Journeys

A journey groups several trips, for example the stages of a long tour or all trips to one country. A journey is a special kind of trip: it has its own story (an introduction to all its trips), title image, privacy and map, and it contains your other trips. A trip belongs to at most one journey, and a journey cannot contain another journey.

How do I create a journey?

  1. Open My Trips and press New journey (next to New trip).
  2. Fill in Journey name and Date traveled, and write the introduction in Story.
  3. Press Create.

Journeys are marked with a JOURNEY label and the number of trips in it, for example JOURNEY (3 trips). They do not count towards the maximum number of trips of your plan.

How do I add a trip to a journey?

  1. Open the trip and go to its Settings tab.
  2. Under Trip date, choose the journey in Belongs to journey. The list offers None and all your journeys.

The change is saved at once. To take a trip out of its journey, choose None again. The trip itself is never changed or deleted by this.

How do I see the trips of a journey in the trips list?

In the list and thumbnail views a journey has a triangle in front of it. Press it to show the trips of the journey and press it again to hide them.

  • The trips of a journey are shown only when the journey is open. They are not listed on their own.
  • In the thumbnail view the open journey is followed by a line break, its trips start on a new line, and another line break separates them from the other trips.
  • The triangle is dimmed while a journey has no trips yet.
  • Sort by applies to journeys and trips alike. A journey is placed by its own name or date, and the trips inside it use the same sort.
  • While you search or filter by date, all journeys are open so that you can see the trips that match.

How do journeys look on the trips map?

On the map of My Trips a journey is a larger pin (one and a half times the size of a trip). The trips that belong to a journey are smaller and gray. When you point at the journey, its trips turn red or green again (red public, green private) so you can see which ones belong to it.

What does the map of a journey show?

The Map tab of a journey shows the tracks of all its trips together. You do not draw or upload tracks to a journey: Geofoobar keeps simplified copies of the tracks of its trips and updates them whenever you add or remove a trip, or change the tracks of a trip in it.

  • The copies are in the order of the trip dates, so the journey can be played as one animation and exported as a video or image like any other map. See Maps.
  • The start and end of every track stay exact. Only the points in between are thinned out (at most 500 points per track, fewer if your plan's limit of vertices per trip requires it), and the time of the remaining points is kept.
  • You can style the tracks and locations of the journey on its map, and your style is kept when the copies are updated.
  • The tools that change tracks (upload, drawing, splitting, simplifying and deleting) are hidden on a journey, because its tracks come from its trips.

Who can see a journey and its trips?

A journey has its own Journey privacy in its Settings tab, just like a trip.

  • Public journey: other people can see it in the feed and on your profile, and its post lists the trips of the journey that are public. Private trips in it stay hidden.
  • Private journey: nobody else can see any trip in it, even trips that are set to public. Make the journey public again and those public trips are visible again; the privacy of the trips themselves is not changed.

To appear in the feed, a journey needs a story and a position like any trip. See Feed.

How do I export a journey to PDF?

Use the share icon on the journey's card (the Trip tab) and choose PDF. The PDF has the story of the journey followed by the stories of all its trips in the order of their dates.

  • If the journey is yours, all your trips in it are printed, also the private ones.
  • If somebody else exports your public journey, only your public trips in it are printed.

When you export from the trips list (Export trips), a journey is printed together with all its trips, also those hidden by your filter. Trips without a story are skipped. See Trips.

What happens when I delete a journey?

Open its Settings tab and press Delete journey, then confirm. Only the journey is deleted: its trips stay and become stand-alone trips.

Why can I not find a journey feature in the mobile app?

The mobile app does not know journeys yet. They are synchronised like normal trips, so you will see a journey as an ordinary trip there.