Turn-by-turn instructions are optional when editing a track

Editing track and Re-plan a section have a switch for giving the edited section turn instructions, on by default, for tracks that keep their own navigation data.

Editing track in the sidebar

The Editing track controls are now a panel in the left pane instead of a bar over the map, with the running length and climb change as tiles. Re-plan a section and What is this road? use a sheet above the map on a phone, so the map stays in view.

Tooltips on the right-click menu

Hover an item on the map's right-click menu to see what it does.

What is this road? in the sidebar, with the road highlighted

The answer now opens in a side panel instead of a dialog, and the road it describes is drawn on the map as OpenStreetMap does, following whichever one you open.

Re-plan a section: alternatives and Before / After

The panel now opens at the first click and guides you to the second, offers BRouter's alternative routes for the section, and flips between Before and After with the distance, climb and descent compared.

Re-plan a section of a track

Right-click a track, choose Re-plan a section from here and click where it ends: a panel in the left pane re-routes just that stretch with the profile you pick, through points you click on the map, and Save drops your planning points. Everything else stays as it was, and Undo puts the old section back.

Famous climbs in the right country

A quarter of the famous climbs were filed under the wrong country (Col d'Aspin as Dutch, the Blockhaus as Belgian); each now takes its country from where it is. Wrynose Pass is on the road, so the Fred Whitton shows it on the route.

Room for long category names

With a mouse, the buttons on a POI list heading appear when you point at it, so a long name has the whole row the rest of the time. Touch screens keep them showing.

Via point changes are auto-saved

Adding, naming, describing or changing a via or shaping point now counts as a change for auto-save, so a session spent on vias alone is no longer lost.

Pace Maker in miles

Pace Maker's rides, notes and speed-by-gradient table now follow your units, and an unused figure's "not used" is no longer cut off on a phone.

Help for six more tools

The Bulk POI Editor, Deleted POIs, POI Statistics, Famous Climbs Nearby, the Climb Database and Signed Cycle Routes each have a help section with screenshots, and a help button. Famous climbs beside your route are now found however long the route is.

First-route video: star the stops you will use

The beginners' video now shows starring or flagging the stops you mean to use, and exporting only those, so your device is not crowded with every tap on the way.

Help contents follow your reading

On the help pages, the contents list on the left now scrolls along with the page, so the section you are reading stays highlighted and in view.

Help from the window you are in

Most windows and sidebar panels now have a button beside Close that opens their help in a new tab.

Custom icons: a pin, or another shape

A custom icon can sit on a pin like our own markers, pointing at the spot, or on a circle, square or octagon, in any colour. The colours and shape are built into the icon's PNG, so .gpz and .kmz exports show it exactly as you made it.

The POI Graph against time

The POI Graph's "Against time" toggle plots your stops by when you reach them instead of how far along they are, so a gap reads as hours without a stop.

The elevation profile against time

The clock button on the elevation chart draws the profile by time instead of distance: long climbs take up their hours, stops are flat steps, and with a start time the night is shaded.

Pace Maker, easier to use

Learning from your own rides is now the first thing in Pace Maker, with a drop zone for GPX and FIT files. The window is bigger, the figures line up, and what your rides show has stat tiles and a bar comparing your profile with the standard estimate.

Times follow your pace profile

Making, choosing or editing a Pace Maker profile now re-times your routes straight away; before, a route kept its old times until you applied the estimate again. With a profile in use, the time estimate hides the speed, activity and stops it sets, and says what it uses.

Pace Maker from the starting-time dialog

Until you have a pace profile, "Starting time & average pace" says what Pace Maker does and opens it, now on top of the dialog rather than behind it.

A stop becomes a via point, and vias get a description

"Make a via" in a stop's popup puts a named via point on the track beside it, handy for an event's controls. A via can now carry a description, exported as its <desc> as Cruiser writes it.

Turn instructions that come as waypoints

When a planner's file has its turns as nameless waypoints, the Import Summary asks whether to remove them or keep them as stops.

GPXFIT moves to PitStopper

GPXFIT, the toolkit for editing and analysing GPX and FIT files, now lives at pitstopper.net/gpxfit/ with PitStopper's menus and colours; find it under More → Tools.

Pace Maker, more accurate

Estimates read gradients over 200 m stretches, so bumpy elevation no longer slows them; Pace Maker learns how short rises differ from long climbs, leaves out odd stretches, and checks each of your rides against the others.

A selected stretch stays zoomed

With the elevation chart following the map, selecting a stretch zoomed the chart away again, on a loop to the wrong end; the selected stretch now stays on screen.

Times in the export when you planned them

The export's "Include estimated times" is now ticked whenever the route has a start time, with a note on when to untick it (Strava, Ride with GPS, Komoot); an untick is remembered.

Pace Maker learns more

Open a recorded ride and its summary offers to teach Pace Maker from it; a long ride also teaches how much you tire each hour, and estimates now show a likely range.

Pace Maker

Create your pace profile from a previous ride: up to three GPX or FIT rides teach PitStopper your flat speed, how hills slow you and how long you stop, and every time estimate uses them (Settings → Pace Maker).

Time for stops, your way

The 10% rest-stop checkbox is now a choice of none, short breaks (10%), café stops (20%) or touring and sightseeing (30%), and it applies on flat routes too.

A category's icon reaches every stop

Stops given an icon of their own kept it whenever you changed their category's icon; choosing the whole category now offers to replace those too, with a count, whether from a stop or from Category settings.

Imported stops get a type of your own

Waypoints from another app that match none of our categories, such as checkpoints, now arrive as a type named from the file, which you can rename and give its own colour and icon; any imported stop can join a type from its popup.

Choose which pass of a place to export

On an out and back, a POI's popup lists each pass as a button: turn one off and that pass leaves your GPX, FIT, KML and CSV files and the printed report, so a café you only want on the way home is on the device once.

