Released 04-02-2013

Version 2.13.7

• Route Planner
  • Bugfix: Editing cues could update the wrong cue.

Released 03-25-2013

Version 2.13.6

• Trips
  • Re-enabled "select other riders" feature on garmin sync and trip edit. You can now associate other people with your ride. Very rough draft, will release an updated/improved version in near future.
  • Fixed estimated elevation calculation/refetch when editing a trip that has some points with no location (common due to GPS signal issues).
  • Fixed issue with certain TCX files, and us not properly pulling out watts/distance.
  • Now supporting HR data from Mio cycling computer GPX files.
  • Fixed KML file upload issue on oddly formatted KML files.
  • Defaulted "Advanced Turn Notications" to 30meters. Premium only.
  • Private trips are no longer visible to people "guessing" url. Must now share private trips using special "Share Link" in the "Share" tab in the right sidebar when viewing a route/trip.
  • Copy to my account shows link to new copy, no more hunting down the copy.
• Routes
  • Private routes are no longer visible to people "guessing" url. Must now share private trips using special "Share Link" in the "Share" tab in the right sidebar when viewing a route/trip.
  • Copy to my account shows link to new copy, no more hunting down the copy.
• Site Wide
  • Fixed referal system to not error on oddly inputed email addresses.
  • API improvements.
  • Added help page for Edge 810.
  • Enhanced privacy for users through the API.

Released 03-14-2013

Version 2.13.5

• New Basic Feature: Route Management
  • Head over to Profile -> Routes if you have a Basic or Premium account to see the new route management features.
  • Filter based on name, location, distance, and elevation gain.
  • Edit the name of your route in-place by double clicking the name.
  • Bulk-update your routes to private/public.
  • Bulk-delete your routes.
  • A bug with sorting by name is fixed now.

Released 03-08-2013

Version 2.13.4

• Fix-it-Friday
  • Route Planner: Routes saved as trips now show a cuesheet.
  • Route Planner: Fast, multiple clicks on a slow connection no longer result in a "double back".
  • Route Planner: Expand/collapse elevation profile, resize browser, no longer buggy.
  • Route Planner: Undo back to start marker no longer removes start marker.
  • Added support for Mio Cyclo HR/Cadence
  • Uploading TCX files now supports importing cuesheets when present in the file.
  • Fixed bug preventing static map creation in cases where there were points on a trip without a location (no GPS fix).
  • CSV Export: Added end of route to CSV, also added column for elevation at each cue.
  • Fixed footer color, etc (some styles were broken)
  • Quick search of routes on user pages and group pages no longer hide search form if there are 0 results.
  • Route search is much better when using numbers in keyword search, before it would return arbitrary results.
  • Infinite scroll in event and group search fixed.
  • Fixed bug causing elevation profile to not show up on some trips.
  • Fixed bug causing errors (preventing zoom in and metrics from highlighting) when clicking on certain laps/splits/segments/best efforts.
• New Premium Feature
  • Reduce points exported as GPX/TCX to 500 or less. Useful for older devices like 60CSx.

Released 03-05-2013

Version 2.13.3

• New Premium feature: Activity tagging
  • Bulk-assign and bulk-remove tags from any of your activities in Activity Center.
  • Use tags to separate your commutes, training rides, and anything else you can think of.
  • Instantly filter based on your tags, and see your graphs and totals update in real-time.
• New Premium feature: Activity Center advanced filters
  • Slice and dice 10s or 100s of your rides instantly based on keywords, tags, gear, distance, elevation gain, and average speed!
  • See the graphs, totals, and data table update when you change any filter option.
  • With these tools, it is now a breeze to clean up and organize all your rides, and rapidly find any activity among years of history with ease.

Released 03-02-2013

Version 2.13.2

• Fix-it-Friday
  • Activities Calendar: Displaying estimated watts value for rides without a power meter again.
  • Routes: If you experienced routes that didn't get renamed (and kept a date for a name), this is fixed now, and all affected rides have been fixed.
  • Elevation Profile: Requiring a minimum range span of 90 meters for elevation graph. This prevents esentially flat rides from looking like you're crossing the Alps.
  • Histograms: Once again building the "avg grade at speed" and "time at each speed" histograms in the metrics tab. Rebuilt them for all trips that had them missing.
  • Stationary Rides: Improved metrics! No more tables full of 0s for your laps and splits. Hiding "Starts at" for stationary rides without a location.
  • Activity Log: Improved loading of successful rides.
  • TCX Export: In some cases, a bad cuesheet would cause the Garmin unit to stop rendering the route line. This is fixed.

Released 02-26-2013

Version 2.13.1

• Route selection
  • Replaced route dropdown in almost all places with a more powerful dropdown that supports filtering and sorting.

Released 02-18-2013

Version 2.13.0

• Major Changes
  • While much of this rewrite isn't visible to the end user, we spent 100 or so hours reworking the route planner as well as the underlying route persistence logic. This means less subtle bugs while planning and editing routes, as well as more reliable segment matching, user trip totals and other things related to "what happens when you save a route or trip". Basically, if you have been having subtle/intermittent bugs with either the planner or some of the things that are supposed to happen when you log a new activity, they are more than likely fixed.
• Route planner overview
  • Click/drag editing of routes is much more robust
  • Performance improvements in route planner should mean longer routes are more responsive while planning.
  • Removed ability to save a POI only route (must have a route drawn to save).
• Route planner known bugs fixed
  • Various drag/drop combinations could result in disconnected route.
  • Undo/redo/clear map/etc would leave a disconnected route if zoomed in prior.
  • Adding control points / cuesheet entries would introduce short flat lines on elevation profile. Will retroactively fix in coming days.
  • Certain combinations of drag/drop operations would result in broken-looking elevation profile.
  • Adding multiple control points right next to each other would result in broken mouse-over functionality on route and elevation profile.
  • Certain combinations of drag/drop operations would result in inflated distance value being displayed and buggy mouseover behavior. Will retroactively fix in coming days.
  • In rare cases elevation requests would fail and leave the elevation profile with gaps. If you have a route like this, edit it and the gaps will fill in automatically, then just save to make the fix permanent. Will retroactively fix in coming days.
  • Elevation profile in certain cases would get visible spikes, especially on control point boundaries.
  • Deleting route copy with photos (on route or on POI) no longer breaks photos for the route copied from.
• Activities
  • Fixed intermittent segment matching issue, silently re-matched existing uploads for last several months.
  • Fixed intermittent trip totals numbers not updating. Updated all user totals.
  • Fixed issues with certain long trips causing errors on JPG based elevation profile (low impact).

Released 02-15-2013

Version 2.12.3

• Activity Center
  • Bugfix: Allow quick edit on stationary rides.
  • At bottom where it says "Viewing 2013" adjusted it so the year is more accurate (certain cases it would show prior year).
  • Removed category button on left sidebar.
• Elevation profile
  • Add a buffer between bottom of graph and lowest number - affects temperature graph mostly, no longer appears to go off bottom of graph.

Released 02-07-2013

Version 2.12.2

• PDF Printing
  • Fixed bug causing some notes to be truncated incorrectly
  • Changed start/end cue icons to flags
• GPX and TCX exports
  • GPX Route and TCX Course exports now include a cuesheet entry for start and end of route. This way navigating all the way back to the beginning using some devices is easier.
  • TCX Course export now has much improved truncation for garmin devices. Garmin fitness devices only support 10 character names of coursepoints/cuesheet notes, so better truncation means better navigation.
• Routes
  • Uploaded GPX files with bad elevations are now being corrected automatically
  • Foreign language cuesheets are now properly tagging left/right as the type - some languages missed occasional left/right identification due to the way google phrases the directions.
• Trips
  • Trips with negative temperature data now allow you to show the temp data on the graph. Before it was hidden.
• Garmin Write
  • Garmin Write now has an option for writing out a GPX Route if route has a cuesheet available. Helpful for devices like the Garmin Nuvi.

Released 02-01-2013

Version 2.12.1

• Route Planner
  • Removed option to hide control points - it was buggy and didn't make sense. Let us know if you were using it and would like it back.
• Segments
  • When viewing a ride, we used to show moving time on the segment, but the segment leaderboard showed total duration. We are now showing total duration when viewing a ride, so the numbers will match what's on the segment leaderboard.

