Group features
Once your group exists and your crew has joined, here's what a group actually does for you.
Filter the live map to your crew
The most-used group feature is map filtering: show only the activities of your group's members, so you can focus on your team during a live session instead of the whole world.
- On mobile, the social map has a group filter button. While a group is your current group, the map shows only that group's members; tapping the button lets you switch the current group or turn filtering off. The filtering happens server-side — the live map only returns your group's members.
- On the web, the live map can be scoped to a group as well, labelling the view with the group and showing how many people are currently watching.
This is what makes a group feel like a team: at an event or a club ride, everyone sees everyone in one filtered view.
Shared visibility between members
Members of a group can see each other more easily than the general public:
- The group page aggregates every member's tracks into one activity feed and calendar.
- For each member you can see their live track, last known location, and the device they're on.
- Live broadcasts started with the group selected are shared into the group automatically.
In short, joining a group opts you into sharing your activities with that crew — and seeing theirs.
Group challenges
A group can have an associated challenge (a contest with turnpoints and a leaderboard). On the group's web page, a Group challenges panel lists each challenge with its waypoint count, participant count and a link to its leaderboard.
This turns a group into a friendly competition: a club can run a monthly challenge, an event can score everyone automatically. Creating and configuring a challenge is done from the challenges tools; once created, it can be attached to your group.
Premium groups
Groups tie into Premium in two ways:
- Managing a group is a premium feature. The Group Manager on the web, and creating / deleting a group in the app, require your own Premium account.
- Joining a premium group grants the premium experience to every member while that group is selected — no premium timer, no upgrade reminders — even for a free user or a guest. This is ideal for events: the organiser's premium group lifts the whole field for the day.
Joining a group, recording with it, and using the member tools as described in the Academy do not require the joiner to be premium — only the owner who manages it.
Groups vs. scenes vs. events
- A group is an ongoing set of people who track together.
- A scene is a curated multi-track 3D replay.
- An event is an organised competition with turnpoints and leaderboards.
A group of athletes at an event naturally appears as a scene in the 3D player — the three concepts layer together.