Pick the right pass of a shared road

Right-click a road your route rides more than once and the menu lists each pass by its distance, so a via point goes on the leg you mean.

Via points from the elevation profile

Right-click the profile to pick a trackpoint, step along one point at a time with the arrow keys while the map follows, and make it a via or shaping point.

Garmin preview in the export dialog

The export dialog draws a Garmin Edge showing its Course Points screen for your GPX or FIT: the POIs the file will hold, named and in order along the route, updating as you change the options.

Two-way arrows on out-and-back roads

Where a route rides the same road out and back, its direction arrows show both ways instead of only the return. Arrows now start near the start of a route, not 10% of the way in, so a long ride's way out of town has them too.

Live GPX view

System → Live GPX view shows the GPX your project would export, highlighted, and updates it as you edit, marking the lines that changed.

Back to start and Out and back

Two planner buttons add the way home to the route you drew: back to the start by the router's choice, or back through your stops in reverse.

Surface bar while planning

The planner shows how much of the route is paved, gravel or path, and updates as you drag.

Add a POI to your planned route

While planning, a POI's popup has Add to route: it becomes a named stop between the two stops nearest it.

Drag the planned route line

In the route planner, drag the line itself to add a via where you drop it and re-route through it (on a phone, hold the line first). Track Edit is now for finished routes only.

Drag a via point to re-route its sections

With Track Edit on, dragging a via or shaping point re-routes only the two sections either side of it; the rest of the track stays as it was.

Via and shaping points on any track

Right-click a route to make the nearest trackpoint a named via point or a shaping point, without recalculating anything. Navigation data lists them for any track, and you can name its start and finish too.

New video: your first route

A three-and-a-half-minute walkthrough from an empty start page to a FIT file for your Garmin, now on the home page. Video pages also have chapters you can jump to.

Look a stop up on Google

A named stop's popup has a Google button that searches for it on Google Maps, so you can check its current opening hours and reviews.

Climb gradients on or off

A % tab on the elevation chart shows or hides the gradient labels over each climb, and remembers your choice. The chart now slides open and closed.

Icon backgrounds in .gpz SVGs

A coloured icon's background circle is now drawn into its SVG in a .gpz, as it already was in the PNG, so it survives a round trip.

Move a stop, and add one by coordinates

Move in a stop's popup lets you pan to its new spot and confirm it there; it is re-measured against the route and can be undone. POI > Add POI places a stop by decimal, DMS or Plus Code coordinates.

Your own stop types

Add POI has a Custom type you name yourself, such as Checkpoint. The new palette on each List & Manage section sets its colour, icon and size, and renames a custom type.

Icon sizes

Stops can be drawn bigger or smaller, our own pins included: click a stop's icon and use Size, for that stop or its whole category. A .gpx, .gpz or .kmz that gives a size (<scale>, or KML's icon scale) is drawn at it, and the GPX Inspector shows a file's icons at their anchor and size.

Select a stretch of the elevation profile, and see its climbs

Drag across the profile to zoom the chart and map to that stretch and see its distance, ascent, steepest gradient and time; the profile's climbs are now labelled, and clicking one selects it.

Steepness colours from the elevation chart

A palette button on the elevation chart colours the profile by steepness, and the setting is now remembered between visits.

GPX Inspector previews waypoint-only files

A file with waypoints but no track or route now shows its waypoints in the preview, instead of saying there is nothing to draw.

Route corridors in GPX, and back from KML

A route's corridor now travels in GPX and .gpz files (as physicalWidth on the track, documented in the GPX file reference), and a KML's corridor comes back as the route's corridor instead of an extra route.

GPX Inspector reads more from FIT and KML

The inspector now shows a FIT's turns, favourites and activity, and a KML's icons, PitStopper data, timed tracks and flyover, previews a .kmz's icons, and offers the new .kmz, flyover and activity export options.

FIT: turn prompts, favourites and bike type

FIT exports now carry the route's turns, so Garmin, Wahoo and Hammerhead devices prompt them; a FIT course's own turns import as turns rather than as stops; starred POIs become device favourites; and the activity list adds road, gravel, mountain bike, running and trail running.

Google Earth flyover

A KML export can add a flyover tour of each route: in Google Earth, double-click it in Places and the camera flies the route.

KML with icons (.kmz)

A KML export can now be a .kmz carrying each POI's own icon, anchored where it should be, and a .kmz you open brings its icons in, as a .gpz does.

Changelog RSS feed

This changelog now has an RSS feed, so new features and fixes can arrive in your feed reader, and its contents are grouped by year.

GPX Inspector flags animated icons

The inspector marks animated PNG, SVG and GIF icons in a .gpz, plays them, and says what PitStopper does with each; GIF icons in a .gpz are now imported too, as still pictures.

KML stops keep their details

KML exports now carry each stop's category, star, flag, note, OpenStreetMap id, opening hours, phone and website as data (a table in Google Earth), and PitStopper reads them back exactly.

Fix: timed KML tracks keep their times

A KML ride recorded with times (Google Earth's gx:Track) now keeps them on import, as a GPX does.

Animated icons from a .gpz move on the map

Animated PNG and SVG icons in a .gpz now play on the map, as they do in the import preview, instead of showing their first frame.

Fix: elevation chart lights the right stop

Running the cursor along the elevation profile no longer makes a stop far along the route pulse; a stop lights up when the cursor reaches it, still does after the POIs change, and pointing at a stop on the map enlarges its own dot on the chart.

Fix: a stop's own icon no longer disappears

An icon set on one stop could vanish a few seconds later, when the POI list refreshed after loading or a settings change.

Icons from a .gpz sit centred

A .gpz that doesn't say where its icons are anchored now imports them centred on the spot, as Garmin and Cruiser icons are drawn, instead of bottom centre.

