Lokate

Lokate is the GPS tracking, logging and review tool built specifically for K9 SAR handlers.

Unlike generic tracking apps, Lokate understands canine search and rescue workflows. Record handler and K9 tracks at the same time, lay and import subject tracks for trailing problems, log every session against a form built for your discipline, and hand your tracks to CalTopo and other SAR mapping tools. Then look back across months of logs to see what your training actually says.

K9 MANAGEMENT
• Detailed K9 profiles: certifications, training history, vaccinations, vet, insurance and photos
• Expiry dates on certifications and vaccinations, flagged when overdue
• Pick which K9 you're running when you start an assignment
• Track by discipline (Trailing, Area Search, HRD, Water, Disaster, Avalanche)
• Filtering and reporting by dog and discipline

SMART TRACK RECORDING
• Simultaneous handler and K9 position tracking
• Hider, subject and flanker tracks, so a laid trail lands in the handler's assignment
• Geotagged clues and markers with photos and notes, from one pin button you configure
• Active Area with distance monitoring
• Weather collected automatically for every assignment
• Keeps recording with the screen off or another app in front

MAPPING
• Topo and satellite maps
• Heads-up display you compose: position, heading, speed, altitude, distance travelled, time on task
• Lat/Lon, USNG or UTM at a tap
• North-up, heading-up or free orientation
• Map overlays (areas, paths, markers) from imported files
• Guide me back: tap a clue or marker and follow the line to it

TRAINING LOGS
• Ready-made training and test-day forms for trailing, area search, HRD, obedience and agility
• Build your own forms and pick-lists, with auto-values for fast entry
• Share forms as .lokate files so your team logs the same way

THE ADVISOR
• Ask, from inside a form, what a field is for and how to fill it
• Have a form reworked, or describe a new one and have it built, offered for you to save
• From an open log, ask whether what you wrote says what it should, and what to train next
• Only the form, its lists and the one open log are sent; never photos, tracks or other logs

QUICK REPORT
• Pick a dog, a discipline and a date range; Lokate tallies any form field across every matching log
• Answers grouped into charts with drill-down to the log behind each slice
• See at a glance which problems, terrains, distractions and aging you keep repeating, and which you never train

QUICK REVIEW
• Scroll through every past log for a dog and discipline, newest first, in one stream
• Saved presets so the review you run before each training day is one tap away

REPLAY & REVIEW
• Track replay at 2x, 5x or 10x with zoom-follow
• Trim messy starts and ends off a track
• Statistics (distance, speed, duration) and the weather report
• Photo and clue review with GPS metadata
• Copy tracks between assignments without a file round trip

DATA MANAGEMENT
• Import GPX, GeoJSON and JSON; create handler, K9 or subject tracks from imported data
• Export tracks as GPX or GeoJSON, logs as CSV
• Every assignment archives itself to your Google Drive with tracks, log, photos and an HTML report; a new phone restores everything, settings included
• Assignments shared with you stay in their own list
• Classify recordings as Training, Mission or Unspecified; filter by type, K9 and discipline

Free: record as hider or subject, keep and view everything, five handler recordings. Full Access, yearly or lifetime, unlocks unlimited handler recordings, logs, forms, K9 records and the advisor.

Lokate is built by handlers for handlers, on Android and iPhone.