PitStopper.net Changelog

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Editing track in the sidebar

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Tooltips on the right-click menu

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Learn more in the help

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Re-plan a section: alternatives and Before / After

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Re-plan a section of a track

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Famous climbs in the right country

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Room for long category names

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Via point changes are auto-saved

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pace Maker in miles

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Help for six more tools

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

First-route video: star the stops you will use

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Watch the video

Help contents follow your reading

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Help from the window you are in

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

The POI Graph against time

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

The elevation profile against time

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pace Maker, easier to use

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Times follow your pace profile

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pace Maker from the starting-time dialog

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

"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 as Cruiser writes it.

Learn more in the help

Turn instructions that come as waypoints

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

A selected stretch stays zoomed

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pace Maker learns more

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pace Maker

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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).

Learn more in the help

Time for stops, your way

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

A category's icon reaches every stop

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Imported stops get a type of your own

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Choose which pass of a place to export

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Pick the right pass of a shared road

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Two-way arrows on out-and-back roads

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Learn more in the help

Back to start and Out and back

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Surface bar while planning

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Learn more in the help

Add a POI to your planned route

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Learn more in the help

Drag the planned route line

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Via and shaping points on any track

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

New video: your first route

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Climb gradients on or off

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Icon backgrounds in .gpz SVGs

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Your own stop types

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Icon sizes

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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 (, or KML's icon scale) is drawn at it, and the GPX Inspector shows a file's icons at their anchor and size.

Learn more in the help

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Steepness colours from the elevation chart

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Learn more in the help

GPX Inspector previews waypoint-only files

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

GPX Inspector reads more from FIT and KML

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Google Earth flyover

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

KML with icons (.kmz)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.

Learn more in the help

Changelog RSS feed

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT

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.