Version history

Your work is kept as you go, and Version history lists earlier versions to restore: ones you name, every Save, automatic ones while you work, and a safety copy before anything replaces your work. It replaces Snapshots, Revert and Pause auto-save; Ctrl/⌘S now saves.

Route corridor

Route Settings can draw a see-through band in the route's colour so many metres either side of it, to see what is near the route; KML exports carry it for Google Earth Pro and Locus Map.

Line width slider in Route Settings

Set a route's line width anywhere from 1 to 24 px, with a preview that shows its colour, width, transparency and dash before you save.

Works with site data blocked

With cookies or site data blocked in the browser, the GPX inspector ignored the file you chose and the app and Track Comparer stopped loading. They now work as normal and just don't remember your settings.

"None" quick preset

None turns every category off and keeps only the stops in your route file, for working on a finished route. Turning a category off no longer removes your own stops in it, and Deselect All now clears the searched POIs straight away.

A simpler export dialog

Pick GPX, GPX with icons and photos (.gpz), FIT or KML from four equal cards; everything else is under Advanced, with a preview of how POI names will look on your device and an explanation behind each option.

Simpler .gpz choice in the GPX converter

Converting a .gpz now offers one tick, keep the file's icons and attachments, instead of PitStopper's icon menu, and stops keep the symbols they came with.

Clearer transparency choice in Route Settings

The fully transparent button is now an empty outline, so it no longer looks like a second dashed-line option.

POI clustering now groups by type

Nearby POIs of the same kind share one pin with a count, and different kinds at the same spot sit side by side instead of merging into one number.

Fixed: quick presets around a place, and the radius arrows

A quick preset now fetches its POIs straight away when exploring around a place. The radius arrows move one step at any radius; above about 150 m they did nothing.

Fixed: a .gpz we wrote lost its icons when converted again

Symbols carried from another app now keep their pictures through every round trip in the GPX Inspector.

OsmAnd icons for stops from other apps

A stop with a Garmin symbol such as Church or Museum now gets the matching OsmAnd icon on export.

Fixed: _navtrk only for turn-by-turn tracks

An exported track without turn instructions is now named _trk; _navtrk is kept for tracks that have them.

GPX Inspector: a faithful converter

A .gpz converted to .gpz keeps its own icons, photos and names. A new In and out table sets each part of the file beside what an export writes.

Explore around an exact point

Drag the place marker to fine-tune it, or right-click the map and choose Explore around here.

One changelog for the website and the phone app

The phone app's changes are now on this page too. Website changes show by default; tick Phone app to see the app's.

Dashed route lines

Route settings has a separate Dashed option, so any thickness can be dashed. It shows on PitStopper's map only; exported files stay solid, as other apps don't read a dash style.

On-the-go: riding screen

Once you're moving, the next stop fills the screen in large type.

On-the-go: skip a stop, easier start

Skip a stop you won't use; a first-launch question and shorter Settings.

On-the-go: starred-only routes announced nothing

Fixed: with only starred or flagged stops shown, nothing was announced.

On-the-go: right day, ready check, lock-screen buttons

Switches to the day you're riding, checks nothing will block your alerts, and lets you skip or replay alerts from the lock screen.

Track photos and attached files from a .gpz

Photos linked from a track and other linked files (PDF, documents, sound) are kept, shown in Route settings or the stop's popup, and exported back at their paths.

A stop from another app keeps its own symbol

Exporting a file you imported writes each untouched stop's original symbol back, in a .gpx too. A .gpz picked with other files now gets its icons as well.

Export POIs only as a .gpz

Tick Compress it (.gpz) to send the stops' photos and icons along with them. With no route loaded, Export a file now opens it instead of pointing you there.

GPX inspector previews a .gpz's pictures

Icons, linked photos and other image files in a GPZ show as thumbnails, with photos opening full size.

Photos, elevation and time on imported stops

A stop imported from a GPX or GPZ keeps its own elevation and time, and a GPZ's linked photos show in the popup and export back.

Imported waypoints keep their links and text

A waypoint imported from another app keeps its links, description and comment, and exports them unchanged.

Change a stop's icon from its popup

Click the icon in a stop's popup to change it for just that stop or for every stop of its category. The popup now shows the same icon as the map, and Category settings shows the icon a category draws now.

Your own POI icons

Give one stop or a whole category your own SVG or PNG icon, with an optional background circle and an anchor, drawn on the map without our pin. Emoji icons now stay put after a redraw and are saved with the project. Your own icons now travel inside a .gpz (PNG and SVG, with the anchor you chose). A .gpz from another app now brings in the icons its stops use: choose them or ours, and change your mind later in Route Settings. A searchable picker offers the whole Pinhead set, 2,318 icons, in any colour, found by category name or synonym, in your language or English, even misspelt; the whole set is also a download on the icons page. Printed reports show your icons too.

Video pages

Each PitStopper video now has its own page with the full transcript, including the new GPX explainer.

Route transparency

Route Settings and the route manager can make a route 25, 50 or 75% transparent, or fully transparent (hidden in other apps, drawn dashed here), and exports carry it.

Imported tracks keep their colour

A track loaded from Locus Map, Cruiser, Garmin or KML keeps its own colour, width and transparency, and exports write that look back in every format; route colour pickers now offer any custom colour.

Valid Garmin files with starred stops

Starred and flagged stop colours are now written in the form OsmAnd, Organic Maps and Cruiser read, instead of a Garmin element its schema does not allow on waypoints.

Imported track colours

A GPX or KML track keeps the colour, width and transparency its file gave it, and exports them back for Garmin, Locus and Cruiser. Every colour picker also offers a custom colour.

Line width in the route manager

The route manager now sets line width as well as colour, for one route or every ticked one, and the width samples are drawn in the route's own colour.

Steepness on the map

Surface Info can now colour the route by steepness, in the same bands as the elevation profile, straight from the route's own elevation - no analysis needed.

