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Outside activity Web App
for fun, wellbeing and in aid of charity

With this Web App you can follow one of our aMazing trails (virtual mazes in public parks), on your mobile device, or take a GPS guided nature walk or trail.

If you are a Charity you can develop your own trail for charitable purposes.

aMazing trails are a new type of outdoor trail consisting of a pirate themed virtual maze game, which you have to solve using the GPS and compass features on your mobile device. The virtual mazes are located in public parks across the UK.

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Sign up to participate and try an aMazing trail, entry is FREE.

This outside activity Web App is FREE, our only request is that if you enjoy the maze, please make a donation to Alzheimer's Research.

Web Apps do not need 'downloading', just run the web page on your phone.

Alzheimer's Research

Lin & Peter created the Walkwyse Web App and aMazing trails as a means of raising money for Alzheimer's Research. Lin was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2019.

Please click on the Donate button above and support this vital research.

Sign up to take one of our Nature Trails:

Discover the nature & history of a location whilst following a GPS guided trail

Discover a location (formal gardends, historic grounds, nature 'safari') by finding points of interest

Discover about Buster the bear and his friends whilst following a GPS guided trail

Just-trails: Take a GPS guided trail in the countryside by following a trail of points on your phone, no need for paper maps! We call these walks "Just-trails" as we do not provide any commentry about the nature or history along the trail!

The control panel, is at the bottom of all Web App screens, and includes an audio player for control of the audio messages used extensively whilst on a trail. The 3 icons active on this page are as follows:

Home: Touching the Home icon always returns you to the default information on each Web App page.

Help: Click on this icon to view help about the page you are on.

Private:Enter a code to access a private nature trail

Support: If you have any questions or problems using this software please contact support@walkwyse.com

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aMazing trails are virtual mazes, located in UK public parks, which you follow with your smart phone's GPS.

Go to Maze

User guide

Nature trails consist of walks and trails where the nature and in some cases the history related to the trail are described with audio, images and video whilst you walk.

As an example our GPS guided walk around the National Arboretum at Westonbirt describes the trees and history of the arboretum at relevant GPS trigger points around the park.

There are a number of types of walks and trails as described below.

Private code: A private code can be used to access any of the walk/trail types below. This approach is used when testing a walk/trail prior to making it public or when it is designed for a closed user group such as a school or charity walk event.

Discovery Walks these walks provide information about the history and nature related to specific points of interest on a walk.

Location Explorer this type of 'walk' allows someone to explore a location without following a predefined route, ideally suited to large formal gardens and historic houses/castles. It can also be used by schools to create an exploration of local nature within their school grounds

Just-trails are GPS guided trails which are created using the Walkwyse Web App. The Just-trail software allows you to save photos at any GPS point as well as pre-defined audio direction messages - similar to car Sat-Nav systems! These trails are designed for families and to be as inclusive as possible, with good parking and facilities close by.

Buster the bear trails are for the family, where the children can discover about the grizzly bear and some of his animal friends from the Rockies, whilst following a GPS guided trail.

If you have already been supplied with a charity account you can access the walks or trails you have created.

To develop new walks or trails click on the Desktop Creator link on the additional menu, see the Web App control tab.

Please contact support@walkwyse.com if you wish to create your own walks or trails. In general this facility is only provided to charitable organisations such as registered charities or Education establishments.

Control of this Web App mainly takes place from the control panel at the bottom of this screen. There are two main areas on this control bar, 1) The media controls and 2) Action icons

Media Controls

Touching this symbol will replay any media (audio, video and images) during a trail

Play/Pause 'button'

Skip to end of media currently playing'

Action icons

Touch this icon to view help about the page you are on.

Make a donation directly to Alzheimer's research on our Just Giving page

Enter a code to access a private walk/trail

Just trails which you follow using the location services on your phone

Discover about Buster the bear and his friends whilst following a GPS guided trail

Discover a location by finding points of interest

Discover the nature & history of a location whilst following a GPS guided trail

Go on an aMazing trail

Home

Touching the Home icon always returns you to the default information on each web app page.

Additional menu:

Touch this icon at the top right of this screen to see the following links

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Update the software whenever you open the page

About

About EduTechWyse Ltd, the company that created Walkwyse.com

Terms

Terms and conditions

Privacy

Privacy information

Desktop Creator

Run our sophisticated desktop creator and build your own trail. This menu item will only be activated once you have been allocated an account.

