Organize participants with tags

Attach flexible category/value tags to participants to filter, group, and segment them across the tracking map, leaderboard, and Safemap.

A tag attaches a category: value label to a participant, for example club: Team A, wave: 2, nationality: GER, or status: DNF. A participant can carry several tags at once, one value per category.

Expand the TAGS column to get one sortable, filterable column per category.

• Filter the tracking map and leaderboard by category and value.

• Group participants in the player sidebar, e.g. by wave or club.

• Show tag values as columns in the leaderboard.

• Suppress Safemap alerts for participants matching a tag, e.g. Status: DNF.

Filter the tracking map

Spectators filter the starter list by tag category and value, narrowing down to the participants they care about.

Participants without a value in a category are grouped under an implicit "none" option when filtering.

The current filter selection can also be set directly via URL, useful for pre-filtered links or embeds.

parameter: filter=<tag-1>:<value-1>,<tag-2>:<value-2>

URL with filter tags age "20" and nationality "GER": https://racemap.com/player/MuenchenMarathon21-marathon#filter=age:20,nationality:GER

URL parameters

Group participants in the sidebar

Group the player's participant list by a tag category, e.g. by wave or club, so spectators find related participants at a glance instead of scrolling a flat list.

Event visualization

Filter categories in the leaderboard

Tag values also drive filter categories and columns in the leaderboard. Disable specific tag values to hide them from the leaderboard, e.g. exclude an "Orga" class.

Leaderboard

Suppress alerts in Safemap

In Safemap, protected zones suppress alerts by location. Tags work alongside that: filter participants by tag in the participant navigation, for example to focus on a Amateur group or exclude an Status: DNF tag from monitoring.

Safemap

Configure how tags appear

For each tag category, configure in the event's Visualisation settings:

• Visible as filter — show or hide the category as a filter option for spectators.

• Group starters by — use this category to group the participant list in the sidebar.

• Default filter values — pre-select values when the tracking map loads.

• Order — the display order of categories relative to each other.

Each category has a Group, Visible and Default setting; drag the handle to change the order. The preview on the left updates as you edit.

The status tag category

One tag category is special: status (also recognized when named state). Use it to mark a participant's race status — the suggested values are DNF, DNS, DSQ, and FIN.

• Safemap shows a colored badge for each value and, by default, only lists participants without a status in the Starters and Alerts lists — adjust the "Participant Status" filter to see DNF/DNS/DSQ/FIN participants too.

• The leaderboard excludes DNF, DNS, and DSQ from ranking — they show a dash instead of a rank, and DSQ rows are dimmed. FIN does not affect ranking.

• When editing the status column in the participant list, DNF, DNS, DSQ, and FIN are suggested automatically.

Use exactly these uppercase values so Safemap and the leaderboard recognize them. Any other value in the status category is treated like a normal tag.

How to add tags

There are three ways to get tags onto participants: manually, via CSV import, or via automatic sync.

Manually

Manage tags directly in the participant list of your event, under Participants.

• Edit a tag value inline, cell by cell, for a single participant.

• Add a new tag category as a column.

• Set a tag value on several selected participants at once.

• Remove a tag category from selected participants.

• View the distribution of tag categories and values across all participants.

Select participants, then Actions → Edit tags to set a category on all of them at once. A new category appears as a column.

CSV import

Add a tags.<category> column for each tag category to your participant CSV file, e.g. tags.club;tags.wave. Each cell holds the value for that participant.

Import with CSV file

Automatic sync

Connect a generic hosted data source or a RACE RESULT list to keep participants and their tags synchronized automatically. The source provides tags.<category> fields (or a tags object) per participant; the sync picks them up on every run.

You can also restrict the sync to a single tag category and only import participants with matching values.

Generic importRACE RESULT import

Related pages

Import with CSV fileGeneric importEvent visualizationLeaderboardURL parameters*/starters, athlete data