Released 01-28-2013

Version 2.12.0

• New feature - User and group widgets
  • Accessible from your settings page ("Manage widget" in top right)
  • Include recent activities or summary of activities for week/month/year
  • Embed in your website, blog, etc, with a simple copy-paste of some code.
  • Let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

Released 01-25-2013

Version 2.11.10

• Route Planner
  • Bugfix: Editing a route, clicking undo, then redo, was clearing the entire route.
• Store
  • Shipping to APO addresses is now supported.
• Profile page
  • Viewing more feed items is fixed.

Released 01-06-2013

Version 2.11.9

• Route Planner
  • Made "optimize path for" sticky. If you used cycling mode last time, it will be selected by default next time.
  • Generic is now the default POI type (it was Beach before, because it was the first alphabetically).
• Ride Viewing
  • On trips with power data for premium users, the best efforts table no longer shows moving time and instead shows average watts.
• My Routes
  • Added link to search routes page, configured to only search your routes.

Released 12-19-2012

Version 2.11.8

• Activity Center
  • No longer showing broken map images for stationary rides.
• Store
  • Fixed address verification bug in checkout process.

Released 12-18-2012

Version 2.11.7

• Groups
  • "View All Members" link now functions with a basic member list page. We are planning on improving this page (and others like it) shortly.
  • Group admins can now edit photos for the group uploaded by other admins. Before, only admins could update their own uploaded photos.

Released 12-04-2012

Version 2.11.6

• Activity center / Activity calendar
  • Bug fix: Activity names not showing up in some cases.

Released 10-24-2012

Version 2.11.5

• Route planner
  • New feature: Out-and-back (a button near undo/redo). Generates directions one control point at a time, back to the start.
  • New feature: Reverse (a button near undo/redo). Generates directions for your route reversed, one control point at a time.
• Route search
  • Copied routes default to "private" now. That means they don't clutter search results any more!

Released 10-22-2012

Version 2.11.4

• Route planner
  • Comprehensive undo/redo support. Now you can undo your drag/drop operations! This works with cuesheet entries, POI, control points, drag/drop operations... everything!
  • Drag/drop editing for OSM/RWGPS/OSMCycle maps fixed.
  • POI don't disappear anymore when you reload the route planner to restore an auto-saved route.
  • Ability to add to cuesheet, and add control points, by clicking the elevation profile. If you need to add a custom cue or drag/edit an out-and-back route, it is now possible (we have further improvements planned, but this is a good stopgap for now).
• Units
  • If a non-logged in user views your profile, they will see it in the units (metric/imperial) you have chosen.

Released 10-18-2012

Version 2.11.3

• Segment matching improvements
  • Substantial improvement in matching loop segments (crit segments for example).
  • Improved match selection (start/end points from your ride will match the segment start/end optimally now).
  • First attempt at rejecting stopped time at start/end of segment. Works best on data with a wheel sensor. If you have a segment match that shows you sitting around at the start or end, send us a link! (info@ridewithgps.com)
  • If you have any segment matching issues, please send us details! We are very happy with matching now and are not aware of any shortcomings of our algorithm at this time.

Released 10-17-2012

Version 2.11.2

• Segment revisions beta-release
  • Segments for groups! Create a segment and assign it to your group, and it will only match against group members. (Premium only)
  • Segments for events! Event routes act as segments and have leaderboards - segments can be added to events with leaderboards. RWGPS users who upload data from your event will automatically be invited to confirm their participation. Comprehensive featureset here, available to select beta users only for now. Contact us if you're interested.
• Events beta-release
  • Ability to set both starts on and ends on dates for an event.
  • Ability to set dates for the specific routes of an event to support stage races. (beta only)
  • Support for handling registrations and collecting payment on Ride with GPS. (beta only). Contact us if you're interested.

Released 10-08-2012

Version 2.11.1

• Segments
  • Revised heuristics for automatically flagging segments. Please report if you notice something that should be removed from a leaderboard, or if one of your legitimate rides got removed!

Released 09-27-2012

Version 2.11.0

• Segment revisions pre-release
  • Segment search page released: Search segments
  • New premium feature: Ability to save private segments. When saving your segment, there is a dropdown where you can select "individual" and the segment will only match on your personal rides.
  • Automatically rejection of trips that appear faster than an unassisted bicycle ride from segment matching. This has removed the vast majority of flagged segment matches. Any segment matches flagged will be manually inspected and used to improve this algorithm moving forward.
  • Layout selection dropdown (mouseover the layout icon in the top/middle when viewing a route or trip).
  • Moved segments, annotations, laps/splits, and best efforts to the left sidebar. Use the metrics tab on the right, and click on things on the left to see the metrics easily.
  • After you zoom in, click "select segment" below the elevation profile. No need to click "select segment" first anymore.
  • Changed behavior of "re-center" when defining a segment to zoom in on the elevation profile as well as the map.
  • Fixed a handful of minor bugs in the elevation profile dealing with zooming and identifying sections when mousing over laps/segments/etc.
  • Removed ignored segments from profile tab.
  • Added "Created segments" to profile tab, showing you segments you have created.
  • Removed column labels from segments, laps/splits, best efforts, to make better use of vertical space.
  • Fixed scrolling bugs with sidebars (in some cases you couldn't scroll to the bottom of the right sidebar).

Released 09-18-2012

Version 2.10.1

• Routes
  • Deleting a route which has trips under it no longer deletes the individual trips. They will be on your profile, with the name being the departed at date.

Released 09-07-2012

Version 2.10.0

• Store launch
  • Launched our store, check it out here: Ride with GPS Store
  • Pre-order your Ride with GPS Jersey
  • Purchase Ride with GPS t-shirts and water bottles
  • Purchase OSM Maps ready for your Garmin unit

Released 08-29-2012

Version 2.9.14

• Trips
  • Fixed speed dropouts from bad data from Edge 500/800, where once per second recording caused duplicate time stamps.
  • Trips recorded with no route or log file now properly increment your trip totals (duration, distance and count).
• Misc.
  • Fixed last logged in at bug - facebook users weren't setting the last logged in at date when they logged into the site.

Released 08-03-2012

Version 2.9.13

• Routes/Trips
  • Trips can now be exported as a TCX History, which is useful for transferring file to another service. Note: export does not currently preserve lap information.
  • Route planning using ESRI Topo maps now does a better job at generating a cuesheet.

Released 08-02-2012

Version 2.9.12

• Route Exports
  • GPX Track timestamps are now UTC

Released 08-01-2012

Version 2.9.11

• Route planner
  • Switching between map overlays no longer reverts to driving mode, it stays on the mode you were using.
  • Drag/drop editing respects whatever settings you have selected on the right sidebar now. This means you can edit routes built from GPS data and use follow roads mode, cycling routing, etc.
• Routes/Trips
  • Added power support for files uploaded by TrainerRoad and CompuTrainer devices.
  • Added support for using speed values from TCX uploads (as opposed to us calculating speed at each point)
  • Made "See Other Activities" on trip page respect private trips
  • Changed the default speed we consider as stopped to 3mph, to match Garmin units. Should help with differing moving/stopped time values.
  • Fixed bug where stopped time wasn't being calculated when using speed from wheel sensor. Now, graph goes to 0 for those stopped times.
  • Fixed sorting by name when viewing your activity log.
• Garmin Sync
  • Fixed issues with handheld GPS units not transferring cadence/heartrate values during sync
  • Fixed issues with some handhelds re-syncing all stored activities on the handheld during every sync.
• Segments
  • Fixed bug on some segment ranking overviews on the "Segments" tab on profile pages.

Released 07-31-2012

Version 2.9.10

• Routes/Trips
  • Added ability to edit names and descriptions in-place. Just click on them to edit!

Released 07-27-2012

Version 2.9.9

• Metrics
  • Changed heuristic to deal with bad speed values to be less aggressive. If you've noticed broken speed graphs on some trips, this should fix that issue.
  • Backed off smoothing of speed a bit, this should help make max speed more accurate.

Released 07-23-2012

Version 2.9.8

• Trips
  • Calories now calculated for trips with no heartrate data.
  • Trip editing now tells you error messages on bad form input (name too long, non-numerical cadence etc).
  • Fixed certain errors on static elevation profile image creation.
  • Fixed error with certain bad data on TCX generation.
  • Fixed missing track on a parent route of multiple activities.
  • Made static map thumbnail image and geocoding more robust (less missing data)

Released 07-16-2012

Version 2.9.7

• Trips
  • Ability to log a trip without specifying a route.

