Uploading an image to PicTrax is a very simple process.
You may upload images to your public profile, so that other PicTrax users globally may see whet you’ve seen, learn from your experience, and navigate to that location.
Alternatively you may upload to your private profile to; keep track of your own mapped content in a private capacity; keep track of location based subject matter such as film and photography locations, or any site you’d like to return to in the future.
IMPORTANT: For automatic pinning, your phone will need to have location services turned on – so your images contain GPS metadata, and you must grant PicTrax permission to access the location metadata. Denying access means you will have to search and pin the location manually.
Step 1: Hit the upload button (centrally positioned blue plus button). Accept gallery access and go to your gallery where you may select an image from one of your folders.
Tap on the image to select it.
Step 2: PicTrax will look for GPS meta data in the image file and if GPS metadata exists, the image will be pinned at that location.
If there is no GPS meta data the map will show the world map and you will have to search and navigate to the capture point on the map provided, and tap the appropriate place to map-pin the image.
Check that the image has been pinned correctly – either automatically or manually. If incorrect, adjust the pin by navigating to the correct location tapping once on the map to pin the image.
Confirm that this has been done correctly by tapping the button to move to the next step.
Step 3: PicTrax will look for GPS meta data in the image file and if GPS metadata exists, the image will be pinned at that location.
If there is no GPS meta data the map will show the world map and you will have to search and navigate to the capture point on the map provided, and tap the appropriate place to map-pin the image.
Check that the image has been pinned correctly – either automatically or manually. If incorrect, adjust the pin by navigating to the correct location tapping once on the map to pin the image.
Confirm that this has been done correctly by tapping the button to move through the prompts.
Note: As PicTrax will go to your gallery – which may contain several thousand images, we advise either ‘favouriting’ an image (which will place the image in an easily accessible ‘favourites’ album), or moving the images you’d like to upload to a newly created folder for easy retrieval.
We recommend the Snapseed app for image editing prior to upload, as this application leaves the location metadata intact through the editing process.
Many other apps such as Lightroom will strip the metadata. Most other social media applications also remove the GPS metadata, so uploading images that have been published and subsequently retrieved from these platforms will most likely result in having to manually position images on the map during the upload process.
Upload in high data environments for optimal performance.
Get directions to your chosen destination
Step 1: Access the Detail View of the image by tapping on the on-map thumbnail.
Step 2: Tap the directions icon. The GPS data will be sent to your maps app, so you can navigate as you would normally, in your own language.
Once you have uploaded an image to either public or private profile, it is a very simple process to alternate between them. You may change an image’s public/private status as many times as you like.
Step 1: Access the Detail View of any image you have uploaded.
Your images will be available from your profile and also from Feed View, my filtering on ‘My Pix’.
Step 2: When in Detail View, access the vertical ellipsis menu – this menu is only present on images that you have uploaded to PicTrax. You will find this menu in the top right corner of the image.
Step 3: Tap on the ellipsis menu and use the toggle button to make the image public or private.
X out of this interface. The image will now be available under either the public or private tabs in your profile according to the change you’ve made.
Sometimes user accidentally upload duplicate images, or decide they don’t like the composition. You can delete an image from your profile in three easy steps.
Step 1: Access the Detail View of any image you have uploaded.
Your images will be available from your profile and also from Feed View, my filtering on ‘My Pix’.
Step 2: When in Detail View, access the vertical ellipsis menu – this menu is only present on images that you have uploaded to PicTrax. You will find this menu in the top right corner of the image.
Step 3: Tap on the ellipsis menu and use the toggle button to make the image public or private.
X out of this interface. The image will now be available under either the public or private tabs in your profile according to the change you’ve made.
You may report an image for removal or review.
Step 1: Access the Detail View of the image in question.
Step 2: Tap on the ‘Report’ icon.
Step 3: Select a reason for reporting from the list and tap ‘OK’.
Users may ‘Collect’ both their own and other users’ shared destinations. This function will assist in holiday planning, event planning, film or photography shoot location scouting etc. In fact collections can be made for any purpose you desire such as ‘favourite dive sites’, ‘road trip destinations’, ‘bucket list destinations’, ‘NZ family holiday must-dos’… the list goes on. Collections hold associated images in one place, and allow users to see the collected images in isolation, which is great for travel itineraries. Users can see clusters of map pins, which could indicate the area warrants a longer stay.
Imagine you are planning a self-drive trip to New Zealand.
There are many places you would like to see, such as Hobbiton, Rotorua, and Milford Sound to name just a few.
You can collect all your intended destinations to a collection. Creating a collection is simple:
Step 1: Go to your profile page by tapping the ‘user’ icon in the bottom right of the screen.
Step 2: Tap the ‘Create a collection’ button in the top of the ‘collections’ section.
Step 3: Give your collection a name, description and hashtags and tap the ‘Done’ button. You can now add images to the collection.
Users may ‘Collect’ both their own and other users’ shared destinations. This function will assist in holiday planning, event planning, film or photography shoot location scouting etc. In fact collections can be made for any purpose you desire such as ‘favourite dive sites’, ‘road trip destinations’, ‘bucket list destinations’, ‘NZ family holiday must-dos’… the list goes on.
Imagine you are planning a self-drive trip to New Zealand.
There are many places you would like to see, such as Hobbiton, Rotorua, and Milford Sound to name just a few destinations.
You can save pix of all your intended destinations to a collection – then access this collection to plan appropriate lengths of stay in particular regions due to the number of sites to visit, then get directions to those sites when you are there.
Step 1: Find a collection you wish to save for future reference. You can tap on the collection name to open the full collection, see a preview of the collection by swiping the thumbnail towards the right, and open the fly out menu by tapping the blue tab to the right.
Step 2: In the fly out menu, tap the bookmark icon.
Step 3: You will now be able to access the collection from your collections tab in your profile.
NOTE: To see the collected map pins on a full screen map, tap the blue fly out menu tab and select the ‘Collection Map’ icon. This will display just the collected destinations in isolation. Each destination in the collection can be navigated to by tapping the directions icon from ‘Detail View’
You can like any image – even your own! When you apply one or more likes – this process is referred to as a ‘Like Action’. If 5 people like your image, you will have earned 5 x the current like action value.
Check the current ‘Like Action Value’
Step 1: Access the Detail View of any image by tapping on the on-map thumbnail of that image.
Step 2: Tap the heart icon to apply one ‘like’ to the image.
Tapping the heart icon again will remove the likes your action has applied.
Note:
When you have created a great collection, you can publish the collection so others can find and download it. Publishing a collection is very easy.
Step 1: Tap the blue fly-out menu on the right of the collection you wish to share.
Step 2: Tap the ‘Publish’ (globe) icon and confirm you wish to publish the collection.
To unpublish the collection, simply tap the globe icon again.
This function is available to subscribers only.
If you have a collection of destinations you wish to share with a specific user or users, without making the collection public, both the sending and receiving users must be active subscribers, and must be following each other.
Step 1: Tap the blue fly-out menu on the right of the collection you wish to share.
Step 2: Tap the ‘Share’ icon and select a user from the available list. If there are no users in the list, you are not following each other.
Step 3: Tap the ‘Share’ button. The user you have shared to will receive a notification that they have been sent a collection.
You can tap the ‘follow’ toggle button to follow or unfollow another user in several interfaces throughout PicTrax.
To search for and follow a specific user, follow these steps;
Step 1: Go to your profile and tap on the ‘following’ tab.
Step 2: Search for the user’s username.
Step 3: Tap the toggle button associated with the user you wish to follow.
You can access all of a user’s publicly accessible images by tapping on their profile image.