Quickstart
1. Click the map
Each click adds a waypoint. From the second one on, the leg follows paths to it.
2. Set your pace
In Route Settings, set the start time, date, flat speed and climb rate: arrival times follow.
3. Save, share, print
File → Save (signed in), Share for a link, or Print Pack for a paper copy.
Waypoints
- Add: click the map. Move: drag a marker. Reorder: drag a waypoint in the list.
- Insert a point between two others with the insert button on a waypoint, then click the map.
- Rest (minutes) and notes per waypoint: they appear on the route card and print pack.
- Names: a new waypoint is named after the nearest summit, col or valley, else a nearby village (within 2 km), else the local grid reference. The name menu on a waypoint switches between place name, grid reference and coordinates, or type your own. The default is in Route Settings → Waypoint Names.
- Lock the route (padlock on the Waypoints panel) to stop accidental changes.
Tip
Click a waypoint in the list to highlight it on the map; Escape closes open panels.
Shift+click
Hold Shift while clicking the map to add a waypoint with auto-routing the other way round for that one leg: a straight line when routing is on by default, a routed leg when it is off.
Routing
- Legs are auto-routed along paths for walkers (BRouter, worldwide OpenStreetMap data). The route button on each waypoint switches its leg between routed and a straight line.
- Route Settings → Auto-route New Legs sets the default for new waypoints.
- Alpine paths: some summits can only be reached on paths graded alpine (SAC T4 and up: exposed, scrambling). The app uses them only when there is no easier way, and warns you with the grade and roughly how far.
- Very long legs (over 40 km in a straight line) ask first: a route card is for one walk, so make one route per day or add waypoints in between.
- If no path is found, the leg is drawn as a straight line and you are told.
Elevation profile
To scale
Distance along the bottom is the flat (map) distance along the route, to scale; heights come with the route or from terrain data for straight legs.
Follow the route
Move the pointer over the profile: a dot follows on the profile and a marker on the map. Click (or tap) for the distance, height and gradient at that point.
Route colours
Route Settings → Route Colours colours the line and the profile by steepness, elevation or effort (compared with flat ground); the legend sits above the profile.
Climb
Total ascent is the climbing along the route, with small bumps smoothed out.
Route settings
Name, start time, date
The name shows on exports and the card; start time and date give arrival times, sunrise and sunset.
Flat speed, climb rate
Naismith-style timing: time on the flat plus time for the climb. Match them to your group and the ground.
Calories
Enter body and pack weight for an energy estimate that accounts for the slopes along the way. Kept in this browser only; leave body weight empty to hide it.
Units, names, routing, colours
km or miles, how new waypoints are named, whether new legs are auto-routed, and the route colours. The bookmark button saves your settings as the default.
Map view & pills
On a phone, or after pressing the expand button on the map, the map fills the window and the panels open from pills at the top right:
- Waypoints: the list, summary and editing tools.
- Elevation: the profile.
- Settings: Route Settings.
A summary pill shows distance, time and climb. Press the same pill again, the close button or Escape to close a panel.
Top bar
Undo/Redo, View (route card, weather, safety, Discover routes), File (new, open, save, share, publish, export, print), Account, and this help (the help button).
Route card & print pack
Route card
View → Route Card: a table with each leg's grid reference, distance, climb, times, bearings (true and magnetic), arrival, rests and notes, plus sunrise and sunset.
Print pack
File → Print Pack opens a printable page: map, legs, totals and the forecast, for the group and your safety contact.
Safety details
View → Safety: who is going, medical notes, emergency plan, late-back time and contacts, and a kit list. They are saved with the route and show to anyone with its share link (meant for your group), but are hidden on public routes from everyone but you. The safety form is a printable version for your contact.
Weather
View → Weather: the forecast for a waypoint from MET Norway (yr.no): temperature, rain, wind speed with direction arrows, and symbols, hour by hour as far as the forecast goes, then in longer steps. Pick the waypoint that matters most (the summit, say). Reopen it after moving waypoints.
Grid references
Waypoints show the local grid reference where the app knows the national grid: Irish Grid, British National Grid, Swiss LV95, French Lambert-93, Dutch RD, Slovenian D96/TM and New Zealand NZTM. Everywhere else (between 80°S and 84°N) it uses MGRS, the worldwide military grid also printed on many topographic maps.
Save, share, publish
- Save (signed in): a private route only your account can open, from any device.
- Share: a link anyone can open, no account needed. Works when signed out too (such a route has no owner, so it cannot be edited afterwards). A new link can replace the old one.
- Publish (signed in, needs a real name and two waypoints): listed in Discover for everyone; safety details stay private. Unpublish any time.
- File → Open / My Routes lists your saved routes and the ones kept in this browser.
Opening a shared route
Change it and save to keep your own copy; the original is not changed.
Discover routes
View or File → Discover routes draws the public routes in the area you are looking at, each in its own colour with its start marked. Click one for its card: length, climb, time at your speeds, difficulty (from effort, or the alpine grade) and likes, with View, Copy to my routes and Like. The bar at the bottom counts what is shown; List opens them as a list you can sort; × stops. Move or zoom the map to look elsewhere. Zoomed far out, it searches 100 km around your route, or asks you to zoom in.
Import & export
GPX
Export for GPS devices and apps; Upload GPX (File menu) turns a track or route into waypoints.
CSV
The legs as a spreadsheet.
GeoJSON
For mapping and GIS tools.
Shortcuts
Shift+click
Add a waypoint with auto-routing flipped for that leg.
Escape
Close the open panel.
Undo / Redo
Top bar buttons, for any change to the route.
Drag
Markers on the map to move them; waypoints in the list to reorder.
Account & privacy
Sign in (Account menu) to save and publish. Account → Cookie settings changes what you allowed in the cookie banner. What is stored and who sees what: Privacy Policy; credits and licences: Acknowledgements.
Need more help?
Ask on the forum, email [email protected], or check the status page.