Polly Track

Rally roadbook

Polly turns the route into a training roadbook: one box per junction, with km, tulip and heading in degrees. Edit it by hand or add to it while you ride with "MARK", follow it on screen with a trip meter you can correct, or print it.

FreeBuilt automaticallyEditablePDF and OpenRally

Where to find it

While navigating: ☰ menu › "Rally roadbook". On a phone it is full screen; on a tablet it opens in the "Roadbook" panel next to the map.

Rally roadbook on the phone: boxes with total and partial km, tulip with side roads, CAP in degrees, surface, village symbol and steep-climb danger.
The boxes on the phone, with symbols and dangers.
Rally roadbook while riding: total and partial, corrections −100, −10, +10, +100, Reset, GPS; boxes with CAP, road, surface and fuel symbol.
While riding: trip meter on top, boxes below.
On iPad (Italian interface): map on the left and roadbook on the right, with total and partial, corrections −100, −10, +10, +100, Reset and GPS.
On iPad, next to the map.

What a box contains

  • Box number, total km and partial km from the previous box.
  • Tulip: your exit plus the other roads leaving the junction, taken from the map. At roundabouts the exit is measured 60 m after.
  • CAP: the exit heading in degrees, 0 to 359.
  • Road name and surface after the turn.
  • Dangers: "!" for climbs of 12% to 18%, "!!" for 18% to 25%, "!!!" above 25%; restricted section.
  • Symbols: ford, barrier, village, fuel. A town is marked if it is within 700 m (300 m for a village), fuel within 200 m.

The box changes by itself 15 m after the junction.

Trip meter and remote

Training on a tablet: only the roadbook at full width, with the trip meter and large boxes.
"Hide map": roadbook only, like in a race.
Settings › Remote control: previous and next box, trip ±10 and ±100 m, reset partial and MARK, each with its assigned key (arrows, volume, page up and down, Play/Pause, Enter, Space).
Settings › Remote control.
  • Total and partial, like a trip master. Correct by −10, +10, −100, +100 m; "Reset" the partial; "GPS" removes the correction from the total.
  • On a tablet, "Hide map" leaves only the roadbook, to practise navigating without a map.
  • Remote control: a Bluetooth handlebar remote that acts like a keyboard. Ready out of the box: up and down arrows for boxes, left and right (and volume − and +) for ±10 m, Page Down and Up for ±100 m, Play/Pause and Enter to reset the partial.
  • In Settings › Navigation › "Remote control" pick an action and press the key you want to use.

Printable PDF

From "My tracks": the track's ⋮ menu › "Export roadbook PDF", then the format.

Page of the 150 mm roll PDF with boxes, vector tulips, CAP and symbols.
150 mm roll.
A4 roadbook page with boxes in three columns.
A4: 8 boxes per page.
  • Formats: A4 (8 boxes per page), A5 (5), 145 mm roll and 150 mm roll.
  • Each page has title, date, km, page number and data credits. Boxes are 30 mm tall in three columns, with vector tulips.
  • The roll comes in long pages of up to about 5 m (163 boxes), then continues in another file.

Symbols are Polly's own, with conventional meanings: they are not the official FIM set.

Editing the roadbook

From "My tracks": open a track and tap "Edit roadbook". Roadbooks you have edited are in "Saved roadbooks".

Roadbook editor for the route to Varese Ligure: boxes with total and partial km (0.24, 1.70, 2.10…), tulip, heading, surface and symbols; at the top undo, add box, regenerate and menu.
The list of boxes.
Box 1, Tulip tab: junction with the exit in orange, "Rotate 45°", "Add branch", exit choice and branches you can remove.
Change the tulip by hand.
Box 1, Notes and symbols tab: note "Ford after the bridge", Town and Fuel symbols, Ford danger.
Notes, symbols and dangers.
"Regeneration preview": "Manual edit retained" with a conflict on box 1, and the Cancel and Apply buttons.
Regenerate from the route without losing your fixes.
  • Pick a box and change the tulip (add or remove branches), the notes and symbols and the photos. You can add or remove boxes.
  • "Undo last edit" steps back once; every save is kept as a revision.
  • "Regenerate from route" rebuilds the boxes from the track and shows you a preview first: boxes you fixed by hand stay.
  • Works on phones and tablets.

Field survey with "MARK"

While recording a free ride or a navigation: the "MARK" button on screen, or the remote's MARK key (space bar by default).

Navigating with recording on: red "MARK" button and the mark-type button, timer 00:39 and 0.3 km recorded.
"MARK" while navigating and recording.
"What did you mark?": Danger 1, Danger 2, Danger 3, Ford, Gate, Town, Fuel, Note and Photo.
The mark type, if you want.
Rally roadbook while stopped: total and partial 1.53 km, −100, −10, +10, +100, Reset, GPS +20 and the "Align to this box" button.
Trip corrected by +20 m and "Align to this box".
Roadbook editor after the ride: "To complete: 3" at the top and boxes with km, tulip, heading and surface; marks with no type are labelled "To complete".
After the ride your marks become boxes.
  • One tap saves the point right away, with time, position and km. Then, if you want, choose what you marked: Danger 1, 2 or 3, Ford, Gate, Town, Fuel or Note.
  • Photos when stopped: the camera only opens below 5 km/h. Location data (EXIF) is removed from photos.
  • Correctable trip in free rides too: −100, −10, +10, +100 m. When stopped, "Align to this box" sets the trip to that box's km. Every correction is logged with time and position.
  • At the end of the ride Polly adds your marks to the boxes and opens the editor. Marks with no type, no position or poor GPS go to "To complete", to sort out later.
  • If the app closes or the phone switches off, marks already taken are not lost.

Export and import

Editor export menu: 145 mm roll, 150 mm roll, Export GPX, Export OpenRally, Share roadbook file.
From the editor: PDF, GPX, OpenRally or the full file.
  • PDF on a 145 or 150 mm roll, A4 or A5.
  • Plain GPX: the track and one waypoint per box.
  • OpenRally cross-country 1.0.3, export and import.
  • .pollyroadbook, Polly's complete file, with or without photos: it asks before exporting.
  • An OpenRally file, a .pollyroadbook or a GPX with waypoints opens in Polly from "Share" or "Open with" and becomes a roadbook; boxes with missing details go to "To complete". A GPX with no waypoints stays a track.

The numbers

0–359°
exit heading (CAP) of each box
±10 / ±100 m
trip meter corrections
12% · 18% · 25%
thresholds for the ! !! !!! dangers
4
print formats: A4, A5, 145 and 150 mm roll
5
photos per box at most
5 km/h
below this speed the camera and "Align to this box" are available

What it does not do

  • There are no voice notes during the survey yet.
  • Compatibility with Rally Navigator and Tulip files has not been tested with real files yet: Polly follows the OpenRally 1.0.3 format.
  • Remote keys only work with the roadbook open.
  • The PDF is exported from "My tracks", not from navigation.

How does it compare with Calimoto, Kurviger, OsmAnd, DMD2 and other apps? See the feature-by-feature comparison.