Free worldwide route planner for outdoor pursuits
including walking, running and cycling

We're pleased to announce a number of changes designed to help with the management of route directions for individual routes.

Firstly, we added in the ability to change the default turn arrows generated when you plot a route. These are chosen automatically based on the shape of the route, but you can now override them if you wish when editing the directions.

Secondly, we've introduced a new option to display turn arrows on the map, so that you can see at a glance where all the important turns are. You can easily toggle the display of these turn arrows in the same way as you can for symbols, labels, direction arrows and distance markers. And, if you have turn arrows displayed, these will also be shown when you print a route map or when you download a route map as an image file.

Next, to assist with navigation of routes on GPS devices, we've amended the route directions to automatically add a FINISH at the end of the route. This also means that the print outs with directions will now include an ETA for finishing the route, if you have the Timer feature turned on when printing it.

Lastly, we've amended our GPX download feature to make use of the full Garmin symbol set. Previously a waypoint was created for each of the directions with the default Blue Flag symbol, but now if you've chosen a symbol in the route planner to associate with one of the directions, a corresponding Garmin symbol will be used for the waypoint in the GPX file, provided that a matching symbol exists. The Garmin symbol set is fairly limited though, so the Blue Flag will still be used where a corresponding Garmin symbol is not available.