Released 07-13-2012

Version 2.9.6

• Full screen support
  • Added full screen mode, only supported in Chrome and Firefox for now.
  • You can use full screen on the following pages: route planner, route/trip views, segments view, events view, activity center.
  • Use it by clicking this icon when you see it in the top right of the page:
  • Want to play with it but are currently on Internet Explorer or Safari? Download Chrome here: Download Google Chrome browser

Released 07-12-2012

Version 2.9.5

• Route planner
  • Fixed bug that caused elevation graph to look crazy, and to get messed up mileage when editing routes. Let us know if you run into any route planning bugs this was a big one and we're not aware of any outstanding issues at this time.
• Route search
  • Added checkbox "search only my routes". Now it is easier to quickly search for your own routes.
• Photos
  • Made uploaded images auto-orient when possible.
  • Fixed issue where rotating image caused thumbnails to drop in quality

Released 07-10-2012

Version 2.9.4

• Trip display
  • If you are premium, we're now showing your premium metrics to anyone that looks at your ride.
• Route planner
  • Added "jump to home" link to easily start your route from your home location.

Released 07-09-2012

Version 2.9.3

• Best Efforts
  • Switched to showing avg watts including 0s so best efforts have a time-weighted average.

Released 06-26-2012

Version 2.9.2

• Help/Support
  • Adoped Zendesk for user forums, help system, and support. Check it out here! Ride with GPS Support

Released 06-21-2012

Version 2.9.1

• Events
  • Ordering routes alphabetically now. We'll add the ability to reorder them any way you please soon.
• Bugs
  • Fixed: Can't edit routes belonging to event/group
  • Fixed: When editing an event/group route, the route owner isn't selected correctly.

Released 06-21-2012

Version 2.9.0

• New feature: Events
  • Support for creating events owned by a user, or by a group. An event can have multiple routes, tabs with custom details, and more.
• Misc
  • Updated press page. If you did a review for us and don't see it listed there, just email us a link at info@ridewithgps.com and we'll get it added!
• Bugs
  • Fixed bug that showed more pages than were available (and they would show "Data error") when viewing your routes via Profile - Routes.

Released 06-14-2012

Version 2.8.10

• Help / Feedback
  • Released new help system. Just hit 'help/feedback' in the top nav to access it.

Released 06-12-2012

Version 2.8.9

• Metrics
  • Showing average with 0s for avg. watts now, in addition to average without 0s that was previously shown by itself.
• Bugs
  • Fixed forgot password bug in Firefox.

Released 05-25-2012

Version 2.8.8

• Stationary rides
  • Fixed average/min/max metrics for stationary rides without a wheel sensor.
• Metrics graph
  • When hovering over graph, the details will switch to the left side of the cursor when you run out of space.

Released 05-23-2012

Version 2.8.7

• Gear maintenance
  • Allow backdating distance adjustments.

Released 05-22-2012

Version 2.8.6

• My routes / activities
  • Added link to jump between routes and activities pages.

Released 05-22-2012

Version 2.8.5

• Segments
  • When there are multiple matches on a segment on a trip, showing them in-order now.

Released 05-21-2012

Version 2.8.4

• Photos
  • Showing photo thumbs on the overview tab on trips/routes now.
  • The photo popup lets you navigate between photos instead of just showing 1.
  • You can edit captions in place, in the photo popup.

Released 05-20-2012

Version 2.8.3

• Metrics
  • Dramatic improvement to grade calculations.
  • Added ability to put your mouse cursor over any min/max number (grade/hr/cad/speed/watts) in the metrics tab, and have it highlight the corresponding point on the map and graph (the metrics you can hover over are italicized).
  • Color-coded metrics to match the graph - easier to visually scan the metrics table now.
  • If you zoom in on a hill, you will now see the UCI climb category and the FIETS index listed under avg. grade in the metrics tab.
  • Added max watts if you have power data.

Released 05-14-2012

Version 2.8.2

• Segments
  • Added ability to delete or edit the name of segments you have created. Just view the segment and you'll see the options under the title.
  • Some segments were displaying a 404 error. This is fixed now.
• Routes
  • Fixed "data error" when going to later pages when viewing routes.

Released 05-11-2012

Version 2.8.1

• Metrics
  • Computed VAM, ascent time, and descent time, all visible on the metrics tab when viewing a ride.
  • Added climb categorization and FIETS-index - will start using them in more places.
• Segments
  • Displaying VAM when you check off segment efforts and toggle details.
  • Showing the climb category and FIETS-index in the top left if the segment is a climb.
  • The "performed at" time is now the time that you actually began the segment (it was the time you started your ride before). This means multiple efforts in a single ride will show different times now.
  • Another great improvement in segment matching, resulting in more matches, and fixed a bug that resulted in matching an extended start in rare cases.
  • Fixed bug preventing display of segments with comments.
  • Added average grade if segment is a climb.
  • Note: For the "performed at" fix, and segment matching improvements - we are rematching all segments over the next few days so these improvements won't appear everywhere until early next week.
• Bugs
  • Fixed forgot password function.
  • Removed trips listed in "My Routes" page.

Released 05-10-2012

Version 2.8.0

• Metrics Calculations
  • Background: Anytime you look at any route/ride data, our metrics calculations are used for just about everything. Went through this code top to bottom and made significant changes.
  • Fixed a number of bugs, the most visible one being max speed numbers being way too high on some trips.
  • Improved performance.
  • Added support for interpolation everywhere (splits will be exactly the right distance/time, segment racing splits are more accurate).
  • The changes will enable very cool improvements that we'll be releasing soon.

Released 04-28-2012

Version 2.7.11

• Premium Printing
  • Optional thumbs for each section of cuesheet notes in the PDF cuesheet. Basic implementation, improvements to come. Look at bottom of PDF printing options to see the "Experimental" section.
• GPX Exports
  • Added optional support for exporting cues and POI as waypoints in GPX files. Added this in premium Garmin Write as well.

Released 04-26-2012

Version 2.7.10

• Bugs
  • Fixed broken garmin sync from previous bugfix

Released 04-26-2012

Version 2.7.9

• Bugs
  • Garmin sync: Fixed issue with associating a route with a ride and having the name not show up. Fixing retroactively as well so if you experienced this it will be resolved.
  • Stationary trips: Fixed edge case where it was trying to graph by distance (when total distance was 0)

Released 04-24-2012

Version 2.7.8

• Segment matching
  • Made dramatic improvements in segment matching, especially on loop segments. All segments will be reprocessed in the next day or so.
• Route search
  • Fixed a few issues that prevents especially long routes from showing up in search, and some routes from showing up when searching for a user's routes.

Released 04-19-2012

Version 2.7.7

• Elevation data
  • Updated our elevation algorithms to be more accurate. More details coming in a blog post tomorrow.
• Route PDFs
  • Uses name of route for filename now.
• Bugs
  • Print map link would link to thumbnail in certain cases - linking to full map now.
  • Now you can zoom in on laps/segments/annotations/best efforts when graphs are expanded (thanks Andy).

Released 04-17-2012

Version 2.7.6

• Profile
  • Total time on bike now uses moving time instead of total duration, your numbers will be lower now!
• Bugs
  • Saving new routes for a group allows POI now.
  • Activity center bulk updates are faster now and don't time out.

Released 04-11-2012

Version 2.7.5

• New front page
  • Redesigned the front page. Hope you like it!

Released 04-09-2012

Version 2.7.4

• Groups
  • Edit your group and set a location. The location will appear in the search results as well as the group page.
• Gear maintenance
  • Added "Distance since" to show the number of miles/km since you performed each item of maintenance.

Released 04-03-2012

Version 2.7.3

• Segments/Annotations
  • Switched places of create annotation / segment. Focus is on creating segment now.
  • Added short help page on segment creation / annotations. Check it out here.
  • Select-segment mode is sticky now, so you can make multiple segments/annotations in a row without continually re-selecting it.

Released 04-02-2012

Version 2.7.2

• Bugs
  • Garmin sync, trips weren't displaying on right side.
  • Fixed issues with avg HR not calculating correctly in some cases.
  • Editing trips: fixed several edge-case bugs that happened when you did certain combinations of assigning trips to routes, renaming trips to a blank name, etc.

Released 03-29-2012

Version 2.7.1

• Route search
  • Added ability to use route search for a user's routes. Just click "Search all xx routes" above the route list on any profile.
• Viewing trips
  • Added trip names into "see other activities" to more easily identify what you're looking for.
• Bugs
  • Fixed bug: can't click on anything in footer.

