FAQ — GeoCalendar

1) What is GeoCalendar and who is it for?

GeoCalendar is a travel-day intelligence app for people who move across countries and need reliable day counting. It is ideal for digital nomads, remote workers, expats, frequent travelers, founders, and consultants who care about Schengen limits, tax-day exposure, insurance expiries, and organized trip planning.

2) What does GeoCalendar track automatically?

GeoCalendar tracks location events (with your permission), groups them by day, and determines the dominant country for each day. From that, it builds your calendar, travel timeline, country-day counts, statistics, map history, and alert signals.

3) How does the app decide which country “owns” a day?

Each day is summarized based on time spent by country. The country where you spend the majority of tracked time becomes the day’s dominant country. You can still review details and make manual corrections if needed.

4) Is GeoCalendar a tax advisor or legal advisor?

No. GeoCalendar is a tracking and planning tool, not legal or tax advice. It helps you stay organized and aware, but final tax and immigration decisions should always be validated with qualified professionals.

5) How does Schengen 90/180 work in GeoCalendar?

GeoCalendar calculates your rolling 180-day window and shows:

  • days used,

  • days remaining,

  • current status,

  • and upcoming release dates.
    It also provides a country contribution view so you can understand where Schengen days are accumulating.

6) Can I set my fiscal residence and track risk by country?

Yes. You can set your fiscal residence and monitor non-residence countries year by year. The app displays status levels (safe, warning, critical, danger) and highlights countries approaching thresholds.

7) What alerts can GeoCalendar send?

GeoCalendar supports:

  • fiscal risk alerts,

  • Schengen-related risk visibility,

  • insurance expiry alerts,

  • document expiry alerts.
    You can manage notification permissions from within the app settings.

8) Can I simulate future trips before booking?

Yes. The Trip Simulator lets you create multi-segment itineraries (country + dates) and preview the projected impact on:

  • fiscal day totals,

  • Schengen usage,

  • and threshold warnings.

9) What is the Travel Map used for?

Travel Map visualizes your recorded movements and lets you filter by date range. You can save a default date range to reuse across sessions, useful for recurring analyses (year-to-date, last 90 days, etc.).

10) Can I correct wrong data?

Yes. You can manually adjust day-level data, including dominant country and city, and add notes. This is useful when background tracking is limited or when you want a cleaner historical record.

11) Can I import historical travel data from Google Maps?

Yes. GeoCalendar supports historical import from Google Maps Takeout (JSON) and GPX files. You can preview import impact before applying and choose merge/overwrite behavior where available.

12) Does GeoCalendar support backup and restore?

Yes. You can export a JSON backup and restore it later on the same or another device. This is useful for migration, safety, and long-term record continuity.

13) Can I export data for reporting or sharing?

Yes. You can export:

  • CSV (structured data),

  • PDF diary (readable report), with selectable date ranges and quick presets.

14) What statistics are available?

GeoCalendar provides:

  • yearly country-day stats,

  • comparison across years,

  • lifetime metrics (countries, continents, streak, longest trip, first record, etc.),

  • trip timeline grouped by year/country.

15) What are the insurance and document modules for?

They help you keep operational travel admin under control:

  • insurance policy tracking (coverage periods, expiries),

  • travel document tracking (expiry dates),

  • consolidated “Expiry calendar” to see urgent upcoming renewals.

16) What is the pre-departure checklist?

It’s a customizable checklist to organize travel preparation by category (documents, health, and more). You can add/remove items, mark progress, and reset when needed.

17) Can I change language and visual style?

Yes. GeoCalendar includes multi-language support and customizable appearance options (including visual style and transparency controls where available).

18) Does the app work on iPhone and iPad?

Yes. GeoCalendar supports iPhone and iPad layouts, with navigation behavior optimized for full-screen usability.

19) How private is my data?

GeoCalendar is designed with a privacy-first approach: your travel records are managed under your control, and core functionality focuses on personal tracking/analysis rather than social sharing.

20) What permissions are required?

Primarily:

  • Location (for automatic travel-day tracking),

  • Notifications (optional, for proactive alerts).
    You can still use parts of the app manually if permissions are reduced.

21) Can I use GeoCalendar without internet?

Most core tracking, browsing, and analysis flows work locally. Some features (e.g., certain data refresh/import/export contexts) may benefit from connectivity, but day history and core logic are built for everyday reliability.

22) Is GeoCalendar useful if I don’t travel every week?

Yes. Even occasional travelers benefit from year-long day accumulation visibility, clean records, expiry tracking, and early warning before limits become issues.

23) What is the main value of GeoCalendar in one sentence?

GeoCalendar turns fragmented travel history into a single, actionable control center for compliance, planning, and peace of mind.