Reading the map

The map is a picture of the place you are actually in — a piste map, a site plan, a floor plan — with people drawn on it. It is not a street map, and it does not scroll off into the rest of the world. Why is on why FriendTrack shows a venue image.

What is drawn on it

• You. Your own Position (what other apps call your location), drawn where your phone thinks you are.
• Everybody in your Groups who is sharing. Each person is drawn with their photo, or their initials if they have not set one.
• The named parts of the venue. These are Areas of Interest — a stage, a lift queue, a bar, a car park — drawn by whoever made the map. Some show their name all the time; others only when you tap them, which the map’s creator chooses per Area.
• The Meeting Point, if your Group has set one, marked with a flag.

Tap a person to see who they are and when they were last placed. Tap an Area to see its name and who is in it.

When your friends are not on this map

Everyone you see is on the same Map as you. If a friend has a different Map as their Current Map, they are not drawn here — the app tells you which one they are using and offers to install it. See which map a friend is on.

When you are not on the map yourself

If your Position falls outside the picture — you are in the car park of a venue whose map stops at the fence — the app says 📍 You are outside this map rather than drawing you at the edge and letting you believe it. Your friends inside the venue are still drawn normally.

The strip along the top

The capsule at the top of the map is about you: whether a session is running and how long is left. It is not about your friends. Reading it is on Am I still sharing?.

Directly under it the app puts one line when there is something worth saying — that your phone has no signal for a Position, that location is switched off, or that you are looking at a cached map because you are offline. Only one of those appears at a time, and the one you can act on wins.