Blog - Tips, Stories & Updates
Welcome to the PitStopper.net blog! Here you'll find tips for planning better routes, stories from the community, feature announcements, and guides to help you get the most out of your adventures. Whether you're bikepacking across continents or planning a local day hike, we've got something for you.
A year ago PitStopper was a web page that read a GPX file and asked OpenStreetMap what was along it. Since then you have imported two million kilometres of tracks.
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There are plenty of apps that tell you where to turn. PitStopper On-the-go tells you where to stop. The alpha is open, and before it goes much further I'd like to know what you think it should be.
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Searching for POIs along a long route used to mean firing off dozens of Overpass queries - and on routes like London to Edinburgh, a search that might never finish. As of today, searches run on a new PostGIS-backed engine that answers the whole route in a single indexed query. Here's what changed, the numbers, and how we got there.
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The King Charles III England Coast Path is officially open - 2,700 miles around the entire English coastline. Combined with Wales and Scotland, you can now walk 4,500+ miles of British coast. Here's how PitStopper helps you plan.
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If you ride multi-loop endurance events, the new Multi-Loop Planner helps you build a race plan with timing, breaks, scoring, and sunrise/sunset info - then load each route into PitStopper to find fuel and water stops.
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A busy February! Here's a roundup of the big features like FIT file support and historical weather, plus the smaller quality-of-life improvements that make PitStopper better every day.
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PitStopper now supports Garmin FIT files alongside GPX. Import FIT courses from Ride with GPS, Garmin Connect and more. Discover POIs along your route and export enhanced FIT files back to your device.
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As January draws to a close, here's a quick roundup of the demo routes, address lookup, Query POI improvements, and other small additions we've made to PitStopper this month.
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We're testing two new features that help you understand your route better - Hazards & Obstacles detection and Surface Info analysis. Try them out and let us know what you think.
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We're excited to announce a major infrastructure improvement: PitStopper now runs its own Overpass server, resulting in faster and more reliable POI searches for all users.
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PitStopper looks and works exactly the same, but under the hood we've completely reorganised our code. Here's why that matters for you.
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Happy New Year! We're kicking off 2026 with a much-requested feature - mark your starred POIs and filter to see only the stops that matter to you.
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GPXFIT is a powerful companion tool to PitStopper that helps you edit, validate, and analyze your recorded GPS activities. Clean up your files, check elevation data, and export in multiple formats.
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