Following your feedback, new features have been added to explore and create more easily your routes and itineraries (walking courses, hiking, ...).
New features for MapPlanner
New languages available
The site is now translated in 5 languages:
- French
- English
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
If you see any translation errors, please let us know :)
In addition, each course description is also automatically translated to facilitate its understanding in other countries.
Site available in PWA
This technology allows you to install the site (through Chrome Mobile) as a mobile application on your smartphone. You can then launch the site directly from your list of applications.
This also allows you to consult the route even if you don't have a network! Remember to visit the route on your phone before leaving to save it with the map.
Plan your own route
MapPlanner helps you calculate distances, elevation, duration and plan your hikes, runs and bike rides on an interactive map.
- Automatic distance & elevation calculation
- Topographic, satellite maps
- GPX/KML export for your GPS
- Real-time GPS tracking
New features for the rides
Locate your position
Under each route map, you can geo-locate yourself to know your current position in relation to the route. Moreover, once located, another button appears to follow your position in real time with your orientation!
You can then follow your location live and check if you are following the planned path.
Weather forecast
A new button appears in the route sheet: display the weather forecast.
With the help of open-meteo, you can check the weather forecast for the next 7 days. And above all, know the temperature and precipitation to avoid surprises.
Comments
For all public routes, other users will be able to add comments on your route. This will allow you to give details about the difficulty, the changes of indication, ...
Break time
You can now indicate a pause time when adding a route or a performance. This time will be deducted from the total time for the calculation of your performances.
This makes it easier to indicate the total time and the break will be automatically deducted.
New search features
Dedicated page for search
A specific page to search for routes and trips has been added.
You can now select different criteria:
- Find a route by location or keywords
- Display the routes around your current position
- Filter the routes by difficulty level, time or distance