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Your account details

Support: If you have any questions or problems using this software please contact support@walkwyse.com

Help: Trail creator

This page allows you to create a trail of points on a map using the GPS functionality of your mobile device, no mobile signal or WiFi is require during this process. As you progress around your trail you can add photographs as well as audio directions at relevant points. We call such points a Point-of-Interest, or POI for short.

You would normally include a photograph if it helps the walker know where to go, highlights a great view or something that the walker could miss. Audio directions are to help both the visually impaired as well as a walker who wants to keep their mobile device in a pocket whilst following the trail - similar to a car Sat-Nav system.

Please make sure your iPhone mobile device display Auto-Lock (in Settings > Display & Brightness>Auto-Lock) is set to Never to prevent the device from going to sleep whilst you are creating a trail. Android devices will be automatically kept awake during the trail creation process

The icons at the bottom of the screen perform the following actions.

Delete all the trail points. You may need to do this if you decide that the trail was incorrect after you have completed it and saved it to the cloud. Once deleted you can create a new trail and save it after completion.

Trail record button. This button turns red when a trail is being recorded. To stop the recording just touch this button, to restart touch the button again.

Save a photograph at the current GPS position (where you are standing) and create a Point-of-Interest (POI). On touching the camera icon your mobile device's camera will be activated so you can take a photo. On accepting the photo you can enter a title for the image before saving it in the web app. You can optionally add an audio direction with the photo, the purpose of combining audio with a photo would be where a predefined audio direction on its own may be insufficient to guide the walker where to go.

Save a pre-defined audio direction at the current GPS position and create a Point-of-Interest (POI).

Enable map compass tracking, this will cause the direction of the map to always point in the direction you are walking

If you drag the map at any time you can always re-center it to your current GPS position by touching this "find-me" icon.

Additional controls:

Click on this Menu icon at the top right of this screen to see the following links, hide the menu by clicking on the Menu icon again

Upload

Click on this menu item and then on Upload Trail link when you are ready to save your newly created trail and points of interest, along with any photos and audio directions, to the cloud. Once this is complete you can touch the Home icon to return to the myWalkwyse home page. You will now be able to view & edit this trail using the Trail point editor

Pocket mode

Click on this menu item and then on the on/off slider switch to turn pocket mode on and off. When pocket mode is on all screen touch events are turned off and hidden. That is, except to the turn pocket mode off.
Pocket mode's main purpose is to prevent accidentally touching a button/icon when recording a trail. Of course if you wish to add a photo POI or an Audio direction POI you will need to turn pocket mode off.

Help: Trail point editor

This page allows you to edit an existing trail with its points-of-interest (POI), this required your device to be connected to the Internet with a good WiFi or 4G mobile signal. The trail points are numbered to make it easy for you to see the sequence. You may have to zoom in to see them, you can either use two fingers or the wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out. It is often best to edit your trail using a device with a large screen such as as PC, MAC or tablet.

It is important that the trail point sequence is maintained with trail point 1 at the start and the the highest trail point number at the end of the trail. In general every time you add or delete a trail point the software will update the trail and maintain this number sequence. However you can by mistake drag a trail point from one location to another which can cause the points to go out of sequence, so be careful!

The icons at the bottom of the screen perform the following actions.

Move POI

To move a POI just drag it to the new position. A POI should in general be close to or ontop of a trail point. If a trail is overlapping, i.e. one section of the trail is on top of another section of the trail then you will be asked to decide which trail point the POI should be associated with.

Add a POI: You can add a new POI to the trail.A POI should in general be close to or ontop of a trail point. If a trail is overlapping, i.e. one section of the trail is on top of another section of the trail then you will be asked to specify which trail point the POI should be associated with.

Delete a POI: delete a POI and any associated media from the trail.

Media on/off: When you touch a POI any media (audio/image) attached to this point will play/display. Sometimes it is helpful to stop this happening whilst you are adding/deleting or moving a POI.

When you click on a POI a new form will appear with 3 buttons. If you already have an image or audio attached to this POI then this will also be displayed on this form

Add Image

Add Direction

In order to help the visitor find their way around the trail without having to watch the screen all the time, it is good to add some audio guidance. This can of course be done when you are creating the trail but can also be done here if you wish to modify what you did on the trail. On clicking on this button a scrolling horizontal selector of audio messages are shown. Click on the one which you think is appropriate for this position on the trail and click on the Yes button, otherwise click on another audio etc. This list of audio directions will from time to time be extended to include some more general directions you may need to complete a trail

Finish

Finishes this function and deselects the POI

Move trail point

To move a trail point just drag it to the new position using your finger or a mouse.

