PitStopper for boaters

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PitStopper for boaters Early preview

A cruise on a canal runs on locks, water and pump-outs. PitStopper counts the locks along your route, puts the services where they are, and adds a wait at each lock to the time.

This is an early preview: check what it finds before you rely on it, and tell me what is missing.

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The Regent's Canal with the Boater preset: locks, moorings, water points and canalside cafes.
The Regent's Canal with the Boater preset: locks, moorings, water points and canalside cafes.

What changes for boaters

Routing for a boat

Boat in the planner stays on canals and rivers, and avoids a river nobody has marked as navigable.

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The Boater preset

Locks, moorings, marinas, water points, pump-outs, boat fuel, chandlers, turning points, pubs, shops and toilets, in one tap.

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Locks and lock-miles

A boat trip planned here gets a route card that counts its locks and its lock-miles, the way canal cruising is measured.

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Lock waits in the time

On a boat trip planned here, set the minutes you expect to wait at each lock, and every stop after it arrives later.

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A graph for services

The POI graph opens on water points and pump-outs for a boat trip, so the gaps between them are the first thing you see.

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Edit as a boat route

Open a canal GPX in Edit track and it is spotted as a waterway and edited as a boat route, never snapped onto a road.

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Try it in a minute

  1. Load the example route.
  2. Tap Boater in the POI presets on the left.
  3. Open the POI graph to see where the water points and pump-outs fall.

Open Regent's Canal, Camden Lock to Little Venice A short run of London canal, 4 km from Camden Lock to Little Venice. Download the GPX.

Pointing at a stop by the canal.
Pointing at a stop by the canal.

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