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Download and start TrailRunner. You will see an empty document.
Read the basic instructions in the gray overlay.
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Use the zoom Tool to find the location you are currently located.
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Alternatively, if you know a city nearby, you can use the Locations browser to search for international cities.
Press the Locations Button in the Toolbar. The left pane will show you two tables. The lower table has a search field in that you can enter the name of a city nearby.
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Drag and zoom the map until you found the exact starting point.
When using the Zoom-Tool, hold the ⌥-Key to zoom out again and drag a zoom rect to zoom in.
Close the locations browser by pressing the close button in the lower left corner.
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Depending on the kind of outdoor exercise you do, the displayed background map may not be useful.
The one above was fine to find the location you normally drive to by car.. But for your outdoor exercise you might need better resolution maps.
TrailRunner offers three main map types you can chose from.
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Map Sources
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Open the document Settings by pressing the Settings button in the lower left corner.
The default map source is Roads. Other available Map sources are Satellite and Hiking.
OpenStreetmap is a community created alternative to commercial maps that sometimes has very high detail but mostly not.
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In this example we‘ll try the Hiking maps.
After the loading has completed you‘ll see a different background map in your document that has a very high level of detail.
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Please be aware of the fact that not all map sources are available in all areas of the world so you may need to trial out what‘s the best source for your location. You can alwaxs switch between map sources, depending on the task you are doing.
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Creating tracks
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Before you can create a route you need to set up a track network. Routes will use this for their body.
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Tracks have a starting and an end way-point. These connect tracks with each other.
To create tracks and way-points, use the layout tools in the lower right corner.
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To create a first starting way-point, select the way-point tool and click on the location where to start from.
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Now select the track tool. First click onto the starting way-point and then click through the path of your track.
Use the Backspace Key (⌫) to remove the last click and use double-click when you have reached the end of the path you want to describe to close the track.
A path would typically end at a potential crossing when its physical end is reached.
Please note that TrailRunner shows the real world distance as a track-label.
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To later modify a track path, you can drag track-points to a different location.
Hold the ⌘-key down and move your mouse over a selected track. Notice the small gray track-points on the track.
Do a ⌘-click onto a track-point to select the track-point and ⌘-drag the track-point to a new location.
Use ⌘Z to undo modification like this.
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Up to this point you where creating and then modifying a single track, next comes how you further complete your track network.
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Add more tracks to the edging way-points of existing tracks.
To create a crossing inside an existing track, you need to split the track.
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Use the way-point tool or the track-tool and ⌘-click onto a crossing point to split a track.
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From the new crossing-point on, start to create a new track.
Continue with this technique until you get a decent track-network that contains several tracks and crossing-waypoints.
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In addition to creating tracks and way-points you can further attribute tracks by giving them names, descriptions, color and ratings.
Open the info pane to edit attributes.
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Summary: What you learned so far are the basics to create a net of tracks by importing route after route and supplementing your net of tracks. More techniques on modifying and maintaining your network for tracks can be found in the ForeRunner Tutorial.
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Creating Routes
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After you have build a decent net of tracks you can use manually layout new routes or use the calculate route feature of TrailRunner to find new route combinations for a given distance.
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To create a new route, select a starting way-point in the map.
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Press the New Route Button in the Toolbar.
On the left, the route calculation pane will open. You can now either click on tracks or way-points in the map (to manually create a route) or you can let TrailRunner automatically find one for you.
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To manually layout a route, just select a waypoint far away the starting waypoint.
Use the Backspace Key (⌫) to remove the last click and use double-click when you have reached the end of the route you want to describe.
Alternatively you can let TrailRunner either find the whole route or just finish the way back with a given distance for the result.
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For the automatic route calculation, enter a target distance into the distance field.
Press the Calculate button.
Tip: When you manually create routes, double click on the last way-point to close the route.
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The new route will be added to the list of available routes.
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If you don‘t like the exact course of a route, you can modify the course of a route.
To include an alternative track, reroute the route by dragging one edging way-point onto another as shown in the picture-sequence on the left.
The route will then include the alternative track to reach the way-point you dragged to.
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More operations to modify a route are available in the Routes menu.
Other operations are Duplicate a route and adjust its distance or reroute a selected route to include a selected way-point.
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Summary: What you learned so far is how you build a network of tracks and create or modify routes within.
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Working with Routes
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Following some quick tips on how to work with routes.
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To download elevation data for the course of a route, select the route and choose File > Import > Load Elevation data
For every point inside your route (every clicked position), available elevation data will be loaded from an internet service.
As a result you will see an elevation profile in the upper chart area.
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To manually edit elevation data, use the information pane.
For selected way-points and track-points inside a track the elevation value can be changed there.
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Summary: Please note that File > Import > Download elevation data will only load elevation data for the current selection and there only for points that have no elevation value set. To reload elevation data first use File > Consolidate > Remove Elevation data.
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Interactively follow the course of a route, use the route slider in the map map view.
To analyze parts of a route, click into the elevation chart and drag the mouse to the right. You will notice that the lower map will hilight the same area as in the chart above.
To zoom the lower map in for more detail, click in into the lower map, zoom in and then drag-select the upper chart as described above.
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You can even zoom the upper chart in and out by using the same techniques as with the lower map.
Just first click into the view to show TrailRunner on which of both you want to perform the zoom operation.
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Summary: These where the basics tools and techniques you might want to know about TrailRunner. Enjoy!
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For more information, tools and techniques, consult the TrailRunner Help.
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Type keywords into the search field to find help pages to certain topics.
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