1. What is MereTrax?

MereTrax organizes your travel in two layers: Voyages and Locations. Think of a Voyage as a chapter and each Location as a page within that chapter.

2. Creating Your First Voyage

Click Add Voyage in the navigation. The form below appears. Fill in the title, dates, pick a bright line color, and choose how you traveled.

▲ The Create Voyage form — this is exactly what you will see when you click "Add Voyage"

Choosing a Line Style

3. Adding Locations

Once you have a voyage, add your stops. There are five ways to add a location. Use whichever is fastest for each stop — you can mix and match freely.

4. Bulk Photo Import New!

Have a folder of vacation photos? Bulk Photo Import lets you select dozens of JPEGs at once and turn them into map locations automatically. Photos with GPS and date data in their EXIF metadata are saved instantly — photos missing that data go into a Review Queue where you fill in the gaps before saving.

Find it under Locations → Bulk Photo Import.

5. Viewing Your Map

Click Show Map to see all your voyages on a live interactive Google Map. Each voyage appears as a colored line connecting your locations in date order, with a numbered pin at each stop. Click any pin to see its name, date, description, and photo.

MereTrax — Show Map — Your Adventures

Your Voyages

European Summer

Pacific Sailing

US Road Trip

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Paris, France
June 4, 2024
"Climbed all 1,665 steps!"

▲ The map view — colored routes, numbered pins, and clickable popups showing your notes and photos

Map Tips

• Click any pin to see the location name, date, description, and photo (if one was saved).
• Scroll to zoom; click and drag to pan. All voyages appear at once.
• Use Pure Map for a full-window, navigation-free view — great for screenshots.
• The Print / Export button saves your map as a PNG image — ideal for framing or adding to a travel blog post.

🌐  Globe View New!

Switch to Globe View (via the Maps menu or the link on Show Map) to see all your voyages on a spinning 3D globe. Your routes appear as colored arcs on the Earth's surface, just like the flat map — but with a whole-planet perspective.

• Hover over a pin to see the location name.
• Click a pin to open a card below the globe showing the location name, date, voyage, and photo.
• Drag to rotate the globe; scroll to zoom in and out.
• Use Active / Inactive Voyages toggle at the top to switch between voyage sets.
• Use Take Picture to save a PNG of the globe, or Email Globe to share it via Gmail or Outlook.

▲ The actual Globe View — your voyages as colored arcs on a spinning 3D Earth.

6. Sharing & Journey Logs

🔗  Sharing a Voyage Map

Click Share & Journey Logs in the navigation. You can enable a public share link for any voyage. Anyone with the link can view your voyage map on a clean, branded page — no account or login required.

▲ Toggle public sharing and journey logs per voyage — independently

📕  Journey Logs — Your Travel Story

A Journey Log is a richly formatted travel narrative for a single voyage. Click Edit Journey Log on the Share page to open the editor. You can write a story, add map snapshots, upload photos, and embed videos. Everything is displayed in a clean, public page anyone can read.

• Write a narrative — a free-form travel story in your own words.
• Insert map snapshots — save the current voyage map view as an image directly into the log with one click.
• Upload photos (JPEG, PNG, WebP — up to 8 MB each).
• Embed videos (MP4, MOV — up to 200 MB).
• Drag and reorder all media elements into the sequence you want.

7. Sample Adventure — See MereTrax in Action

Here is a fictional voyage called "The Grand Eastern Tour" built with MereTrax to show you exactly what your travel map can look like. Eleven stops across three continents, connected by a great-circle route in orange. Click any numbered pin to read the stop's story.

📍 Click any orange pin to see the location details. This is an interactive Google Map — just like your own map will look.

This 45-day, 11-stop journey covers over 11,000 miles across Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia — and in MereTrax it's just one Voyage with 11 Locations. Add a second voyage in blue for a different trip and both routes appear on the same map, each in its own color.

8. Quick Tips & Navigation Reference

Tips for Getting the Most from MereTrax

• Personalize your page appearance. New! Go to More → Settings → Appearance to pick an accent color for your page frame and card borders, change the inner border style (dashed, solid, dotted, double), and toggle alternating row stripes on data tables. Your choices are saved and apply across every page instantly.
• Use More → Settings. Set your default input/output mode, voyage line type, map scope, and Talk Your Map In constraints so every new session starts your way.
• Log stops as you travel. The description field is your on-the-road travel diary. A sentence or two written in the moment will bring the memory back years later far better than a photo alone.
• Use one voyage per trip. Keep them separate so the routes stay clean. Give each one a distinct color.
• Photo locations are the fastest method for smartphone travelers. Just enable GPS in your camera app and upload photos as you go — no typing required.
• Dates matter. Locations connect in date order. If two stops have the same date, they connect in the order entered — so pick a meaningful date for each.
• Retire, don't delete. The "Retire" option on any location hides it from your map without losing it forever. Use this instead of deleting if you're not sure.
• Export a map snapshot for your blog, travel journal, or to frame on a wall — use the Print / Export button on the Show Map page.

Navigation Button Reference

Account Limits

→  Upgrade your account for unlimited travel tracking

9. Reporting a Bug

If something doesn't work as expected, you can send a bug report directly from any page.

🐞  How to Report a Bug

At the bottom of every page (when you're logged in) you'll see a Report a Bug link. Click it to open a small form where you can describe what went wrong. Your report is sent automatically along with the page you were on, so we can investigate quickly.

Good reports include:

• What you were trying to do
• What happened instead (what did you see?)
• Whether it happens every time or just occasionally
• The steps to reproduce it — e.g. "I clicked Add Location, filled in the name, then hit Save and got a blank page"
• What device and browser you're using (e.g. iPhone / Safari, Windows / Chrome)
• Any error messages you saw on screen

Suggestions and ideas for improvements are also very welcome — not just bugs!

You don't need to include your name or email — your account is already attached to the report.