Bikepacking and endurance races
Track long routes, sparse fields, route progress, standings, ETA, replay, and result corrections.
Live outdoor event management
MapCatch
Prepare an outdoor event quickly. Publish the route, invite participants, enable tracking and chat, and share one public event link.
During the event, organisers can update event parameters dynamically, including the route, with immediate effect.
One live map for positions, route progress, standings, checkpoints, arrival estimates, chat, and replay.
Event modes
MapCatch covers many types of events
MapCatch covers events where route progress, participant location, timing context, or field updates matter.
Because the primary channel is the mobile app, participants can do more than follow a line: receive updates, solve location puzzles, navigate with the map, choose optional routes, or combine these modes while spectators follow choices, progress, route changes, standings, ETA, chat, and replay from the public map.
Trail runs and adventure races
Support checkpoints, route choices, crews, followers, safety awareness, and live changes when conditions shift.
Stage competitions
Handle multi-day or multi-stage formats where each part needs its own route, timing context, and public story.
Treasure hunts and outdoor games
Use locations, clues, missions, proof points, teams, and scoring rules where the current setup supports them.
Challenges without one start time
Run self-paced or rolling-start challenges where participants begin at different times and still appear in one ranking context.
Orienteering and navigation events
Use mandatory or optional controls, route choices, and maps that reveal the right details at the right time.
Create, run, follow
Everything for a live outdoor event
MapCatch brings the practical pieces together: a route, participants, live positions, public following, chat, standings, replay, and result corrections.
It is built for events where the route, rules, checkpoints, and finish result all matter. Mobile-first controls cover event setup, route edits, live corrections, and messaging. Rental hardware, external trackers, paid access, and operations help remain quote-assisted.
Host an event
Create a mobile-based event, import a GPX route, set times, invite participants, publish the live link, chat with the field, and adjust results when needed.
Participant experience
Participants join in the app, see their route progress, receive official updates, and stay connected to event decisions.
Follow from anywhere
Friends, family, crews, and fans open the map in a browser to follow progress, standings, arrival estimates, chat, and replay.
Built for mobile organisers
Keep the control room in your pocket: publish updates, switch tracking sources, handle corrections, share links and event stories, and keep everyone informed without returning to a laptop.
Multi-source event management
Combine all tracking sources in one event map
MapCatch can cover tracking needs from small family afternoon challenges to professional events with demanding satellite tracking.
Use phones, GSM trackers, SPOT, Garmin, ZOLEO, uploads, organiser corrections, and quote-dependent timing integrations as the event requires. These sources can be combined in one event and changed during the event for planned setups or emergency fallback, such as a broken device.
Phone apps 
Mobile GPS trackers 
Satellite trackers 
MapCatch server
Live map, route progress, participant timeline, operational messages, standings, replay, and corrections.
What you can do
Live coverage without the heavy setup
Mobile participation. Participants stay connected from their phones while organisers and followers use the same web view.
Multi-source tracking. Phone positions, GSM and satellite updates, uploads, quote-dependent timing data, and manual corrections share one event view.
Run from your phone. Route publishing, participant checks, message blasts, and incident updates are designed for organiser workflows in the field.
Checkpoints and games. Control points, puzzles, missions, entry codes, and self-paced attempts fit into the same event flow.
Manage the event. Keep event details, participants, routes, tracks, messages, and result fixes in one place.
More ways to build your event picture
One map, several ways to capture field evidence
Many events can use participant phones. Others need rented Android phones, GSM trackers, satellite trackers, uploaded route files, quote-dependent timing data, or manual corrections.
MapCatch brings those inputs together and keeps a clear audit trail for each participant.
Phone app
SPOT, Garmin inReach, ZOLEO
Uploaded route files and activities
Timing, results, corrections
Live phone tracking
When frequent sync is enabled, fresh app updates keep the map, standings, ETA, chat, and route progress in sync.
Remote coverage
Satellite and dedicated trackers can help when phone coverage is weak or battery life is critical.
If the real event needs a correction, the change stays visible instead of hiding the original data.
Estimate-based updates can fill sparse sections, but they are clearly marked so organisers can keep visibility and context.
Organizer sales
Planning a race, challenge, or live outdoor event?
Tell us the event format, participant count, location, dates, and tracking mix you are considering.
We can help you shape the setup and prepare a quote before race day.
Safety visibility
Useful awareness, not emergency dispatch
MapCatch can help hosts notice stale updates, off-route movement, no movement, and low battery when the tracking source supports it.
It is not an emergency service and does not guarantee remote-area coverage.