Add trail point: to add a trail point click on this icon then click on the amp where you want to put a new trail point. You can drag the trail point afterwards if you need to change its position.

Delete trail point: to delete a trail point you need first to click on the trail point, which will turn red, and then click on this icon. If a trail point is red you can click on it again and it will turn back to yellow.

Discovery Walks

General users

Discovery walks have been created as an introduction to the history and/or the nature of a particular walk or trail. These walks deliver fascinating audio commentry which is triggered at certain GPS points along the trail, for instance if you are next to a particular tree of special interest or an historical location. Walks vary in length from 4 to 7 km.

Charitable organisations

Discovery walks should normally be created and edited in the Walkwyse desktop creator, however if you wish to create the trail of GPS points or test the walk before going public this is the place to be!

Click on one of the following icons below your walk image to create a trail or test the walk

Create a trail of points. This is an automatic function which runs on your mobile device, no mobile signal or WiFi is required whilst creating the trail. Once you have completed the trail any points of interest (including photos) you have created can be uploaded from your mobile device to the cloud. You can then edit and add additional information to the trail using our sophisticated Walkwyse desktop creator running on a PC or a MAC

Test the Discovery walk as though you are a visitor.

Buster the bear trails

General users

Buster the bear trails have been created as a way of entertaining children on a trail. These trails deliver fascinating audio commentry (by Buster the bear!) which is triggered at certain GPS points along the trail. Buster the bear (a grisly bear from the Rocky mountains) talks about some of his animal friends as well as some fascinating facts about bears in general. Walks vary in length from 4 to 7 km.

Location Explorer

General users

Location explorer 'walks' have been created as an introduction to the history and/or the nature of a particular location - such as a formal garden or historical site. These Explore 'walks' deliver fascinating audio commentry which is triggered at certain GPS points, for instance if you are next to a plant of special interest or an historical location. There is no defined trail, users just wander around the location and multimedia information is triggered at specific GPS points on the site.

Charitable organisations

Location Explorer walks should normally be created and edited in the Walkwyse desktop creator, however if you wish to create the trail of GPS points or test the walk before going public this is the place to be!

Click on one of the following icons below your walk image to create a trail or test the walk

Test the Discovery walk as though you are a visitor.

Just-trails

General users

Just-trails as the name implies are simply GPS guided trails, these trails are very easy to follow on your mobile device. The device can even be in your pocket whilst you walk as you are provided with audio directions - just like your car's GPS system. You can however always look at where you are on the trail and how far you have to go. No mobile signal is required on the trail as the complete trail should be downloaded before you start - ideally at home.

Charitable organisations

This is the main place for creating and editing Just-trails!

Steps required in creating a trail

Step 1

Create a map and trail title/description (see Add trail button below)

Step 2

Create a trail using the Trail Creator, add any photographs and audio directions you think necessary to make the trail easy and enjoyable.

Step 3

Add a set of maps which help the walker find the trail and a set of images which help promote the trail.

Step 4

Test the trail, by taking your Just-trail.

Step 5

Send the private code (displayed above your trail image) to a charity walking group or event group to enable them to take the trail. These trails can also be made public such as the two examples shown on this page

Buttons:

Add Trail

Click on this button to begin creating a new Just-trail.

On clicking this button a new Trail form will be displayed. Enter a name for the Trail and select the country and its location name. The location name can be a post code, town , city, national park name etc. On completing the name and commencing to enter the description, a "Create Map" button will appear on the form. Click on this button to see a Google map of the location. You should zoom in (or out) until the map covers the area of your proposed trail.

The description is an important part of your trail as it is the key text displayed to a user about the trail. Make sure this description includes items such as whether there is a car park, toilets or refreshments nearby. In addition provide a good description of the trail including whether there are any steep hills, muddy paths, stiles etc. When you have completed the descriptionvclick on the save button.

Click on one of the following icons to create and test your trail. These icon will only be visible once you have created the map and trail information for your first trail.

Delete delete the selected trail including all images and audio content, this action cannot be undone!

