CREATE your own Tree Trails & Map Guides for your green space FREE OF CHARGE with TiCL and GoParksLondon

Why You Should - CREATE A GUIDE/TRAIL

TiCL App gives you the means to create a guide or trail in an area that other people can navigate without having to put anything physically on the ground.

TiCL App allows local area managers e.g. friends groups to 'geo-locate' and link physical features of the environment e.g. trees, sculpture, memorials to tell stories and create trails for visitors to explore.

TiCL App creates a trail that remains editable by you whenever you want, either from your desktop computer or via a smartphone.

TiCL App lets you photograph points of interest and add short descriptions about them.

You can add links to the 'best' web information about each item. Those links might be to your own website, social media or YouTube, so that as people navigate the green space physically, they connect with your group virtually.

Every TiCL trail has its own unique URL so you can show your trail to everyone easily on the web. For example this is the tree trail created by the Friends of Bishop’s Park.

Users NAVIGATE A TRAIL with the ‘TiCL View’ App for FREE, and without registration, for iOS and Android

TiCL View App returns information to all users as lists with their 'nearest' item on the list highlighted on the map and described beneath the map. This makes it easy for users to see things nearby and find them. It also makes navigating a trail easy - you just keep going to the nearest point of interest without repeating any previously visited locations.

The Direct Me feature shows a live compass arrow and distance to each point of interest with a picture of it, so the user knows exactly what they are looking for – it’s a fun and easy way to find things accurately in a green space.

How to Create a Trail with TiCL App iOS

Creating a TiCL App Trail/Map/Guide is quick and easy if you follow these simple steps

Register your Friends organisation with TiCL via the TiCL App iOS

Tips Use a password that you will be happy to share with your organisation. Don’t forget your password. If you don’t receive your ‘Activation Code’ within a few moments, please check your spam folder. Allow push notifications and enable location services.

To add locations to your trail: 

• Go to the centre (roughly) of your green space with your smartphone and TiCL App
• Open TiCL App
• Press + in the top right-hand corner
• In Title write ‘Your Green Space Name’ Tree Trail
• In More write a description of what the trail is going to be about eg ‘Tree Trail of notable/memorial trees’
• Press submit (while you are in the green space)

YOU HAVE STARTED THE GUIDE!

NOW MAKE IT FREE AND LAST INDEFINITELY

1. Go back into the Headline you have just submitted
2. Press ‘Edit’ in the top right hand corner
3. Press Premium Editing
4. In the Promotion Code Box enter GoParksLondonTrails

YOU ARE NOW READY TO ADD POINTS OF INTEREST TO THE TRAIL / GUIDE

Adding points of interest to the guide or trail you have created is easy

You will need TiCL App iOS

1. Go to the point of interest with TiCL App
2. Find and open the Headline about the trail. Keep the App open and running so that it calculates the most accurate GPS position
3. Press refresh (curly arrow top left) a couple of times (this also helps the App calculate your position accurately)
4. Press ‘Add Article To The List Below’
5. In Text add a description of the point of interest
6. Take Photo of the Point of interest
7. Press Submit at the location of the point of interest

Tip if you have had to move away from the point of interest to take the photo move back to it before you press submit)

1. Check where you have geo-located the point of interest by looking at it using the ‘Map’ feature

Tip: If the Article has not gone onto the map at the right place then delete the Article and force close the App. Reopen the App and try adding the Article again.

REPEAT THIS PROCESS UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED THE TRAIL / GUIDE

THAT’S IT!

IF YOU ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE CREATED AND WANT TO:

CREATE MORE GUIDES OR TRAILS FOR YOUR GREEN SPACE

EDIT YOUR CONTENT MORE EASILY VIA A PC

DISCUSS OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH THE SYSTEM

contact the TiCL Response Team on: contact@ticl.me