Announcing TORM 2026: TRAC On Road Mapper Season 2

Prepare yourselves: the TORM is coming.

Get ready, Road Mappers! As part of TRAC, October is officially the TORM campaign month.

Those with access to the Google Road Mapper program will spend October working as hard as possible to complete as many challenges and add as many kilometers to the map as possible to help the countries that need mapping the most. And thanks to our TRAC Captain, @SholaIB, getting a brand new batch of LGs access to Road Mapper, we will have an even BIGGER team than Season 1. Read up on the FAQs and be ready to contribute!

If you have access to Google’s Roadmapper program, join us and map along, tracking your progress with the team throughout October.

A Whole New Way Of Tracking!

Our friend @MarcoDavoli has designed a fantastic tracking program on his website, roaders.club, for everyone to use as they complete their Road Mapper challenges. It is very easy to track (much different than last year when I was doing it manually:face_exhaling:), and now we get beautiful charts, a scoreboard, and even a leaderboard. Of course, TORM is not a competition, but rather a way for us to make big contributions as a team to Google Maps.
Please read ROADERS.CLUB is evolving! and ready to TORM26 for details!

The kickoff meetup will be October 3rd.

But Torm officially starts October 1st and runs through October 31st. This will only be open to those with access to Google’s Road Mapper program, which is invite-only.

If you don’t have access to Road Mapper, don’t worry. We will have another TRAC season for you to participate in before you know it. You can also Fill this form out to request consideration for Road Mapper access. But stick around and cheer on your TORM family!

TORM Campaign Details
Campaign Dates October 1st - October 31st
Program Google Road Mapper (invite-only)
Tracking Website https://www.roaders.club/

If you have questions, please leave them in the comments below. Be sure to tag your Road Mapper cohorts below, and let’s get TORM underway!

The cover image of this post was created using Gemini AI and @MarcoDavoli’s TRAC Logo. All text and captions come straight from the brain of @JustJake, so expect imperfections, silliness, and human errors. See anything blatantly wrong? Please let me know! TRAC & TORM are unofficial events not affiliated with Google in any way. TRAC & TORM were dreamed up by moderator @SholaIB. I take no credit for this event; I’m simply the co-host. :grin:

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Our 2026 Newbie list:

@benmac, @nasimJ, @pankaj_sarker, @Rozzub, @SUNIQBALTube, @SonamW , @glosings0n, @anhcauduong67, @Ehsan_Noa, @rtsayles, @JulhazUddin, @Silvi, @Ptrivedi, @BaludraKrishna, @Ramamoorthy123, @alifaisaly, @Jeffman1, @VikramSingh_Valera, @Daverlix, @dmadrid689, @doni_hariadi, @XPinG, @Ratte

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Fair enough Dear :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: You may take no credit, but as co-host, you’re definitely not escaping the spotlight. Let’s see who actually steals the show :wink::trophy:

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes::grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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You know I can’t help myself sometimes :man_shrugging:

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Haha, @JustJake I had a feeling you wouldn’t be able to resist! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Just joking, dear Jake - you’ll be there. Newbies couldn’t ask for a better Road Mapping guide. You make learning fun and effortless. Truly a Great :gem_stone:

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That’s fantastic news @JustJake Looking forward to TORM 2026 season

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@JustJake Let’s goooo! Looking forward to this.

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Waaah keren sekali dan luar biasa @JustJake , semangat ya. Sukses untuk semua :folded_hands:t2::raised_fist:t2::folded_hands:t2::raised_fist:t2::folded_hands:t2::raised_fist:t2:

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Thank you so much, @TitikMariati! It’s an exciting event, for sure.

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Wow, the announcement :loudspeaker: :megaphone: is finally here! Thanks for sharing, @JustJake.

Hopefully, all the backlogged Road Mapping’s pending reviews will be resolved by October 1, 2026. That will really give us some fresh momentum moving forward.

Let’s keep drawing unmapped roads on Google Maps for smooth and accurate navigation!

By the way, @JustJake, this post disclosure was excellent, especially the way you described it!

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Baik. Terima kasih kembali @JustJake

Iya saya seneng melihatnya. :folded_hands:t2:

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Thank you for the announcement post @JustJake

Quite interesting and exciting. We’re getting ready for the event. Thanks @MarcoDavoli for the efforts to get the site running.

See you all down the road soon.

Happy guiding

Cheers

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Great news @JustJake! Looking forward to TORM 2026 and another exciting month of Road Mapping.

Big thanks to @MarcoDavoli for creating the tracking website, which makes the event more interesting and motivates the team.

Thank you to Captain @SholaIB for providing access to interested Local Guides and for all your efforts behind the scenes.

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Looking forward to it

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We can hope, but there are quite a lot to sort through in the next week. With the tracking tools on @MarcoDavoli’s roaders.club, we’ll still be able to check our progress.

Thank you! Since we should disclose AI utilization, I think we should also disclose some old fashioned brain utilization, too. :grin:

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You’re very welcome, Captain! I’m looking forward to a bigger and better TORM from last year’s amazing season.

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Very good call-out, @PrasadVR. These two men are helping making this event a huge success!

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the long awaited announcement has finally arrived!!

Thank you to our Co-host @JustJake and thanks to the Captain @SholaIB that was able to support the request for a brand new batch of future ROADMAPPER but also (I hope because among them some did never add a road..) future ROADERS.

Thanks

Take care
Marco

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Count me in! Looking forward to an amazing time together! @JustJake

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