Surface Info: one set of controls

The tick list above Analyze Route is gone - it never changed what was fetched - and each display button now shows how many road segments have that data.

Route manager

Route > Manage routes opens every route in one table: rename, recolour, group, reorder by drag or keyboard, and show, hide, search, export or delete ticked routes together.

Route groups

Routes can be gathered into named, coloured groups that fold away, hide and join the POI search together; Route > Group by week does a long trip in one go, and Colour routes by group shades each group's routes.

Find a route among many

Routes are numbered on the map and in the list, hovering one highlights it in both, and a new button shows only that route until you press it again. Long lists get a filter box and one-line rows, and Route > Colour by trip order shades the routes from first to last.

Up to 32 routes

A project can now hold 32 routes (was 20), enough for a month of daily stages, and there are 16 route colours to tell them apart (was 8).

POIs follow your settings - no Search button

Widening the search radius, giving a category its own distance or choosing a new location now fetches whatever is missing by itself, so the Search button is gone.

PitStopper On-the-go in eight languages

The phone app now speaks German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese and Dutch as well as English, spoken alerts included; it follows the phone's language, with a choice in Settings.

Route colours in GPX and KML exports

Exported tracks now keep each route's colour and line width, imported tracks included, for Cruiser, Locus Map, gpx.studio and Garmin; KML draws each route in its own colour.

Cached searches follow category changes

When a category's rules change, results cached under the old rules are discarded and searched again, so a cache can no longer hide places such as e-bike chargers.

Charger details in the POI popup

Popups now show who runs a place and, for chargers, which sockets it has; unnamed POIs are titled by their category ("E-bike charging") instead of a raw OSM value.

Shared projects show every stop again

A shared project could show only the stops it was saved with and hide the rest; searches now include everything found along the route.

Topo map, hill shading and contours in On-the-go

The Topo map style from the website, plus optional hill shading and contour lines; the offline map now keeps your chosen style and works with no route loaded.

More accurate stops in On-the-go

Opening hours no longer say "open" on public holidays they can't check, non-drinkable water is labelled as such, e-bike charging is found, and the Emergency button works in Find Nearby.

Open a project from the share sheet

Share a .psp from Drive, email or a chat app straight into PitStopper On-the-go.

E-bike charging

Bike Services has a new E-bike charging category: charging points that OpenStreetMap marks as open to bikes.

Outdoors map works again

The Outdoors layer showed a blank map; it now opens the Topo style on our own tiles, and Thunderforest is gone.

Topo map style

A new Topo style in the map style picker brings out footpaths, bridleways and tracks, and names summits and passes, for planning off-road.

Preview the GPX before exporting

Advanced options in the export dialog now has Preview GPX, which shows the file your settings would write, syntax-highlighted, with a button to copy it.

The PitStopper trailer

A 57-second trailer now sits beside the intro video on the home page.

Auto order: round trips checked both ways round

On a plan that starts and finishes in the same place, Auto order now gives the same answer every time and tries each order in both directions, keeping whichever is better on the road.

A fine outline on every POI icon

POI icons now carry a thin outline, on the map pins, in the lists and in the icons sent inside a .gpz, so they stay crisp against busy maps and coloured pins.

SVG icons in a .gpz, and smaller PNGs

A .gpz can now carry our icons as PNG, SVG or both, with the light and dark SVG sets together by default. The PNGs are two thirds smaller, with no difference you can see.

Starred and flagged waypoints get their own shape

On a GPX export, starred waypoints can be drawn as a square and flagged ones as an octagon, so they stand out from the round markers in OsmAnd.

Send our icons inside a .gpz

Tick "Compress it (.gpz)" on a GPX export and you can now pack our POI icons in with it, so Locus Map and GPX Viewer draw ours instead of their own. Pick the set drawn for light or dark maps.

New icons for every kind of place

Map pins, the POI list, popups and the 3D view now use Pinhead, a public-domain set drawn for maps. A bench looks like a bench and six kinds of water no longer share one droplet. The Quick Presets got the same treatment.

A page showing every POI icon and its map tag

A new reference page lists every kind of place we look for, the OpenStreetMap tag it matches, and the icon that draws it. The artwork is Pinhead, which is public domain, so the whole mapping is there to be taken. Find it under More.

Proper icons for your stops in OsmAnd

OsmAnd never reads the symbol field the rest of the world uses, so every place we exported arrived there as the same blank marker. Exported waypoints now carry the icon and shape OsmAnd understands, so a cafe looks like a cafe.

Auto plan stops is in the help guide

The feature shipped without a word of documentation. There is now a section explaining the presets, what the priority order does, how it picks, and why a place it thinks is shut can still be chosen.

Alternatives on a long route

A very long plan found its route but then reported that alternatives were unavailable, because each alternative was cut off after 40 seconds however long the route itself had taken. They now get a share of whatever the main route needed.

Compare routes and Auto order show they are working

Both can run for several seconds. Each now spins in the button while it does, and Auto order stays clickable so you can still stop it.

Go back into the planner to change your stops

A route drawn in the planner keeps its plan, so you can reopen it and move, add or reorder stops, change the profile, or run Auto order again. POIs already found are remeasured against the new route, and you are told if it now goes somewhere the search has not looked.

Turn markers on and off from the View menu

Showing turn instructions on the map had one control, a checkbox inside the Navigation data panel, and the setting sticks between visits. It is now in the View menu too, where you can see whether it is on.

Turn instructions follow the order you pick

Choosing one of Auto order's suggestions left the turn-by-turn cues belonging to a different route, scattering turn markers well off the line and writing them into the exported file. They now match the route on screen.

Check every leg

Auto order measures only the legs it needs, which is fast but is an estimate. A new button after a run measures every pair and solves the order exactly, reusing what was already measured, with progress as it goes.