Released 03-28-2012

Version 2.7.0

• Updated design
  • New logo! Woohoo!
  • Using a lighter background color on all pages now. The front page redesign is up next.
• New feature: Groups
  • Search -> Groups. From there you can look for a group, or create one.
  • Associate routes with groups, now you can get all your group routes on one page for easy sharing.
  • Upload group photos, perfect to get your logo displaying on the group page.
  • Another iteration on this featureset is coming soon, so please let us know if you want to see anything specific! Just click the "feedback" link up top or email us directly: info@ridewithgps.com

Released 03-27-2012

Version 2.6.6

• Viewing trips
  • Added "see other rides" which shows you rides happening before/after the one you're looking at. Easy way to jump between rides.

Released 03-23-2012

Version 2.6.5

• Help Page Improvements
  • Garmin Edge 305 Help
  • Garmin Edge 705 Help
  • Garmin Edge 500 Help
  • Garmin Edge 800 Help
  • Garmin Forerunner 610 Help

Released 03-22-2012

Version 2.6.4

• Activity Center
  • Added ability to see moving time in the graph or table.

Released 03-21-2012

Version 2.6.3

• Routes and Trips
  • FIxed elevation calculation issues - we are now consistently within 5% of what Garmin Connnect reports for same uploaded activity, and for routes mapped for any given activity, we are generally well within 10%. This is a big improvement!

Released 03-20-2012

Version 2.6.2

• Garmin Sync
  • Fixed a bug that prevented using Garmin Sync on certain activities.
• Elevation calculations
  • We have been working through some changes in our elevations algorithm. We have settled on the data you see now. Let us know if you have any feedback on this!
• Segments
  • Only delivering notifications for ranking updates in the top 15 slots.
  • Added ability to flag hazardous segments. Just click "enable flagging" when viewing a segment. Please ride safely! Let us know if you have feedback on this, we have no interest in encouraging unsafe riding.
• Metrics
  • Computing moving time more accurately. Let us know if you have feedback on this.

Released 03-16-2012

Version 2.6.1

• Activity Center
  • Changed from a weeks-based summation of trips/distances to the standard approach of just including what's in the month / year. January now has only January trips, 2012 only has 2012 trips.
• Garmin Sync
  • Garmin Sync now properly supports indoor rides on Edge 305/705 devices. It's still a bit rough (no message indicating it's an indoor ride), but it works!

Released 03-15-2012

Version 2.6.0

• Premium accounts
  • New feature: Segment annotations. Select a segment on your trips or routes (as if you're creating a segment) and you will have the option to leave a comment on a section of your route/ride.

Released 03-14-2012

Version 2.5.9

• Activity Center
  • Fixed issue with blank gear in activity center
• Segments
  • Updated notification email to an HTML template. Will migrate rest of notification templates over soon

Released 03-12-2012

Version 2.5.8

• Segments
  • Added ability to select all efforts.
  • When creating a segment, distance/ele updates as you resize it.
• Route planner
  • Preventing saving until all images are done uploading - making things less confusing.

Released 03-11-2012

Version 2.5.7

• Routes/Trips
  • FIT files from FR60 devices now "supported" - data isn't properly displayed for indoor workouts without distance, but no longer fail to process.
  • TCX files no longer erroneously split on laps
• Premium Features
  • PDF generation no longer shortend "light" to "L"

Released 03-10-2012

Version 2.5.6

• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed distance calculation bug on edit route

Released 03-09-2012

Version 2.5.5

• Segments
  • Added custom split option when comparing efforts, you can split by any distance now.
  • Showing rank in the segments table when viewing a ride now.
  • Displaying time the ride started on each effort. Will replace with time the actual effort started shortly.
• Activity center
  • Descriptions on rides are now formatted correctly.
• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed formatting of descriptions.
• Misc
  • Fixed issue with trips occasionally double-posting to Facebook

Released 03-06-2012

Version 2.5.4

• Segments
  • Fixed bug with remembered segments not showing up, if you had nothing else remembered.
  • Added thumbnail image of segment to remembered tab, and to Facebook shares.
  • Added segments tab to profile so you can see all the segments you are matched on.
  • Fixed bug with email notifications having subjects that don't display the right info.
  • If you have private trips that would match a segment, there is now a message on the trip page and the segment page so you can set them to be public if you'd like.

Released 03-05-2012

Version 2.5.3

• Segments
  • Added Facebook like button that will share the segment with a map thumbnail.
  • Fixed a bug with toggling details.
  • Displaying segment matches on routes now as well.
  • Removed all flagged efforts that were not done on a bike.
  • Added HR (bpm) and power (watts) to effort comparisons.
  • Added video on comparing efforts and racing.
  • Added screenshot explaining effort comparison and racing in detail.

Released 03-03-2012

Version 2.5.2

• Segments
  • Racing! You can now race individual segment rankings against one another.
  • Ranking analysis means you can now understand how one ranking compares to another. By analyzing either 1/4, 1/3 and custom splits, you can see exactly where along a segment your effort was expended in comparison to others.
• File uploading
  • Fixed a bug where bad characters in a filename caused an error.
  • Fixed a bug where gpx files weren't able to be uploaded via the bulk uploading interface.
• Routes
  • Fixed PDF printing to accomodate longer routes without wrapping distance column in cuesheet.
• Conversations and Comments
  • Fixed encoding errors, which caused some email replies to comment and message notifications to error without saving the comment or message.

Released 02-28-2012

Version 2.5.1

• Segments
  • We have been fine tuning matching algorithms for the last couple of days. It's now working *much* better, and we have rematched all existing segments.
  • Improved segment help considerably, including videos: Segments Explained

Released 02-25-2012

Version 2.5.0

• Segments
  • First release of segments. See details here: Segments Explained

Released 02-09-2012

Version 2.4.5

• Trips
  • Fixed issues where certain TCX files were split into multiple activities when they contained laps.
  • Uploads with bad elevation points no longer have all elevations refetched - now only the bad elevation points are corrected with our datasets.
  • Normalized Power is now available as a metric for those with power meters.
  • Average Power is now only being calculated for values >= 10 watts - this solves some erroneously low averages and makes values more consistent with other analysis software.
• Routes
  • Fixed advanced turn notifications for premium users - occasionally, bad data caused an error.

Released 02-05-2012

Version 2.4.4

• Preferences
  • Added option to specify where "Home" takes you in your settings.
• Activity Center
  • Preferred start of week is respected in your activity center calendar now.

Released 01-25-12

Version 2.4.3

• Activity Center
  • Fixed several issues with displaying / saving basic activities. (bugfix)
• Routes/Trips
  • Non-PDF print map works again. (bugfix)
• Profile
  • Clicking other tabs in Firefox works again. (bugfix)
  • Fixed bug with remembered items causing a profile to 404 in a rare case. (bugfix)
• Elevation profile
  • If some of the elevation goes missing or there is a spike while drawing a route, we will automatically refetch it after you save.
  • 30/60 second moving averages for watts is accurate now, for an uncommon edge case.
• General
  • Added links throughout site to show off some features from premium accounts. Trying to inform without being intrusive - let us know if you have any opinion on any of this.

Released 01-18-12

Version 2.4.2

• Elevation/other Graphs
  • Fixed a bug that made switching to a time-based x-axis not work on some trips.
  • For stationary trips, fixed an issue that prevented distance from working as an x-axis for some files.
• Trips
  • Fixed bug that deleted photos if you edited a trip.

Released 01-10-12

Version 2.4.1

• Premium Accounts
  • Advanced turn warnings now available on TCX exports.
• Routes/Trips
  • KML uploads fixed for some users who ran into errors

Released 01-07-12

Version 2.4.0

• New features
  • Stationary rides supported. Displays graphs instead of a map when viewed. (premium)
  • Ability to expand graphs and hide map on all routes/trips.
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed broken calendar navigation in Firefox.
  • Fixed duplicate header error in Chrome 16.

Released 01-05-12

Version 2.3.5

• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed bug causing excessive elevation gain/loss figures when uploaded file has bad elevation data.
• Premium Accounts
  • Fixed bug when printing a cuesheet PDF with cues containing no text (no email sent).

Released 01-02-12

Version 2.3.4

• Sitewide
  • Actions involving lightbox effects now no longer error when the lightbox closes (sending messages, requesting friendships).
• Premium Accounts
  • Gear maintenance now works again, sorry for the temporary bug.
• Routes/Trips
  • Embedded maps now properly function again, sorry for the temporary bug
  • Fixed intermittent bug when loading some routes, causing no route or navigation arrows to appear

Released 01-02-12

Version 2.3.3

• Premium Printing
  • Fixed error when using small font size for cuesheet.
• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed geocoding issues - now using mapquest's OpenStreetMap server. Will switch to native RWGPS geocoding server when it is fully up and running (1 month to import+index all data).
• Site Wide
  • Many small bugs fixed (errors with odd/uncommon uses).

