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Track Photos ​

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Track photos are geotagged pictures you attach to a flight. StolWRX reads each image's GPS EXIF and pins it to the nearest point on the flight track. The photos then appear as little camera markers along the track on the map, and you can flip through them in a fullscreen lightbox.

Why Track Photos? ​

A backcountry trip without pictures is barely a trip at all. Track photos let you:

  • Geolocate every picture on the 3D globe, at the right spot on the correct flight.
  • Open a fullscreen lightbox and step through the photos in flight order while the map follows.
  • Share the whole flight (track + photos) as a public link.

Requirements ​

  • A paid subscription (uploading requires a paid plan).
  • At least one saved cloud flight (you need a track to anchor photos to).
  • Photos with GPS EXIF data (most phones and GPS cameras). Photos without GPS are skipped.

Uploading Photos ​

Use Flight tracks menu → Load geotagged photos (or the Mobile Menu Sheet). Pick one or many photos at once.

For each selected file, StolWRX:

  1. Reads the image's EXIF GPS latitude/longitude.
  2. Resizes/compresses the image to StolWRX's storage limits.
  3. Finds the nearest point on any of your cloud flights. If the nearest point is too far away (typical max distance is a few hundred meters), the photo is skipped.
  4. Uploads the compressed image with the row index, lat/lon, and altitude from the matched track point.

During the upload, the menu button shows a spinner. When finished, a toast summarises what happened: how many photos were uploaded, how many had no GPS, how many were too far from any flight, and how many collided with an existing photo at the same point (see Conflicts).

Conflicts ​

A conflict is when two photos match the exact same row of the same flight. StolWRX keeps only the first one. Re-uploading with a slightly different set of flights (or deleting the previous photo) makes room for the new one.

Markers on the Map ​

Each attached photo renders as a small camera icon on the flight track at the matched point. Hover (desktop) or tap (phone) a camera marker to open a thumbnail hover card:

  • Thumbnail — quick preview.
  • Description — the caption you set for the photo.
  • Edit — opens the editor dialog.
  • Zoom / open — opens the fullscreen Photo Lightbox.

Editor Dialog ​

The editor dialog lets you:

  • Preview the photo at larger size.
  • Edit the description (markdown not supported — plain text).
  • Replace the image file.
  • Delete the photo.
  • Open lightbox — launches the fullscreen slideshow.

Photo Lightbox ​

The lightbox is a fullscreen overlay for flipping through all photos of a flight in order. It has:

  • Arrow buttons (left / right) on the photo to go to the previous / next photo. Only visible when more than one photo exists.
  • Close button (top right) to dismiss the overlay.
  • Counter (top center) showing current / total.
  • Description caption (bottom center) showing the photo's caption.
  • Spinner — while the next photo is loading, the arrows/close/counter are hidden and a spinner is shown to avoid visual clutter.

Keyboard shortcuts:

  • ← / → — previous / next photo.
  • Esc — close.

On iPhones, the lightbox is drawn into a top-level portal so all tap targets are reliably active even while another dialog was open on the page.

Deleting Photos ​

Deleting the parent flight also deletes every attached photo from storage. To delete a single photo, open the editor and click Delete.

Sharing Photos ​

Shared flights include their photos. Recipients opening the public share link can browse the same markers and open the lightbox read-only — they can't upload or edit. See Public Shared View.

See also Batch Upload (GPS-tagged) for bulk import details.