Auto order names its answers by what they measured

An option called Shortest could be longer than one called Quickest, because the names came from the estimate rather than the finished route. Each option is now named after what it actually wins, and one that wins nothing is no longer offered.

Blog: twenty stops, one terrible order

Twenty National Trust places in Kent, typed in list order, came to 653 km. Auto order gets the same twenty down to 322 km, and the post shows what it measured to get there.

A guide to the route planner

A new page walks through planning a route: profiles, routing one section differently, turn-by-turn instructions and Auto order, with a screenshot of each. It is under Guides in the menu, beside the one on adding POIs to a GPX file.

Auto order

The route planner can work out the cheapest order to visit your stops in, keeping the start and finish where they are. The answers arrive as route options beside your own order, each saying what it saves, so nothing moves until you pick one. Pin a stop to keep it where it is, and press Cancel if you change your mind. Up to twenty stops.

A route being re-planned no longer shows as a white line

The route is drawn as a coloured line over a white casing, and three places removed the line while leaving the casing behind. Re-planning, loading a project and switching to location mode now clear both.

A busy routing server no longer looks like a broken route

When a routing server asks to be tried again later, PitStopper now retries its own server rather than giving up, and says the server is busy instead of suggesting you change profile.

Open when you get there

The POI list now says whether a place is open at the time you reach it, not just the popup, with a count of the ones that look shut. Auto plan stops prefers somewhere open unless you tell it not to, and the report and CSV mark the rest. Public holidays are judged by the country you are riding in rather than Britain's.

Re-time a track that has its own times

Setting a speed now re-times a recorded or imported track, turn-by-turn ones included, while keeping the file's own times: exports use yours by default or the file's if you choose, and one button takes you back.

Starting time & average pace, in a full window

Clock Time is now called Starting time & average pace and opens full-window, with the event's start, your average speed and the day's daylight side by side, and it lives in the sidebar's Tools menu with the other route tools. It shows how long the route takes now beside what a new speed would make it, and the daylight details fold away until you want them.

Your times against the file's

Once a track is re-timed, the window compares the two: duration and average speed side by side, and a line showing how far ahead or behind the file's pace you run along the route.

Undo a cleared starting time

Clearing or saving a starting time can now be undone with Ctrl+Z (Cmd+Z on a Mac) or Edit → Undo.

More of PitStopper in your language

Plan Stops, Share Project, Send to Phone, Find POIs on the map and parts of the export dialog were still in English in the other six languages; they are now translated.

Steady pace

Starting time & average pace can spread a trip at the same speed everywhere instead of slowing on climbs, and its estimate updates as you switch.

Places you pass twice, with several routes loaded

Multi-pass detection used to be skipped whenever a project held more than one route. Each route is now measured against its own line, so an out-and-back day gets its per-pass waypoints alongside the others.

The export dialog says why an option is unavailable

"A waypoint for each pass" used to disappear when it could not apply. It is now greyed out with the reason, such as a second route being loaded or the POI choice leaving those places out.

Times on GPX waypoints

Tick the times option and GPX waypoints now carry the track's time at their point, so apps that sort waypoints by time list them in the order you reach them.

A GPX waypoint for each pass

On an out-and-back, the GPX export can now write a place you pass twice as two waypoints, each with its own side and time, the way the FIT export already writes course points.

Planned times in exported names

GPX, FIT and KML exports can add the time you reach each POI to its name, such as "Water 15:15", and distance markers can carry theirs too, counted from your start time.

Estimated times in turn-by-turn exports

Include estimated times on the track now works for planned turn-by-turn routes, counting from a start time you can set right in the export dialog; before, those files had no times, or times from 1 January 2000.

Turn-by-turn tracks end with an arrival

Planned and converted routes now close on a destination cue at the finish, as Cruiser does, so navigation apps announce your arrival.

Last turn shows its time

The final instruction in the turn list now shows how long its leg to the finish takes, and imported timed tracks show leg times too.

Starred / flagged only on the POI Graph

A new POI Graph toggle plots just your starred and flagged POIs, so the gaps between your chosen stops stand out.

POI Graph redraws after a star or flag

Starring or flagging from the graph's card now updates the point's ring straight away.

Print button on the multi-route report

The POI report for several routes now has a Print button, like the single-route report.

Planner spinner waits for every request

The planner's busy spinner now stays up until the route, its alternatives and the turn-by-turn track have all finished, and closing the planner clears it.

Planner alternatives no longer spin for minutes

A slow alternative route is now given up after 40 seconds, with a short message, while the main route stays ready, and a route to a place no longer shows three identical alternatives.

Darkness warning for rides past midnight

A ride that ends after midnight, or runs over several days, now shows the darkness warning in Clock Time and the GPX summary.

Saved plans keep "Riding in the wet" and "Prefer unpaved tracks"

Reopening a project saved mid-planning now restores those two routing options, instead of routing without them.

Finish & plan next day names the day again

A route finished with "Finish & plan next day" is named as Day 1 of the trip again, instead of staying "Planned route".

Right-click a route to see your arrival time there

The map's right-click menu now shows the clock time you'll reach that point, from the route's Clock Time, alongside the time from the start.

Escape no longer abandons a Send to Phone transfer

Pressing Escape while a transfer waits for your phone now asks first, and cancels it on the relay if you close.

Route summary climbs follow a units switch

The climbs and famous climbs in an open route summary now switch between km and miles with everything else, instead of keeping the old unit.

Half-kilometre distance markers read correctly

Distance markers at a 0.5 km or 0.5 mi interval now read "0.5km, 1km, 1.5km" on the map and in exported waypoint names, instead of repeating whole numbers.

Planner event times set the clock time fully

Finishing a planned route with an event date and time now does what the Clock Time dialog does: later days of a trip follow on, and open popups and the darkness warning update.

Deleted projects leave the list at once

Deleting a project from the Load Project list now removes it from the list straight away, instead of leaving it there until the list was reopened.

