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The wildlife photographer's field notebook

A sett spotted in February, a run through the brambles, the hour the badger actually comes out. Spoor remembers your places and your visits — on a map that works without a network, which is exactly where there isn't one.

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A place open in Spoor: three dated visits as tabs, the name of the place, the identified species with its confidence level, the field notes and the weather on the day.

A sett, a hide, a pond. Every time you go back, it gains a dated visit.

The Spoor map: seven observation places set on a forested range, each coloured by its type, with the type legend and the action bar.

Your own observation types, coloured right through to the map. Your own free tags, stackable.

Entering an observation in Spoor: the GPS reading still refining, with its accuracy stated in metres.

By finger, by GPS, or from a photo's EXIF. The reading states its own accuracy.

Two species attached to the same observation in Spoor, one marked certain and the other probable.

Several species per observation: certain, probable, possible.

A species sheet in Spoor: the European badger, its photos, a gallery of tracks and a gallery of droppings, in dark theme.

Tracks and signs, range, photo galleries. Footprints and droppings included.

Downloading an area in Spoor: a rectangle drawn on the map and the size announced before starting.

Draw an area with your finger, the app tells you what it weighs, and off you go.

And also: the weather for the day and the place, fetched on its own. The screenshots come from a demonstration account — the places are made up — and they still show the French interface.

Why not a map app and a notepad?

	A map app, a notepad	Spoor
What it remembers	A pin on one side, notes on the other	A place, and the history of your visits
Out there	You need a network	Download the area, everything works off-network
The base map	Roads and shops	Relief, contour lines, land registry, aerial imagery
Your positions	Sent to the publisher	They stay yours

A notebook, not a network. Nothing is published, nothing is shared. No advertising, no third-party accounts, and the only audience measurement is anonymous and hosted on our own machines — and the base maps come from our server, so nobody but you knows where you have been looking.

Installing it on your device

Spoor adds itself to your home screen from the browser: icon, full screen, offline. Nothing to fetch from a store.

Android — Chrome, ⋮ menu → Install app.
iPhone, iPad — Safari, Share button → Add to Home Screen.
Desktop — the icon at the end of the address bar.

Without installing anything it all works too — including offline.

Questions

Does it cost anything?

Everything Spoor offers today is free, and will stay free. Features still to come may be paid for, to fund development and infrastructure.

My observation points — who can see them?

You alone. Every record carries its owner and every query filters on it. The detail is in the privacy policy.

Without a network, what is left?

Entering observations, photos, your places, and the map area you downloaded. You need a network for the weather, for species and place searches, and for sending — which goes out on its own once you are back in range.

Create an account

It is open, free, and all it takes is an email address to confirm. Spoor is young: tell me which ground you go out on, and I will prepare the map coverage for your area so the offline map is complete there.

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