Released 12-27-11

Version 2.3.2

• Trips
  • If you have power data, you will see a table of your 30 and 60 second best efforts. Click on them to zoom in! (premium)
• Elevation profile
  • Fixed a bug with hovering over the graph while playing back a ride.
  • When graphing a moving average of power, mousing over shows the correct value now.
• Misc.
  • Fixed a display issue when accepting a friend request.
  • Brought back a link to export an image of the elevation profile.

Released 12-19-11

Version 2.3.1

• Elevation profile / Metrics
  • Added ability to graph 30s and 60s moving averages if you have power data.
  • Now displaying more precise distances when hovering over.
  • Grade is a different color to allow you to distinguish from speed/power.
  • Zooming in on laps/splits zooms in on the elevation profile as well now.
  • When zooming in, pace/moving pace/average watts update in the metrics tab.
• Sitewide
  • Fixed error on certain routes and trips with bad data
  • Fixed error when inviting multiple friends via email.

Released 12-14-11

Version 2.3.0

• New: Elevation profile
  • Completely rewrote the elevation profile.
  • No longer uses Flash, should work on iPads and mobile devices.
  • Graph by time (not just distance anymore!).
  • Graph grade now, and temperature (from Garmin 500/800 devices).
  • Fixed numerous bugs and performance issues - speed data is more accurate now.
  • Significantly better performance in every browser except IE8 (but does work just fine).
  • Trip playback is smoother now.
  • Very exciting for us: the code is much better. Several forthcoming features will lean heavily on this work (e.g. trip editing, section/point annotation).
• GPX/TCX processing bugs
  • Fixed several issues we had in processing certain types of GPX/TCX files.
• Route planning / editing
  • Ability to add/remove photos from the save dialog when planning/editing a route.

Released 12-03-11

Version 2.2.3

• Gear
  • Can now edit and add photos to gear without errors.

Version 2.2.4

• User Search
• Fixed friend request/message user functions for results returned by search.

Released 12-03-11

Version 2.2.3

• Gear
  • Can now edit and add photos to gear without errors.
• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed errors on some trips with odd time values
  • RWGPS map type now available in the map type selection dropdown
• Premium
  • Improved layout of premium print page
  • Premium print now defaults to our new RWGPS style maps
  • Coordinate grid lines are now an option on PDF map print
• Sitewide
  • Fixed various friend request issues
  • Fixed manage friends page

Released 11-14-11

Version 2.2.2

• Trips
  • Added pace/moving pace to metrics.
  • Using more accurate distance provided by GPS unit when available.

Released 11-07-11

Version 2.2.1

• Site Wide
  • Improved 404 and 500 error pages - no longer static pages.
• Premium/Basic Accounts
  • Fixed errors when viewing a trip with bad speed data
  • Fixed errors when viewing a trip with bad HR data
  • Fixed premium printing issue for trips
• Trips
  • Fixed bad speed data for all recent Garmin units. Let us know if you experience any more issues with speed data.

Released 11-03-11

Version 2.2.0

• Premium/Basic Accounts
  • New feature: gear maintenance log.
  • Added heart rate and power data to laps/splits table.
• Route planning
  • Ability to jump directly to lat/lng.
  • Now displaying a marker when you jump to a location. Click on the marker and you can add that point to your route.

Released 10-25-11

Version 2.1.8

• Premium Accounts
  • Premium Printing now shows distance markers
  • You can now sync your health data from wireless scales (Tanita BC-1000 fully tested) and have the entries log in your activity center. Just visit Garmin Sync like normal, and notice the health information box above the map.
• File Uploads
  • Restricted per-upload limit of 25 routes. This will keep the service from getting backed up when a user uploads 1000+ routes as has happened in the past.
  • Restricted photo upload tool to only show .jpg, .gif, .png and .tif files

Released 10-12-11

Version 2.1.7

• Profile Settings
  • Enhanced error messages when editing your profile. Saving now redirects you back to profile editing.
• Routes
  • Fixed cuesheet printing "missing translation" bugs

Released 10-04-11

Version 2.1.6

• Routes
  • Added pageview counter to metrics section of routes. Will slowly add these to other areas of the site (trips, user profiles etc).
• Trips
  • Time at each speed histogram no longer displays long times at 0 mph.
  • Histograms work in metric and imperial now.
• Route planner
  • Added ability to delete a control point. Click "add control point" and click on any existing control points to remove them. We'll add a less counter-intuitive method soon.
• Gear
  • Fixed bug preventing photos from uploading.
• Premium features
  • Added "time at each or greater than each speed" histogram to trips.

Released 09-21-11

Version 2.1.5

• Routes and Trips
  • Premium users now have access to Garmin Write - send a GPX Track to your Garmin device without exporting it and hassling with the file. Works on most Garmin units. We will add TCX files as an option soon, which will allow more units and functionality.

Released 09-21-11

Version 2.1.4

• Trips
  • We now support laps for premium users! Currently this only works for uploaded TCX and FIT files, and NOT for Garmin Sync. We will add Garmin Sync support ASAP.

Released 09-19-11

Version 2.1.3

• Garmin Sync
  • Requiring latest Garmin Communicator
  • Fixed regression where power wasnt transferring from Edge 500/800 models.
  • Temporarily removed the preview map for Edge 500/800 until we work around data loss.
• Routes/Trips
  • Exploratory Search fixed for users with no default location present.
  • Speed averages when viewing a map should be more accurate. Was using a summation based average from point to point - instead moved it to an absolute average using moving time and distance.

Released 08-22-11

Version 2.1.2

• Routes and trips
  • Now you can copy your own routes and trips. Copying your trip will strip time and other data, which will let you edit the track.
• Conversations
  • Fixed a bug that kept deleted conversations in your inbox - deleting conversations works again.

Released 08-21-11

Version 2.1.1

• Route planner
  • Avoid highways works as expected now.
  • Properly remembering preferences on whether options are expanded or not and which are selected.
• Exploratory search
  • Fixed a bug that caused the scrollbar to not work as expected in some cases.
  • View no longer limited to metric units.

Released 08-20-11

Version 2.1.0

• Route planner
  • Added ability to store a URL with a route.
  • Added support for adding a collection of POIs without drawing a route.
• Route search
  • Switched to new search backend for routes, which allows us to sort/filter on relevance, which is now in the sorting options as default and labeled Quality. Let us know if you are unsatisfied with route search results as we are going to need to tune our relevance score.
  • Changed the layout to include some images if available.
  • Removed ability to preview route on a map - this is being done differently and will return.
  • Removed ability to search on pavement type and end location - these options will come back soon.
• Exploratory search
  • Displaying more data about routes / POIs in list and on click
  • Improved clustering when zoomed far out
  • Various bug fixes and minor improvements

Released 08-15-11

Version 2.0.21

• Route planner
  • Cleaned up layout of right side controls, and fixed some bugs with control points/custom cues/pois.
• Note: we are currently in Norway working on a variety of items, some of which will be released and discussed here after we get back on the 24th of Aug. During this time we're doing our best to keep up with feedback but are a bit backed up at the moment - we're sorry for any delay in response.

Released 08-02-11

Version 2.0.20

• Sitewide
  • Fixed issue for a few users experiencing an error message on each page load about "preloader image cannot be loaded".
• Routes
  • Fixed updating of certain routes in rare cases - would error out on save due to a javascript error.
• Routes/Trips
  • KML exports now have a red line color so they are actually visible in google earth

Released 07-28-11

Version 2.0.19

• Route search
  • You can now find recorded trips in the route search, as long as they have a name.
• Trips
  • Average and minimum cadence values no longer count anything lower than 10 rpm.
• Profile
  • In "Maps" tab, added linke to routes page if there are too many routes to display.
  • In "Activity Log" and "Activity Summary" tabs added links to view all activities in bottom right.

Released 07-27-11

Version 2.0.18

• Route planner
  • Fixed bug preventing names/URLs of POIs from being saved.

Released 07-26-11

Version 2.0.17

• Profile
  • Displaying up to 8 gear instead of 6.
• Route planner
  • POI dropdown displays icons now.

