Live tracking

We offer each par­tic­i­pant live track­ing dur­ing the event by run­ning a free app pro­vided by our spon­sors Xarepo AB and IT4U Swe­den AB. This means that the au­di­ence and friends back home can see where you and all other par­tic­i­pants are on the course live, di­rectly here on the web.

As participant you make the event both easier to survey and more enjoyable to follow if you choose to participate in live track. Therefore we of course want as many as possible of the participants to join.

Instruction video

The in­struc­tion video below (in Swedish) de­scribes every­thing you need to know to use live­track in the event. The text on this page also con­tains the nec­es­sary in­for­ma­tion and is avail­able in Eng­lish.

The live track app

The app is called Xarepo Live Tracker and can be down­loaded now today for An­droid and Apple phones:

• Xarepo Live Tracker for An­droid
• Xarepo Live Tracker for iOS

The app uses the mo­bile phone’s GPS to con­tin­u­ously track your lo­ca­tion, which is sent to a server about every ten sec­onds so it can be dis­played on a map. It’s generic, ie you can use it for any­thing you want, for ex­am­ple if you’re on a long train­ing ac­tiv­ity and want to share your po­si­tion with your friends. Nei­ther reg­is­tra­tion nor user ac­count is re­quired, and to look at the map there’s no need for an app. You just share a unique link that any­one can open in a web browser. So you can try the app today on your next work­out if you want.

In ad­di­tion to every­day use, by scan­ning a QR code the app can be set for an event, which is how it will be used for Stor­uman Gravel. Track­ing and tim­ing are then au­to­mat­i­cally ac­ti­vated when the event starts, and all par­tic­i­pants using the app are shown on the same map that au­di­ence and of­fi­cials can watch. The app is also pro­grammed with the phone num­ber to the event leader so you can call if you have any prob­lems dur­ing the event.

You get the QR code when you get the num­ber tag / bib. All you need to do is in­stall the app, scan the QR code (with the app), enter your bib num­ber and put the mo­bile in your pocket (in­side a plas­tic bag if it can’t with­stand mois­ture). The app takes care of it­self. So there’s no need to pre­pare in any way ex­cept to have the mo­bile charged of course and an ac­tive sub­scrip­tion so that the app can con­nect to the server via in­ter­net.

There’s no re­quire­ment to use the app, but if you can do that it’s some­thing the au­di­ence and of­fi­cials will ap­pre­ci­ate.

If you have an ex­otic op­er­a­tor the cov­er­age may not be suf­fi­cient for the po­si­tion to be re­ported across the en­tire course, but as soon as you get within cov­er­age, your po­si­tion and track is up­dated.

If you are an or­ga­nizer and want to use the app for your event, con­tact us and we can tell you more.