shadowtrack

real-time statistics for each participant:

• distance to go and duration to finish (prediction),

• accumulated ascent & decent,

• distance from start,

• speed - (If there is a shadowtrack speed value based on mapping on the shadowtrack or average speed value of the ten latest received locations.),

• gap.

This feature requires exactly one configured shadowtrack

Leaderboard

Own location & distance marker

Own location shows the location of your device in the tracking map, which is helpful for spectators and event staff at the race ground. Own location is visible on your device only and is not sent to our server.

Distance markers count the distance along the shadowtrack in the unit system of the event - kilometers, miles or nautical miles. Switch them on per event with Show distance marker in the editor's Visualisation tab. The option appears once the event has a shadowtrack.

Zoom decides how many markers are shown and how big they are. An overview shows only every fifth or every twentieth marker, at a size that keeps the route visible; zooming in adds the markers in between and enlarges them. Each bubble carries the color of the track it measures, so events that share a map stay apart, and pointing at a track in the participant list shows that track's markers alone. Markers follow their shadowtrack: hide the track and they go with it.

The same markers are drawn on the map in the editor and in Safemap, so a route shows its distances while you are still drawing it.

The slider shows either the duration of the event or the time of the day in two moveable scales. The foreground represents the total duration of the event from start to end to quickly slide through the total event. The scale above shows a section of the total event duration. Zoom this scale to show 5min or 2hr depending on how accurate you want to place the time in the visualization.

Sponsor logo

The sponsor logo add-on places advertising logos in your Tracking Map and Leaderboard. Each logo links to the sponsor's website, so spectators can tap or click it to open the advertiser's page. Configure it under Add-ons → Sponsor Logo once the add-on is activated.

Add one or more logos

You are not limited to a single logo — upload as many sponsor logos as you like. For each logo you set the image (JPG or PNG, recommended aspect ratio 3:1, max. 300×100 px), the target website, a hover hint, and alternative text for screen readers. You can also choose how the logos are aligned (left, center, right, space-between or space-around).

How logos are shown on desktop and mobile

The visualization displays as many logos as fit the available width, side by side. Logos are rendered smaller on phones than on desktop, so fewer of them fit on a mobile screen. When you have more logos than currently fit, the Tracking Map and the Leaderboard rotate through them in the order of your list, one frame per minute, so every logo gets screen time over the course of your event. Logos marked Always visible appear in every frame. If all your logos fit, they are all shown at once.

The Preview panel below your logo list shows every frame of that rotation for the Tracking Map and the Leaderboard. Switch it to Mobile to see how many frames a phone needs. If a logo is too wide to fit next to your Always visible logos, the preview names it, because it will never be shown on that screen size.

Pricing

Every sponsor logo is billed at the sponsor add-on module price, per event cycle. Each additional logo you add adds one more module fee — the total is simply the per-logo price multiplied by the number of logos.