Released 07-25-11

Version 2.0.16

• Trips
  • Fixed elevation profile on 1 second trips imported from other applications.
  • Playback is significantly smoother now.
• Route planner
  • Form will no longer extend off screen if you have a smaller screen and select to record as a trip.

Released 07-24-11

Version 2.0.15

• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed elevation fetching/correction when uploading a file with bad elevations

Released 07-24-11

Version 2.0.14

• Route Planner
  • Fixed bug with drag/drop preventing elevation fetching for long sections of route

Released 07-22-11

Version 2.0.13

• Trips
  • Editing trip, map respects unit preference now.
  • Fixed confusing language around updating bad elevations.
• Route Planner
  • Added ability to drag the start marker to adjust start of route.
  • Displaying error message now if unable to route - just switch off cycling mode if outside the US.
  • Fixed error with drag/drop edit in IE.
  • Distance markers display updates during undo/redo operations.
  • Made route line semi-transparent so you can see street names a bit better through it.
  • On edit, metrics populate on load now (before they wouldn't populate until an edit to the route was made).

Released 07-21-11

Version 2.0.12

• Remembered
  • Remembered routes/trips display maps now
• Routes/Trips
  • Added ability to copy a trip to your account. It will strip time/hr/cad/watts, and keep position/elevation data.
  • Routes dropdown now includes trips where you set a name.

Released 07-20-11

Version 2.0.11

• Bug fixes
  • After clearing map, planning a route drew a line back to the prior click.

Released 07-19-11

Version 2.0.10

• Bug fixes
  • Copying route to your account works on routes that contain POIs now and displays confirmation message.
  • Editing a POI and mousing over another POI no longer prevents saving the POI being edited.
  • Fixed a bug in route planner causing elevations to not be fetched under certain conditions.
  • Resized POI/coursepoint info window to prevent a horizontal scrollbar.

Released 07-18-11

Version 2.0.9

• Routes / Trips
  • BIG performance improvements when viewing a trip. IE users will notice this more than others (since IE is so slow!)
  • No longer using points of interests from uploaded files - way too many junk POI being entered

Released 07-15-11

Version 2.0.8

• Activity Log
  • Fixed display of activity log - some users received an error when viewing theirs.
  • Fixed formatting issue in activity log
• Routes / Trips
  • Fixed BIG performance problem for users with slow browsers. IE7/8 users should no longer get "slow script" errors when viewing maps or route/activity lists.
  • Fixed flashing "selected" metrics on load
  • Fixed metrics being overwritten with bad values when viewing trips created from a drawn route
  • Blurred the difference between a Trip and a Route a little more - if you upload a trip and create a new route with it, we will hide the route except in search results.
  • If viewing a trip created from mapping a route and inputting trip data, you can now see the cuesheet
  • Editing a route now updates the route distance and rebuilds the map images if the track was modified
  • Fixed GPX Track export of multi-segment routes - should now work with all Garmin units again.
  • Restored SRTM elevation dataset as higher priority than new ASTER data - it was too inaccurate.

Released 07-14-11

Version 2.0.7

• Routes / Trips
  • Fixed delete route issue.

Released 07-10-11

Version 2.0.6

• Sitewide
  • Fixed forgot password screen saying "Something went wrong". Emails were sent fine, just the response was confused.
• Routes
  • Assigned latitude and longitude to new routes (bug kept the values from saving, from our big v2.0 deploy last week). Now they show up in search.

Released 07-08-11

Version 2.0.5

• Route planning/editing
  • Bug fix: General bugginess of drag/drop control points and in between control points fixed. Please report if you run into any issues here - info@ridewithgps.com or feedback button up top
  • Bug fix: Adding a cuesheet point resulted in no elevation for that point.
  • Bug fix: Couldn't delete a custom cuesheet entry when editing a route.
  • We'll remember your last used directions mode from now on. If you changed from "driving" to "cycling", it will default to "cycling" next time.

Released 07-07-11

Version 2.0.4

• Trip processing
  • Bug fix: HR zones and speed histograms are generating again. All recent trips have been reprocessed so there should be no more missing zones/speed histograms.

Released 07-05-11

Version 2.0.3

• Sitewide
  • Fixed (increased) performance of image serving
• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed elevation profile image generation. It was broke after the move to new javascript based maps
  • Fixed issue with elevation refetching - had wrong translation key, which was causing errors. Reran all errored jobs.
  • Fixed bug preventing control points from displaying if you haven't checked the box manually before. Note: if you want to disable control points (the white circles on the route), uncheck the option under options when planning a route).
  • Language for cue sheet while planning a route will now default to your browser settings.
  • When making a selection on the elevation graph, the highlighted metrics are now updating properly.

Released 07-04-11

Version 2.0.2

• Routes/Trips
  • Fixed upload issue causing certain types of uploads to error. I reprocessed all backed up uploads, things should be working smoothly now.

Released 07-03-11

Version 2.0.1

• Sitewide
  • Cleaned up the Ride With GPS blog finally. Styling is still simplistic, but it's a big improvement over the old stop-gap we had in place. With the new blog platform, we will have an easier time keeping the blog up to date. Check back regularly for site updates, plans and other information about our website and business.
  • Added a basic help page for Garmin Communicator (Garmin Sync) issues: help with Garmin Communicator
  • Brought back text on forgot password prompt
• Routes
  • Fixed coursepoint deletion bug
  • Re-added ability to trace back along your route by clicking the blue ball that follows the mouse along the route.
  • Re-added ability to click on start marker to finish route at start
  • Using a different icon for the control points (big white square -> smaller white circle)
  • Added option to remove control points entirely: "Show Control Point Icons" under options in route planning (your preference will be remembered).
  • Added way to cancel (and see state of) adding a POI
  • Fixed elevation updating task
  • Fixed upload processing issues with encodings, for our international users/friends
  • Fixed formatting issue with descriptions and newlines
  • Fixed average/max grade not showing up
  • Added "re-center map" option when viewing a route
  • Made exploratory map based search accessible without an account
  • Removed reloading auto-saved routes on map edit (it was confusing when two maps loaded up)
  • Fixed export issue with TCX files on routes with cuesheets
  • Made driving the default mode - Cycling mode is only available in the US, which I didn't realize. This confused alot of people when it refused to map!
  • Added an error when no routes found while mapping.
• Trips
  • Fixed some errors in the upload processor, reprocessed the stuck/errored trips.
  • Fixed issue where bad time values in a trip caused huge total_trip_duration numbers, which would error anytime a new trip was uploaded (value too big for the mysql column). Fixed historical profiles/trips with the issue, and put several checks in place to keep it from happening again.

Released 06-30-11

Version 2.0

• Sitewide
  • We touched just about every single file on the site in an effort to internationalize RWGPS. We will soon be releasing regional (international style dates for example) options, and following that, some actual translations!
  • Seriously, we touched every aspect of the site, too much to actually list!
• Trips
  • All maps related to trips have been switched to javascript. Only flash left is the elevation profile.
  • All file processing has been rewritten from ground up, it should be more reliable now.
  • Fixed average speed calculations - were getting set to wrong units on editing a trip.
  • Fixed power and calorie calculations to use moving time and not total duration
• Routes
  • All maps related to routes have been rewritten in javascript. Your welcome iPad users (and jump in a lake Steve Jobs).
  • New map options available while planning/viewing (open street map, USGS topos, ArcGIS topos, OSM cycle maps).
  • Exploratory search now available from the search menu
  • POI's are expanded and more functional than before

Released 04-25-11

Version 1.2.9

• File Processing
  • Fixed several bugs with file processing that caused "Could not find user with that ID" amongst others.
• Trips
  • Changing moving time will now cause average speed to be recalculated
• Help
  • Added a section on the Nuvi 500, curtousy of a user. Thanks! Garmin Nuvi 500

Released 04-08-11

Version 1.2.8

• File Processing
  • Fixed issues with new version of file processor where KML files were saying "no tracks".
  • Fixed issue with some trips reporting weird mileage
  • Fixed issue with some trips not showing speed/hr/cadence/power metrics

Released 04-07-11

Version 1.2.7

• Help Pages
  • Updated Edge 305 , Edge 605 , Edge 705 and Edge 800 help pages.
  • Added instructions for loading Open Street Maps (OSM) onto both an Edge 605/705 and Edge 800.
• Routes
  • Editing a route will now also save POI, sorry for the hassle.
• Uploads
  • Upload processing has been improved. Switched from libxml-ruby to nokogiri, improved GPXX support, enhanced GPX support, wider TCX support. Sorry if you got caught up in some bugs right after releasing. I reprocessed about 500 or so older uploads in order to test the new stuff.