The header shows the open project again

The header names the route file and open project again, and follows the name as soon as it changes - including when a project is downloaded as a .psp file.

Event stickers from INFO POIs

A route whose only marked POIs are INFO markers can now make an event sticker, instead of being told there is nothing to put on one.

A blocked print window says so

When the browser blocks the POI report, event sticker or weather print window, PitStopper now tells you to allow pop-ups instead of doing nothing.

Projects with an apostrophe in the name open again

Load, Download and Delete on a saved project card now work when the project's name contains an apostrophe or quotes.

Category limits show on the row again

A category limited to its closest POIs now says "(Top 5)" beside its name, and its settings button lights up.

Changing a POI's type keeps its popup open

Picking INFO, Alert, Danger or Event Sticker on a manual POI now reopens its popup with the new type, instead of closing it.

Custom search distances show on the category row

A category with its own search distance now shows it beside its name, in your units.

Open POI popups and a few quiet messages catch up

An open POI popup now updates when you switch units or set or clear the clock time, and shows its opening-hours badge. The far route search's result and failure messages appear, and a project deleted from the load dialog leaves the landing page.

Multi-route report charts say feet

In imperial units the multi-route print report's elevation axis now reads feet, matching its values.

Add to Route in the closest-POI popup adds the place

After a right-click and Query Closest POI, the popup's Add to Route button now adds the place to your found POIs. It used to clear the marker and add nothing.

Climbs with an apostrophe open on the map

In the climb database, show on map did nothing for climbs such as Col d'Agnes and Alpe d'Huez; it works for every climb now.

Firefox: the map is smooth again

Panning and zooming a route with a lot of points of interest was stuttering badly in Firefox. Each marker's pin carried a soft drop shadow, and Firefox repainted every one of them on every frame; the shadow is drawn a cheaper way now. Measured on a route with 400 markers, panning went from 15 frames a second to 60. Chrome and Safari were never affected.

A proper menu drawer on phones

The app menu now slides in from the left like any other phone app, full height with the map dimmed behind it, and closes on a tap outside, on the button, or with Escape. It also fixes a bug where About and Help stayed stuck on screen over the sidebar button instead of collapsing with the rest of the menu.

GPZ files, in and out

A .gpz is a zipped GPX, and it now opens like any other route file - drop it in, replace a route with it, or add several at once. You can save one too: tick Compress it (.gpz) when exporting. A 1.2 MB matched track becomes 163 KB, and Cruiser, Locus Map and GPX Viewer all open it directly.

The staging site says so, and sends you home when there is nothing to test

pitstopper.net/staging now carries a banner explaining what it is, and moves you to the live site automatically whenever the two are running the same build. Shared project links keep working either way: the link is handed over before anything reads it, so it opens once, on the live site.

A mountain switchback is no longer called a u-turn

A 180 degree bend that stays on the same road is now announced as a sharp left or right, because there is no junction to turn at. Doubling back at a junction or onto the road beside you is still a u-turn.

A tidier Track to Paths/Roads panel

The Level of detail buttons now explain themselves on hover, What counts as a deviation sits with them rather than further down, and the "Match again" button has gone: pressing any of these settings re-runs the match on the spot.

Fewer turn instructions on a road you never leave, and hairpin warnings you can switch off

A bend in the road you are already on is no longer an instruction unless it is genuinely sharp, which on a mountain track removes about a third of the turn list. Sharp ones stay as a warning that a hairpin is coming, and a new Hairpin warnings tick box in the Track to Paths/Roads panel and on Compare tracks turns even those off. A u-turn is always announced whatever the setting.

Direction arrows on the track comparer

Each track on Compare tracks now carries small arrows showing which way it runs, in its own colour. Two lines drawn on top of each other say nothing about direction on their own, and a conversion that reverses a track used to look identical to one that did not.

Where a converted track follows your recording

When no road or path is mapped under part of your track, PitStopper keeps that stretch exactly as you recorded it rather than inventing one. The match report now lists those stretches instead of only totalling them, and hovering one lights it up on the map so you can see which bit it means.

Right-click a road to see what the map knows about it

What is this road? on the map's right-click menu shows the OpenStreetMap tags for the ways under your click - what it is, what it is surfaced with, and who is allowed on it - with a plain answer to the question behind most odd-looking conversions: whether PitStopper will match your track to it, and if a restriction was lifted, which mode lifted it.

Proper turn arrows

The turn list and the map now use drawings made for navigation rather than general-purpose arrows: a sharp turn is acute instead of a right angle, a keep-left shows the fork with one arrowhead, a roundabout says which way round, and the three kinds of u-turn are three different pictures instead of one.

Turn instructions show up on the comparer's map

Each row of Turn instructions now has its own marker on the map, drawn with that turn's arrow. Hovering a row lights the place up and clicking one goes there, so a turn listed at 556 m no longer has to be hunted for.

U-turns now say which way, and stop claiming turns that are not

A sharp turn that doubles back is only a u-turn if it puts you on the same road or one right beside it, so the turn list checks where the road comes back rather than the angle alone. Going back the way you came stays a plain u-turn, leaving you free to turn round either way; coming back on the road alongside is now written as a left or right u-turn, which Locus and Cruiser draw with a direction arrow.

One dialog for exporting points of interest too

Export POIs now offers GPX, Mapsforge and CSV in one place, with each format's own options below the choice. CSV used to be a separate menu entry opening a separate dialog, which meant the starred and flagged filters could never be applied to it.

One export dialog, with the fiddly bits folded away

Export a file replaces the separate GPX, FIT and KML entries - the format is now a choice inside the dialog, so changing your mind no longer means starting again. Only the options that change what goes in the file are on show; the rest sit under Advanced options.

