What is Trip Map Replay in Hawk Dashcam?
Trip map replay is a feature in Hawk that visualises your driving route as a MapKit polyline overlay on your dashcam clips, giving you GPS-tagged evidence of exactly where you were and the speed you were travelling.
How Trip Map Replay Works
When you record a drive in Hawk, the app logs your GPS coordinates throughout the journey. Trip map replay takes those coordinates and draws your route as a coloured line on a map, synced to your video evidence. You can see the exact path you took, the timestamp of each segment, and your speed at any point along the route. This is particularly useful if you need to dispute a claim or provide evidence to police or your insurer, because the map and video together tell a complete story of what happened and where.
Why Route Maps Matter in Disputes
Insurance companies, police, and courts rely on objective evidence. A video alone can be challenged if location is in dispute. By combining your dashcam footage with a GPS-verified trip map, you're providing two independent data sources that corroborate each other. Hawk records GPS speed and timestamp overlays directly onto clips (when you enable this in your GDPR profile settings), and the trip map replay reinforces that data with a visual route. This combination is much harder to argue against than video alone, which is why Hawk was designed around evidence-grade integrity from the start, using SHA-256 hashing to prove no frame has been altered.
Trip Map Replay and Your Evidence Locker
Hawk's Evidence Locker stores your clips in a biometric-locked vault. When you export a dispute package, Hawk bundles your video, the GPS metadata, trip map data, and a SHA-256 manifest into a single ZIP file. This one-tap export is ready to send to insurance, police, or small-claims court. The trip map replay becomes part of that export, so whoever reviews your case can see both your route and your video without needing separate tools or expertise to interpret raw GPS logs.
Privacy and GPS Settings
Hawk only overlays GPS speed and timestamp on your clips if you explicitly enable it in your GDPR profile settings. You control whether your location data appears in exported evidence. Trip map replay itself uses MapKit to render the polyline, and your GPS log is stored locally on your device unless you upgrade to Local Pro and sync locked clips to your own iCloud. Hawk does not upload your full journey data to MRVL servers unless you choose to sync. Your driving history remains yours.
Who Uses Trip Map Replay
Rideshare drivers benefit most, because trip map replay provides a transparent record of every passenger journey. It also protects daily commuters involved in disputes, new drivers building a track record of safe driving, and anyone who wants to challenge false accident claims. If you're in an accident and a third party blames you, trip map replay shows your exact route, your speed, and when it happened. That's the kind of evidence that changes the outcome of a claim.
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Frequently asked questions
Is trip map replay enabled by default in Hawk?
Trip map replay is a core feature available to all users, but the GPS speed overlay on your video clips requires you to enable it in your GDPR profile settings first. You have full control over what location data appears in your exported evidence.
Can I export my trip map replay as a standalone file?
Trip map replay is included in Hawk's one-tap dispute export as part of the full evidence package (ZIP with video, metadata, and SHA-256 manifest). You cannot export the map alone, but the complete export gives insurers and courts everything they need to review your route and footage together.
Does Hawk store my GPS data on MRVL servers?
No. Hawk stores your GPS logs and trip maps locally on your device. Local Pro syncs only locked, encrypted clips to your own iCloud account. Your full journey history never leaves your phone unless you choose to back it up.
Will trip map replay work offline?
GPS recording works offline. Trip map replay rendering requires MapKit, so you need internet to view the map. Your GPS data is still saved locally and will render the map once you're back online.
Can I use trip map replay evidence in court?
Yes. The combination of GPS-verified trip map, video footage, and SHA-256 integrity hashing makes Hawk evidence suitable for insurance claims, police reports, and small-claims court. The NDSP police-report submission feature (iOS) also lets you send evidence directly to law enforcement.