Released 04-04-11

Version 1.2.6

• Export Help
  • Added help sections for the common Edge series devices. These are rough and a work in progress. Pictures and more detailed instructions, plus better formatting, will be added. Additionally, actual writeups for Edge 205/305/500 will be written, for now these are just stubbed out.
• Premium Accounts
  • Cuesheet printing page now remembers your unit preference

Released 03-28-11

Version 1.2.5

• Site Wide
  • Premium accounts are up and running - we soft launched these last week. We will announce to the mailing list in the coming week when we iron out some more details.
  • Fixed wording and added distinctions between premium account levels.
• Premium Printing
  • Fixed spacing issue at top of generated PDF, for title
  • Fixed cue leg issue, where the length of the upcoming leg was showing the previous leg's length.
• Profile edit and signup
  • Fixed setting location on profiles in both signup and edit user screens. Removed user editable lat/lng values to avoid bad values.
  • Fixed some users having problems editing their accounts due to bad lat/lng values.
  • No longer requiring first/last name for users.
• Routes
  • *Hopefully* fixed issue saving routes for some people. Intermittently routes don't save but redirect you to the search page. I believe I have found the problem, and have instituted both a workaround and a logging system that tells me if/when the probblem occurs. Sorry for the ongoing hassle to any affected.

Released 03-12-11

Version 1.2.4

• Garmin Sync
  • Removed errant popup in IE saying "Error: Invalid Argument."
  • Added instructions to update the Garmin Communicator plugin to Edge 500/800 users
  • Listed official support for Garmin Edge 800 units
• Signup
  • Fixed bug preventing a new user from typing in an location and setting their default location.
• User routes/activities
  • The first route/activity is now automatically populated when the page loads.
• Saving routes
  • Pavement quality is in a sensible order now.
• Profile
  • Disabled tabs now display an instructive message saying there is no content to show, with instructions to add that content. Previously clicking the tabs just did nothing.
• Sitewide
  • Added "My Profile" link under "Profile" menu. A number of users were confused about how to get to their profile so hopefully this clears things up a bit.
  • Display of "You don't have Flash installed" for a second before the page completely has been removed from all areas on the site where it was happening.

Released 03-03-11

Version 1.2.3

• Routes / Trips
  • Fixed issue with some uploads erroring out.

Released 03-01-11

Version 1.2.2

• Sitewide
  • Fixed comments so that the commentor no longer is notified by email when they comment on something.
• Routes
  • Fixed intermittent saving issue for some users. People were getting "Request URI too long", or instead of getting a confirmation that the route was saved, were being prompted to download a file. This *should* be resolved with this fix, and I will continue to keep an eye on things.
  • Uploaded files that do not contain timestamps (about 5% of the files we receive) will no longer be saved as a trip, but instead, as a route.
  • Fixed KML export issue for routes and trips with no description
  • Fixed editing issue that cropped up for some people
• Trips
  • Premium beta users can now upload log files from an indoor training ride (a ride with no position data). Everyone else will see a message about this being in private beta.
• Premium Beta Activity Center
  • Fixed error when viewing activity center with no saved activities

Released 02-23-11

Version 1.2.1

• Sitewide
  • Random errors around the site made a few pages unavailable depending on browsers. This has been fixed.
  • Speed improvements on several pages by limiting default search results shown from 30 down to 15.
  • Occasional login and signup through facebook errors were fixed.
• Trips
  • Uploaded trips now have moving time, and thus distance, average HR, cadence and watts calculated differently. I changed the default "stopped limit" to 2mph, up from 0.5 mph. So, if you are traveling less than 2mph you will be considered "stopped". This gets rid of lots of bad values from standing still but having your GPS register you as moving (sensor errors). In future, this will be changed to be user selectable, so hikers won't be penalized.
  • zero distance trip uploads should now be fixed...Couldn't find a clear indication of the problem, but I think I solved it anyway.
  • Fixed broken map on trip edit form
• Conversations
  • "Back to inbox" now works again, sorry for that being broke

Released 02-16-11

Version 1.2.0

• Sitewide
  • Moved to Rails3 which involved a rather large migration of code.
• Routes
  • Improved API access for developers. Contact us if you need access to detailed route or trip information.
  • Fixed TCX export - will now properly show locations of turns on Edge 305 and Edge 500 devices when "doing a course".
• Trips
  • If you have a power meter, all power and calorie figures are now computed using power, rather than the old estimated values based on heartrate.
  • Calories are computed assuming a 25% efficiency (75% of work lost as heat). ((power converted into Kwatt)*(time to reach number of Kjoule burned)/(conversion from Kjoule to cal))/(efficiency)
  • Improved accuracy of cadence/hr/speed averages. No longer computing values when "stopped" as part of the average. In the future I will add options in your profile to change value for stopped speed, etc.
  • Improved API access for developers. Contact us if you need access to detailed route or trip information.

Released 12-30-10

Version 1.1.30

• Inbox
  • Clicking back to inbox will show correct unread count and read/unread messages accurately. (bugfix)
• Gear / Trips
  • When editing or creating gear, added option to exclude trips on that gear from totals. Example: I don't want to see my motorcycle roadtrips included in my total elevation gain and total miles, so I edit that gear and use this new option.
• Garmin Sync
  • After importing the first ride, your default gear continues to be selected now. (bugfix)
  • Added ability to display recently used routes when importing new rides, which is a quicker route selection method if you are logging a regular ride and have a long list of routes to choose from.

Released 12-06-10

Version 1.1.29

• Email Notifications
  • Replying to an email notification for a message or a comment is now better at detecting and ommitting the original message text. Before, it often quoted the entire original email in the comment or message thread, which was pretty ugly.
• User profile page
  • Activity calendar on the profile page now remembers your selection of what to display on the calendar. By checking/unchecking the boxes, that preference is remembered in the future for viewing yours and others profile calendars.
  • Switching back and forth to route previewer no longer breaks map.
• Trips
  • Uploaded trips that have some bad data (multiple points with same timestamps) no longer have bad speed graphs.

Released 11-29-10

Version 1.1.28

• Site Wide
  • Major site speed improvements. I trimmed out unused javascript and CSS from the main site and only included it where it was needed. Additionally, I removed automatic logging in through facebook, which was costing about 1 second per page load. Now, users must log in manually through facebook by clicking a button, however the speed improvements were well worth it.
• Comments
  • Commenting on gear that isn't your own no longer tosses an error
  • Replying to your comment notification email will now post a comment in reply.
• Messaging
  • Replying to a new message notification email will now reply to that message.
• Trips
  • You can now send an email to upload@rwgps.com with an attached TCX/GPX/KML file, and have that file post to your profile. This only works if you are sending the email from the account you registered RWGPS with. This is especially handy for users of mobile phones who use applications like MyTracks for Android, which allow exportation of a logged activity by email.
  • Fixed edit trip page - had weird CSS styling that was causing things to be pushed all over in various browsers.

Released 10-27-10

Version 1.1.27

• Site Wide
  • Speed improvements all around the site - moved all javascript to bottom of page, so pages render faster
• Routes/Trips
  • Added option for trips to be private - anywhere you can enter a new trip (upload or bulk or from route), checking "Make Private" will persist the setting and make it your default

Released 8-31-10

Version 1.1.26

• Site Wide
  • Fixed an issue where certain internet connections (usually people accessing from work, school or a cellphone) weren't able to connect reliably. If you were getting blank pages or frequent "Something Went Wrong" messages, this fix probably solved your issue.
• Routes
  • Improved speed of route search by 2 orders of magnitude. Before, querying the database took around 0.6 seconds (and was getting worse the more routes we have), now it is consistently around 0.01 seconds. Much faster! Only downside is "distance from" isn't a circle where the distance is the radius, it's a square where the distance is the side of the square, meaning that it might include extras a little further than the search, and exclude some right inside the search boundary. I will improve this later with a polygoin approximation of a circle, but this is a big improvement for now.
  • Added flash player detection - if you don't have it, you get notified and told how to get it
• Photos
  • Fixed photo deletion - you can now delete your photos. Not sure how we managed to break this, or not notice it for so long!

Released 8-28-10

Version 1.1.25

• Preferences
  • Added ability to set a default gear when adding trips, can be changed on your settings page.
  • Fixed bug preventing the site from remembering the last tab you were on on your profile page.