Send to Phone: open your route in any map app

Export → Send to Phone gives you a QR code. Scan it, the route saves to your phone, and your phone's own "open with" offers Cruiser, Locus Map, OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps, Komoot, Garmin Connect or anything else that takes a route file. It uses the same export dialog as a download, so every option applies, and you can send a GPX or a FIT. The link works once, expires after ten minutes, and tells you when your phone has collected it. It is end-to-end encrypted, like a project share: the key rides in the link and never reaches our server.

Menu bar reordered

Export now sits last on the left with an icon, since it is where the GPX, FIT, print report and phone transfers live and it was the menu people could not find. About and Help have moved to the far right beside the save chip.

Category search forgives a typo, and knows what you call things

resturant, phamacy and bicylce now find what you meant, and chemist, cashpoint, layby, bothy, bike shop and sleep all work. Typo correction only runs when the exact spelling found nothing, so a correct search is never diluted by near misses.

Category search now speaks your language

Searching the category list understands fontaine, drinkwater, Zeltplatz and several hundred other words per language, and one term finds a whole family - eau brings up every kind of water point at once. Synonyms come from Organic Maps' open category data.

Tell OpenStreetMap when something is wrong

A Report button on any point of interest that came from OpenStreetMap sends a public OSM Note - "this tap is gone", "this is not the right place" - for a local mapper to act on. It writes a note, never an edit, so nothing on the map can be damaged by it.

"Allow ferries" and "Allow steps" now work both ways

Clearing either box did nothing: BRouter's profiles allow both by default and the planner only ever sent the permissive value, so a route could still be put on a ferry after you had said no. Both boxes now start ticked, matching what the router actually does, and clearing one genuinely rules it out.

Ferries, steps, toll roads and six more barriers

Hazards & Obstacles now finds ferry crossings, flights of steps and toll roads, plus lift gates, kissing gates, stiles, bollards, blocks and swing gates. This matters most on an imported route, where no router ever weighed any of it.

Obstacles in the route comparison

Comparing planner alternatives now shows what is on each one - "1 × Ford, 2 × Barrier" - beside the distance and climb, so a route that is 400 m shorter but crosses a ford is an informed choice. One lookup covers every option.

Choose what counts as a deviation, in the panel

Track to Paths/Roads now has the three deviation settings the compare tool has, each button showing what it would find, so "four findings" reads as a threshold rather than a fact. Switching is instant.

Clearer choices after a match

The two buttons at the end now name the route they act on - Keep both, Delete the original, Delete the matched one - instead of "Keep only the matched track" and "Discard it", which never said which route was going.

Hover a difference to see it on the map

Pointing at an entry in Differences worth looking at draws an amber band over that stretch on both lines and lights up its pin, and hovering the pin lights up the entry. Keyboard focus does the same.

Match to Roads is now Track to Paths/Roads

The old name suggested it only handled roads. It matches bridleways, footpaths and tracks just as happily, which is most of what a walk is made of.

Match to Roads reports what the compare tool reports

The panel now measures the matched line against your recording with the same code as compare-tracks.html, so it lists every stretch where the two part company in either direction, ranked, and names the roads each is on. It used to report only the places the matched line strayed, which meant a section it skipped or added never appeared.

Compare tracks: the results lead with a verdict

The comparison now opens with a one-sentence verdict per conversion, the headline table is down to six columns that fit beside the map, and Places worth looking at is an index that jumps to each deviation rather than a second copy of it.

The comparisons you have shared, listed

The Share dialog now lists the links this browser has made, with how long each has left and how often it has been opened, and lets you copy one again or withdraw it early. Expired ones stay on the list, greyed, so a link that stopped working has a visible reason.

Compare tracks speaks eight languages

The whole page follows the language you have the site set to, the measured findings included, with numbers in that language's own format. Pick a language from the flag in the top bar.

Compare tracks is easier to find

It is linked from the More menu across the site and listed in the sitemap, and the page now answers the common questions about it in a section under the results.

The comparer says which road, what shape, and where to look first

Each deviation now names the OpenStreetMap ways under both lines, says whether it is a parallel line, a cut corner, a shortcut or a detour, and a Places worth looking at section ranks them so a long ride does not start with twenty equal-weight entries.

Compare tracks reads FIT files

Drop a .fit straight in rather than exporting it to GPX first, and a new table shows what each file kept: elevation, times, heart rate, cadence, power and the ascent they add up to.

Compare tracks: a page for checking one track against another

A standalone page, compare-tracks.html: load a track, run it through PitStopper's engine, and optionally add another tool's conversion. It shows where each one leaves the original, what OpenStreetMap has under each line, and whether the turn instructions agree, and the matched track can be downloaded.

The map states what counts as a deviation, and a What counts as a deviation setting tightens or loosens it for a closer look.

The menus are shorter, and each tool has one home

Twelve of the thirteen sidebar tools were also listed in the menu bar. They are not any more: Route drops 12 to 6, POI 7 to 3, View 5 to 3, and the one-item Info menu is gone. The Tools menu is grouped into My route and The map.

Navigation data looks like every other panel on a phone

It opened as a floating card with its own header, while every other tool is a sidebar panel. Now it is one too, at any width.

Weather controls move off the map, and temperature gets a switch

The weather toggles were a bar floating over the map they were controlling. They are a sidebar panel now, with the ride's start time at the top. Temperature gets a switch of its own - it was the only layer you could not turn off.

Find a country in the Climb Database by typing it

The filter listed ISO codes, so you had to guess between GB, UK and England. Type any of them now - or holland, or espana.

The Bulk POI Editor takes the window

It is a table, and it was in an 850px box. The name and note columns get the room now.

Preferences takes the window, and now holds Theme and Units

Both were submenus you had to hover to find. They are sections in Preferences, which now fills the window. The theme tick was also lying: it read a key nothing wrote, so it always said Auto.

Pointing at a turn shows it on the map again

Hovering a turn drew only a faint ring unless "Show turns on the map" was on. It draws the turn's own arrow now, either way.

