Polarsteps and FindPenguins accounts - share so we can follow each other

[Luka]

I am planning to use Polarsteps and/or Find Penguins for the first time for my next camino. Maybe it would be nice to share accounts here, so we could follow each others caminos?

Find Penguin: https://findpenguins.com/caminoluka
Polarsteps: https://www.polarsteps.com/LonnekeLodder

 

[trecile]

I am planning to use Polarsteps for the first time for my next camino. Maybe it would be nice to share Polarsteps accounts here, so we could follow each others caminos?

Many of us use Find Penguins, which is very similar to Polar Steps and share our blogs.

Plan, track, and share your trip

Automatically and effortlessly track your travels, simply with your phone in the pocket. Create a beautiful travel journal and enjoy the benefits of our leading travel app.

findpenguins.com

 

[Luka]

Ah, I wasn't aware of similar apps! Maybe change the name of the thread in something more general?

 

[Luka]

Just made an account on Find Penguin as well!

 

[trecile]

@Luka - I already followed your Wikiloc tracks for the coastal route after Santander.

 

[Lleslie]

I'm on the camino portuguese at the moment from Lisbon, almost finished, currently in Pontevedra, espiritual varient tomorrow - don't know how to create a link but https://www.polarsteps.com/lindaleslie23

 

[Luka]

@Luka - I already followed your Wikiloc tracks for the coastal route after Santander.

Great to hear they were useful

 

[Luka]

I'm on the camino portuguese at the moment from Lisbon, almost finished, currently in Pontevedra, espiritual varient tomorrow - don't know how to create a link but https://www.polarsteps.com/lindaleslie23

I just requested to follow you

 

[Lleslie]

Done I am a day behind tho!

 

[Jensjaunt]

I am planning to use Polarsteps and/or Find Penguins for the first time for my next camino. Maybe it would be nice to share accounts here, so we could follow each others caminos?

Find Penguin: https://findpenguins.com/caminoluka
Polarsteps: https://www.polarsteps.com/LonnekeLodder

I have requested to follow you to see how it works thanks for sharing! I walk in the fall and think it will be great to share

 

[Luka]

I have requested to follow you to see how it works thanks for sharing! I walk in the fall and think it will be great to share

I just uploaded a trip of last year. Would be good to know if you get an automated translation in English (I wrote in Dutch).

 

[Jensjaunt]

I have requested to follow you to see how it works thanks for sharing! I walk in the fall and think it will be great to share

@Luka I can see them! Wonderful - while not directly translated there is a link on each page that takes me to Google for translation. Great! jen

 

[CWBuff]

@ivar - didnt you create something last year that allowed us to link our FP profiles to The Forum?

 

[CWBuff]

@Luka - just requested you on FP

 

[Luka]

@Luka - just requested you on FP

You should be able to follow me now. Although there is nothing to see yet...

I started uploading former holidays on Polarsteps. I am still doubting which one to choose (or both). Polarsteps seems to be more common in my surroundings, but Findpenguins has the cool Camino group. This is the link: https://findpenguins.com/group-tracking/camino-de-santiago/live

 

[Kildare]

Camino Portuguese | FindPenguins

A private adventure by The 3 musketeers

findpenguins.com

 

[Luka]

I have just been testing FindPenguins and find it rather user unfriendly on my laptop. Hopefully it will be better on the app. Most likely I'll do (more elaborate) updates in Dutch on PolarSteps and shorter ones in English on FindPenguins. Leaving in a couple of weeks for the Sanabrés!

 

[henrythedog]

I have just been testing FindPenguins and find it rather user unfriendly on my laptop. Hopefully it will be better on the app. Most likely I'll do (more elaborate) updates in Dutch on PolarSteps and shorter ones in English on FindPenguins. Leaving in a couple of weeks for the Sanabrés!

It’s annoying in not recording multiple ‘footprints’ in order within a multi-day walk.

 

[peregrina2000]

It’s annoying in not recording multiple ‘footprints’ in order within a multi-day walk.

Are you sure you haven’t inadvertently changed the date you want the footprint to have? If you go to the edit function in the “out of order” post, you can see the date that it has been assigned. I think it may automatically assign the date you start to write the post, but I’m not sure — it might be the date you actually post it. But in any event you can change it.

I just saw that FindPenguins has added what I think is a very nice feature — at the end of your trip, the posts get automatically re-ordered, in chronological order first to last. So someone reads about your 2023 camino after you’re done, it will show up with the first post at the beginning. While you’re posting, obviously, the top post is the most recent post, so the thread is in reverse chronological order.

 

[Luka]

Is there a way to go to the shared Camino de Santiago group in FP? I always have to look up the link again here. I signed up, but can't find a way to get there when in FP. I mean this group:

Camino de Santiago: FindPenguins Group Tracking

A group tracking for all travelers walking the Camino de Santiago, powered by Casa Ivar, the home of the Camino Forum & FindPenguins. See where other ...

findpenguins.com

 

[Luka]

You should be able to follow me now. Although there is nothing to see yet...

I started uploading former holidays on Polarsteps. I am still doubting which one to choose (or both). Polarsteps seems to be more common in my surroundings, but Findpenguins has the cool Camino group. This is the link: https://findpenguins.com/group-tracking/camino-de-santiago/live

I am again having troubles... First of all, how do you find this group in the app or on the website if you don't have the URL? And second, how can I connect a future trip to that group? I created my trip, but it doesn't show up in the soon to travel section...

 

[CWBuff]

@Luka
seems if you click on the link you are providing and then click on the little info (!) icon this pops up:
A group tracking for all travelers walking the Camino de Santiago, powered by Casa Ivar, the home of the Camino Forum & FindPenguins.

See where other pilgrims are and communicate with them.

You are all more than welcome to join!
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/

Join

INTERESTED IN YOUR OWN GROUP TRACKING?
if you click on Join button and then sign in with your FP account - it all links

then click on FAQ and it tells you how to - basically all you got to do is activate the Tracker and it does the tracking for you

good luck

 

[Luka]

Thanks @CWBuff! The thing is, I already am a member. But only my former trip shows up there, not the new trip that I created. Might have to do something with that tracker then.

 

[CWBuff]

@Luka you know now that you mention it - only my "Camino" trip is showing. While not Caminos I took 4 trips since and I would think they would've indeed be visible
Perhaps its a question we may pose to the people at FP - they may be able to figure it out

 

[MikeJS]

I tried FP for my last camino and gave up trying to get it to work. How to use it seemed totally obscure.

 

[Luka]

Yup, I am close to giving it up as well. I have found it rather user unfriendly, also on my last Camino when I tried it out for the first time.

 

[OSUbuckeye85]

I am heading to Italy this week, starting my first Camino in April 2025. Is the consensus that Polarsteps is the way to go?

 

[CWBuff]

@OSUbuckeye85 - i don't think there is a "consensus" - some of us like Polarsteps and some - FindPenguins.
I do believe that FP allows you to share the tracking here.
See Luka's post #20 and mine #22

Good luck and Buen Camino

 

[CWBuff]

Here is a screenshot on joining the group

Camino de Santiago: FindPenguins Group Tracking

A group tracking for all travelers walking the Camino de Santiago, powered by Casa Ivar, the home of the Camino Forum & FindPenguins. See where other ...

findpenguins.com