31 posts tagged with "Desktop"

The desktop's Library has a place for bringing files in and taking items out. Drop GPX and GeoJSON files on it, or anywhere on the map, and see on the map what they will become before anything is saved.

The desktop planner keeps a few things of its own for your account: your settings, your sketch, your projects, your riding modes. Until today, deleting your account did not remove them, and a copy of your data did not include them. Both now do.

Ask the desktop planner for a loop and it now brings back up to three: one in the direction you chose and one on each side of it. Each comes with its figures and a badge where it stands out, and the map shows them all so you can compare before you pick.

The rider app's weather timeline is now on the desktop planner's map: the rain radar of the last hours, our own nowcast, then the forecast, with the forecast's wind gusts, temperature and visibility. Same frames, same colours, same names as on the phone, and your stops are marked on it.

The desktop planner now says when you reach each stop and what the weather is there at that moment, lets you plan at your own pace, and can look for a drier way when the forecast finds rain. The phone has had all three; the desktop uses the same names and asks the same questions.

The phone has long offered the routing engine's other ways from A to B, and a scenic bias that leans a route toward the best roads. Both are on the desktop planner now, with the same names and the same requests.

Planning a ride often starts in the library: last year's loop, a friend's track, the beaches you saved along a coast. Now you can pick any of them in the desktop library and send them to the planner as layers, to plan beside them.

The desktop route planner used to offer four vehicle buttons and four built-in riding modes with names nobody rides by: Twisty Tourer, Fast Transfer, Scenic Cruiser and Gravel Curious. It now asks two questions in the words riders use: which vehicle, and which style.

The desktop library put everything you saved on one map this morning. One thing still took you away from it: opening an item went to a page of its own, and the map, the list and your search were gone until you came back. That page is gone. An item now opens in a panel beside the list, in the same window.

The desktop library used to be a page of cards, each with a small picture of its line, and a separate page per item. It is now a room of the same window as the planner: one map with everything you saved on it, and a list beside it that is the index of what the map draws.