Typing a coordinate now actually goes there

Decimal, DMS and Plus Code entry were broken in both Search for a location and Add POI - six ways in, none working. All six work now.

Distance markers start at 10, in your own units

It opened at 1, which offered 143 markers on a 144 km route, and in kilometres whatever units you use.

Search for a location, and Distance Markers, are sidebar panels

Both were modals covering the map they worked on. As panels the map stays visible and the panel stays open, so you can try an interval and look.

The four map-search tools are now in one place

Draw a box, draw a shape, query a point and find the closest place lived in three unrelated menus. They are one panel, Find POIs on the map, and the results appear in it.

Wind you can actually read

The animated field looked identical at 4 km/h and 40. Weather view now shows an arrow and a speed at points along the route, coloured red for headwind, amber cross, green tail. The field is still there, off by default.

Export filenames that say what is in the file

The reviewer's suggestion: tick what you want and the export builds the name - Ride_wpt_navtrk.gpx, plus distance, POI count, climb, date, shape and more. Your choices are remembered.

Full search along route: point at a result to see where it is

Search Route is now Full search along route. Pointing at a result rings it on the map, there is a corridor width slider, and Further away finds places by name anywhere.

The "..." menu is now called Tools

Three dots said nothing about what was behind them.

Fixed: the map scale you couldn't read

White on white on light tiles. It now has its own contrast.

Auto plan stops moved into the sidebar

Plan Stops is Auto plan stops, a stepped panel rather than a modal. Its suggestions behave like POIs - hover to highlight, click to open.

Mobile: the map gets its screen back

A pass over the phone layout, mostly giving space back to the map:

• Both rows of map buttons fold away behind one button, at full touch size. The bottom set now runs up the left edge instead of scrolling sideways with five of thirteen off the screen.
• A blue "?" button on each set captions every button with what it does - the tooltip a desktop user gets on hover. Clears after five seconds.
• Menu, panel and auto-save buttons sit in one row, and step out of the way when the sidebar is open.
• The planner drops its heading, its Search button and its tabs while you draw, and its Done once the full-width "Done routing, discover POIs" appears. Controls above the start and finish boxes: 422px down to 315px.
• Elevation thumbnail is shorter and has lost its "Tap to expand" badge.
• The coloured strip across the top is gone - the map runs to the top of the screen, and the Routes heading shares the row with the buttons.
• Panning is seven times smoother - a full 60 frames a second on a mid-range phone, where it managed about 8 before. The map draws at a lower resolution while it is moving and full sharpness the moment it stops, and phones now start on a raster basemap, which pans at twice the frame rate of the vector one. Hill shading, contour lines and translated map labels need the vector map, so switch back from the map-layer button if you want them - it remembers.
• The attribution folds into a © you can tap instead of a line of text across the bottom of the map.
• The menu and auto-save buttons follow your phone's dark mode, as the map buttons and sidebar already did.
• The lone navigation button on the map is gone - the View menu and the sidebar panel already open the same turn list.

Fixed along the way: the sidebar started in two states at once, so the panel button did nothing but hide itself; switching tabs mid-plan left a sidebar with no way out; and the "Navigation data" button sat on top of the buttons beside it.

An empty notification bar that was always there

The toast that shows messages like "GPX file loaded" was being drawn even with nothing in it - an empty bar with a shadow, sitting at the top of the page from the moment it loaded. On a desktop it hid behind the header; on a phone it appeared as an unexplained white strip across the top. It now stays out of the way until there is something to say.

Turn markers are now off until you ask for them

The turn arrows on the map used to appear the moment a route with navigation data loaded. A matched recording can carry sixty of them, which buries the route you came to look at - worst on a phone. The turn list is unchanged; the markers on the map are now opt-in, from "Show turns on the map" in the Navigation data panel, and it remembers your choice.

Step through POIs with the arrow keys

With a POI popup open, left and right move to the previous and next one along the route - the same thing the arrows on the popup do, without reaching for the mouse. Useful when you are working along a route deciding where to stop.

The keys only take over while a popup is open; with the map itself in focus they still pan it as before.

The map buttons, sorted into two kinds

The buttons around the map were mixed together. They are now split by what they are: the bar along the bottom holds view and map controls - zoom, undo, which basemap, how it is lit, and what is drawn on it - while the strip down the right holds actions you take, like searching, querying a spot or editing the track.

So Show/Hide POIs, named peaks, the starred and flagged filters, and POI clustering have moved to the bottom bar. All the map's toggles now show the same orange marker when they are on. The Previous and Next POI buttons have been removed.

Contour lines on the map

A second button beside the hill shading turns on contour lines, with the heights labelled on the major ones. Shading shows you the shape of the ground; contours give you the numbers, so you can tell a steady drag from a wall before you have opened the elevation profile.

They follow your units: metres get round metre intervals, miles get round foot ones - 500 ft rather than the 164 ft you would get from converting a 50 m line. They are drawn in your browser from the same elevation data the hill shading already uses, so there is nothing extra to download.

Fixes from the live error log

A ride crossing the Greenwich meridian could break the 3D view. Longitude zero was being read as "no longitude", which turned the camera position into nonsense and stopped the 3D map opening. It runs straight through London, so this was not the edge case it sounds like.

Separately, start-up was all-or-nothing: if any one part of it failed, everything set up after that point quietly did not happen, leaving a scattering of buttons that did nothing and no clue why. Start-up now carries on past a failure and names the part that broke.

Your saved projects, two at a time and drawn

The Load Project list is wider, in two columns, and each project now carries a little drawing of its own route - the shape of the ride, no map behind it. A loop looks like a loop and an out-and-back looks like an out-and-back, which is how you recognise a project well before you have read its name.

"View all projects" on the front page also opens the list when it gets there. It used to take you to the app and leave the list shut, so the one thing you had asked for was the one thing that did not happen.