Edit map and trail information Edit the 'top-level' information about this walk, this covers modifying the map zoom and location as well as the description of the walk. If you have already created a trail on this map then moving the location too far or zooming in/out too much could remove the trail from view. In this situation you would really need to delete the walk and start again. The description of the walk should include information both about the walk itself (flat, hilly, muddy when wet etc.) as well as whether there is car parking, toilets or refreshments nearby. Remember that these trails should be created for families both young and old!
At the top of the image of your trail(s) you can see the trail length (once created) and the Trail code. The trail code is an 8 digit number which you can give to friends and family in order that they can try out your trail.

Edit media Add, edit or delete the images and audio attached to the walk. Only images which are NOT attached to a point of interest (POI) can be edited or deleted. To add or edit these image you must use the trail point editor. When adding an image you can select whether it will be the image that appears on the walk home page or on an image 'carousel' on the walk home page.

Trail point editorThis is an on-line trail point editor which means each time you modify/move a point the trail database is updated over the internet. Editing allows you to add and delete trail points as well as add and delete points of interest (POIs) more information on this process is available once the editor is loaded. It is best to edit the trail points using a larger screen device such as a tablet or PC/Mac.

Trail creator create a trail of points, add photographs and audio directions to create a 'Sat-Nav' trail. This is an offline function, no mobile signal or WiFi is required, whilst creating the trail. Once completed the trail and any POIs will need to be uploaded from your mobile device.

Go on a trail To test out your trail click on this icon. This runs your trail in the same way as any other walker and will allow you to check that it is working ok

Help - trail images

Click on one of the following icons to delete or edit an image, images and audio connected to a point-of-interest can only be deleted or edited in the 'Trail point editor'

Delete delete the selected selected image, this cannot be undone

Edit image title Edit the title of the image, please note that any audio directions you have added to the trail can only be deleted/edited in the trail point editor

Buttons:

Add Image

On clicking this button a small form will be displayed along with a select image (Choose file, Take photo or photo library) from your device. Please select the image using your device file system, when complete fill in the image title.

You can select whether this image will be the one image (Home page image) that is displayed as representing your trail, or as one of a number of images displayed in the scrolling (or rotating) images on the trail page, seen when a visitor goes on the walk.

Add Maps

In order to help the visitor find the trail you need to create a set of maps. Don't worry, clicking this button, will automatically create 3 maps; 1)Regional view Google map showing the location of the trail, 2)Local view Google map showing in more detail the location and 3)A trail map.
Please note that this button will not be displayed if you have already created the maps. To recreate a new set of maps you will need to delete all three existing maps.

Finish

Finishes this function and redisplays your existing Just-trails

About Walkwyse

EduTechWyse Ltd is a not for profit company, set up by Lin & Peter Horne, which is responsible for the development and support of the Walkwyse outside activity Web App and its aim of raising funds for Alzheimer's Research.

The Walkwyse Web App is a great way to enjoy a self guided trail or maze using your mobile phone, with GPS guidance and multimedia stories making an interesting walk even more enjoyable. Walking is a natural way to get the exercise we all need as well as being extremely important for mental health & general wellbeing.

In 2019 Lin was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the one thing she enjoys the most is walking, as does Peter. So creating an outside activity Web App for families, which anyone with a smart phone can access, seemed an obvious thing to do as a means of raising money for Alzheimer's Research.

Donate to Alzheimer's Research

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As a technologist Peter has always been interested in seeing how technology can be applied to every day life. Having also trained as a guide at the National Arboretum at Westonbirt in 2018, he was well versed in leading walkers around a trail and providing them with fascinating facts about nature and history. During Covid lockdowns (when guiding was not possible at Westonbirt) he set about the challenge of converting this knowledge into brief audio/visual stories which could be GPS triggered at relevant locations around a walk with a webapp. Thus Walkwyse was born!

More recently the product has been significantly enhanced to support complex trails such as the new aMazing trails, which are virtual mazes. A competitive element has been included where individuals can try to get the higheste score by completing the maze in the shortest time & distance whilst collecting virtual treasure. Great fun for all the family!

