A walking route tracker records the path you take, not just the straight-line distance between your start and finish. Use it for an outdoor stroll, a familiar loop or a walk around the neighborhood.
Live tracking is different from route planning
With live GPS tracking, your phone provides a sequence of location readings while you move. TrackMyDistance filters readings that look too noisy or implausibly fast and adds the accepted distances between them. You can see the recorded route on a map and save it at the end.
A route planner works before you leave: you select points and estimate a path between them. TrackMyDistance does not currently offer route drawing, turn-by-turn directions or route import. If you want to “map my walk” ahead of time, use a route-planning tool rather than starting a recording at home.
Record an outdoor walking route
- Open the walking tracker on your phone and choose Walk.
- Allow location, then wait outdoors for a usable reading.
- Keep your browser visible as you walk. Check progress while safely stopped.
- Finish and save to review distance, duration, route and average speed.
New to browser tracking? Follow the phone setup and troubleshooting guide first.
Street walking, trails and laps
Streets: tall buildings can distort or block location readings, so the line on the map may not exactly follow the pavement. GPS distance is an estimate, not a surveyed route length.
Trails: trees, terrain and signal gaps can affect the recorded path. The app is not an emergency navigation device or an offline trail map. Do not rely on it to find your way back.
Laps: very tight turns or small loops can be missed or shortened by GPS sampling and noise filtering. For a measured track, multiplying the known lap length by your completed laps may be more useful than GPS. Ten complete 400 m laps, for example, is 4 km before any extra walking.
Why a GPS tracker cannot measure treadmill distance
On a treadmill, your body stays in roughly the same geographic location while the belt moves. GPS cannot read the belt distance. Use the treadmill’s display or estimate distance from speed and time with the walking distance calculator.
Share a walk thoughtfully
Live sharing can let someone with your sharing link view your activity while the tracker sends updates. It can also reveal sensitive places such as your home. Share only with people you trust; a link is not an emergency-monitoring service. Saved account activities and live links are excluded from the public search sitemap.