In addition to Alzheimer’s research EduTechWyse supports Alzheimer's Society, Parkinson’s, Devon Air Ambulance, Field Studies Council (FSC), Devon Wildlife Trust and Children In Need. Lin & Peter are keen to support both education in the outdoors for the younger generation as well as help fund research to find cures for some of the devastating diseases of age.

aMazing trail Prize Competition Rules
"a fun outside virtual maze game requiring skill and a smart phone"

Take one of our aMazing trails in a public park near to you and get to the top of the leader board by collecting as much treasure as possible in a quick time. You can take the maze as many times as you like and keep improving your score to become top of the leader board.

If there is not a maze in a suitable public park near you, please let us know and we will try and create one in time for you to take part in the competition.

Competition rules

The main purpose of this prize competition is to raise money for Alzheimer's Research through particpants making a donation via our page on Just Giving, click on the button below.
Donate to Alzheimer's Research

via JustGiving.com

Due to bad weather over the festive season the prize competition will now finish at 4pm on 3/1/2023. Prizes are awarded using the following rules:
- All prizes will be drawn at random from those individuals who are top of each aMazing trail leader board
- The Amazon vouchers will be emailed to the winners using the email address they used to login to this Web App.
- To participate in an aMazing trail you must have a smart phone with GPS location services and ideally with a digital compass service.
- You can at any time take an aMazing trail to try to improve your knowledge of the maze and obtain a higher score.
- Only those individuals who complete the aMazing trail (that is they reach the finish) will be entered into the prize competition.
- Only those individuals who are top of an aMazing trail leader board and have posted/tweeted on their social media with the @WalkwyseUK (facebook), @walkwyse (Instagram & Twitter) will be entered in the prize draw.
- The developer reserves the right to remove entries from the leader board which have scores which are due to bugs in the software, the user will be informed of the removal of the score from the leader board.

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aMazing trails - an introduction

The aim of the game is to have fun and achieve the highest score. Scoring is based on a combination of time, distance and treasure collected, with points deducted for 'walking-the-plank' and using hints.

Help: Click on this icon to view help about the page you are on.

Trail info: Click on this icon to see information on this aMazing trail.

Competition: Click on this icon to see the competition rules - only relevant when the aMazing trail has a "Prize Competition".

Donate: Click on this icon to make a donation to Alzheimer's Research via the Walkwyse page on the Just Giving website.

View Leader board: Click on the icon below the relevant aMazing trail image to see its current leader board.

Go to aMazing trail: Click on the relevant aMazing trail image or the walk/trail icon (below the image) to preload the aMazing trail when you have a wifi connction or a good mobile signal. Please note that a mobile signal is required whilst walking on the aMazing trail in order that the web app can automatically save your score to the leader board.

If this is the first time you have used Walkwyse you will be directed to the Device Check page, to make sure your device can run this web app.
You will need to pre-load the aMazing trail before going to the maze location, it is best to do this when you are at home and have a good wifi connection or good 4G/5G signal.
Read the overview of the aMazing trail and the health and safety information before clicking on the Start Walk button.
Make sure the mobile device audio is switched on, this is the main method of communications from the web app.
Once the GPS (location service) on your mobile device has settled you will see a red cross in a circle which is where you are located. This will now track you until you complete the maze.
Walk to the start - where the pirate ship is located on the map.
The game will only start, the timer and distance measures, when you reach the start "pirate ship"
The webb app is controlled by the icons at the bottom of the screen, click on the help icon whilst on the maze to understand these icons

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Park || Town || County
Touch a name above to re-order the park name list below

Request an aMazing trail for your local park

User name

Allow emails

Address

NOTE: An internet connection is required to create a trail map, so please make sure you do this whilst you have a mobile signal or WiFi. Once the map is loaded you do not need an internet connection and can go to the location to create the trail.

When you have selectd the area of the map where your trail will be located please press the Use Map button below.

Add/Edit Walks

Map select

Name

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Location

Town
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Description

B B I I U U

Content

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Search strategy

Event

Status

Trail character

Audience

Private code

Virtual mode

Select Walk for deletion

Walk select

Select Walk to Import

Walk select

Discovery Walks

Add Trail

Competition rules

Enjoying one of our Walks & trails couldn’t be simpler.

Choose your walk by clicking on a Walk icon, below the images above
Preload it on your mobile device
Head to the location, don your walking boots and enjoy the experience!
Make your donation to the charity by clicking on the donate button during the walk

Select aMaze

Media tracks

Discovery Walks

Add image

Add Maps

Add direction

Finish

Audio Directions