Released 8-19-10

Version 1.1.24

• Routes/Trips
  • Location is no longer emptied out after editing a route
  • Editing a route no longer causes profile map previewer to stop working for that route
  • Route/trip owner unit preferences preserved when sharing on facebook
  • Static map images now more consistently created, as well as facebook wall notifications on route creation
  • Added 'fix cuesheet' button to route editing and new route modes. will fix out of order/bad distance cuesheets. Your mileage may vary, better fix coming soon.
  • Fixed out of order cuesheet entry problem - cues should now place themselves in the correct position.
• User Profiles
  • Editing your profile no longer auto-fills fields like passwords (was annoying before!)
• Front Page
  • Removed "What's New" from front page - was stale and not sure what we want to do with it yet.

Released 8-13-10

Version 1.1.23

• Routes/Trips
  • Copy any route to your own profile, so you can edit it and save trips on it. Just click 'Copy route to my account' when viewing a route.
  • Added more information in the export tab to explain the various formats and what units they work best on.
  • Fixed bug that prevented the first route from loading in certain conditions on profile pages.
• Garmin Sync
  • Displays times in your local timezone now.
  • Hides previously uploaded activities.
  • Fixed bug that resulted in an error when you hit 'enter'.
• Uploading photos, bulk GPX/TCX/KML/FIT uploader
  • Added alternative basic uploader, in case the primary uploader does not work for you.
• Sharing a route by email
  • Emails are given a reply-to of the logged in user, so recipients can see who shared the route, and email them back.

Released 8-6-10

Version 1.1.22

• Routes and Trips
  • Fixed problems with static map image generator, much more robust now
  • Now you can upload photos, set/modify captions for trips. If latitude/longitude is in the exif data, they will be shown on the map.

Released 7-27-10

Version 1.1.21

• Site Wide
  • Fixed signup process to be step by step, instead of all in one form. Introduced steps to encourage facebook users to register actual email
  • You can now adopt orphaned routes. If you accidentally save a route while not being logged in, this can fix it!
  • Too many small bugfixes to list, but browsing should be much more reliable at this point.
• Route Viewer
  • Implemented a fix to correct out of order cuesheet notes. Still tracking down root cause, but problem can be fixed on case by case basis.
  • Fixed averaging problem for speed overlay when zooming in/out of elevation profile.
  • You can now adopt orphaned routes. If you accidentally save a route while not being logged in, this can fix it!
• Route Planner
  • Fixed issue where plotted route could not save if location information was messed up.
  • Swapped "save as new" and "update existing" buttons so updating the existing route is the bottom right button (more expected behavior).
  • You can now adopt orphaned routes. If you accidentally save a route while not being logged in, this can fix it!
• Profile
  • Lazy-loading any hidden tabs. This should result in a noticeable speedup in how long it takes a profile page to load.
• Activity Log
  • Remembers whether you were last using the data table or the calendar view now.

Released 7-13-10

Version 1.1.20

• Site Wide
  • SEO changes around the site - fixed titles and descriptions for generic pages, fixed wording to reflect our business.
• Routes
  • Fixed elevation profile generation link
  • Static map generation is partially broke - 3rd party service for map tiles is overloaded. We are working on our own tile server.

Released 7-9-10

Version 1.1.19

• Routes
  • Fixed auto-center issues when removing segments and other actions
  • Fixed about 400 routes which had issues with editing, and fixed reason those routes were broke in first place
  • Fixed route preview for a number of routes with bad data
  • Added average grade to the metrics
  • Editing a route will no longer remove the location of the route.
• Trips
  • Added average grade to the metrics

Released 7-7-10

Version 1.1.18

• Trips
  • Fixed elevation inaccuracy issues
  • IE users no longer experience browser lockup - certain versions of windows and IE were causing issues.
  • Drastically improved robustness of the trip parsing stuff. Less uploaded/synced trips will error out.
• Routes
  • No more errors planning a trip in IE with Windows 7 and Windows Vista
  • IE users no longer experience browser lockup - certain versions of windows and IE were causing issues.
  • Fixed elevation inaccuracies
  • Added elevation source for rest of world, now you get live elevations while planning trips outside US, and it is quick!
  • Fixed javascript error when performing certain tasks in route planner and viewer (expanding sidebars, etc).
  • Fixed route search - wasn't scrolling through extra results
  • Fixed route search randomly failing - was using a limited query API for lat/lng lookups. Changed provider priority.
• Issues
  • Issues are no longer broken - made them more robust so if a user account is deleted, the whole system won't crash.
• General
  • Fixed bug where multiple accounts were created when signing up using facebook...caused odd problems throughout site.

Released 6-24-10

Version 1.1.17

• Trips
  • You can now edit heartrate/cadence values for trips. Only issue is if you change the calculated values, they will be "overwritten" when the trip is displayed. This isn't an issue unless you edit a trip that had HR data, and you are inputting new HR values or cadence values.
• Conversations
  • Made it so notification emails will be delivered more consistently. Issues with other servers on internet thinking we are spam, slowly fixing them as they come up.
• Garmin Sync
  • Added support for more Garmin models, fixed bugs with GPX based devices (GPSMap, Nuvi etc).
  • We now tentatively support Edge 500. No preview map is available (an issue with Garmin), and it requires the latest version of the communicator plugin.
  • Added option to split activities on laps, helpful if your GPS recorded sameday activities as laps instead of separate activities.
• Site Wide
  • Added spinning loader indicator when submitting forms and other data. Now users can see "something happening", instead of no action.
  • Big sitewide performance improvements. Had several complaints about performance and reliability, most issues are now fixed. It was a bug in Redis, a data storage program we use for some data. Upgrading to latest fixed the issue.

Released 5-30-10

Version 1.1.16

• Embed view
  • New slimmer header
• Sitewide
  • Fixed erroneous menu bar drop shadow placement for IE users
  • 'Feedback' window was too short and was adding unnecessary scroll bar
• Edit profile
  • In some cases, the edit profile form wouldn't submit because the confirm password field was auto-filled and hidden (the password/confirm password fields need to match for the form to submit). The confirm password field is no longer automatically hidden.

Released 05-28-10

Version 1.1.15

• Sitewide
  • Fixed random errors popping up. For you nerds, it was a weird error occasionally popping up from caching issues
• Route Planner
  • Anonymous routes now save again, again another caching issue
  • MUCH better edit functionality - routes no longer are "one long segment", you can drag individual segments just like you created the route
  • Fixed random incorrect distances on coursepoints when editing a route. Coursepoints should now order properly, and at the correct distances.
• Route Viewer
  • Better coursepoint ordering/distances - can't seem to make them get out of order anymore
• Supported Formats
  • Added better support for non-english GPX/TCX/KML
  • Added rough support for auto-fixing corrupt TCX/GPX/KML files. Seems to work fine for missing tags or control characters.
  • Added support for KMZ files (compressed KML)
  • Added support for ZIP archives of trips! Doesn't support directory structures, but just plain zip files filled with trips.
  • Additionally, we now also support gzipped files. Not many people use it it seems, but the option is there.
  • Better error messages for GDB and WKO files - we don't support them and won't anytime soon (closed formats).

Released 05-24-10

Version 1.1.14

• Sitewide
  • Various style fixes: menubar shadow not full width on home page, blue links in the "view" and "delete" columns on your Activity Log
• Route Planner
  • You now have the ability to add POIs (points of interest) on the map and cuesheet.
  • Removed unnecessary horizontal line beneath route creation control buttons.
  • Fixed the "How do I..." helper menu bubbles (they were vertically offset)
  • Added save/save as functionality when editing a route. Now you can make a new route similar to an existing, without starting from scratch.
  • Route editing is much more functional! No more really long uneditable sections.
• Route Viewer
  • Removed "click to finish" text from start icon.

Released 2010-05-18

Version 1.1.13

• Route Planner
  • Double-back on routes with ease - no more problems clicking back on your route to go over the same section twice.
  • Fixed bug preventing feedback while planning a route.
  • If you minimize a sidebar, this will be remembered for next time you view or draw a route.
  • Using new slim menu bar to maximize vertical space on both the route planner and viewer.
  • Click the start icon to go back to the start while drawing a route.
• Calendars / Weekly Stats
  • Set which day your week starts on in your preferences now.
• Uploaded Data
  • If your file supplies a track name, it is used.
  • Power data is supported in the graph if your file has it.

Released 2010-05-09

Version 1.1.12

• Route Planner bug fixes
  • Clicking a line segment no longer makes it disappear
  • Undo no longer changes zoom level
  • Undo and redo both pan smoothly again
  • Undoing the entire route is no longer error prone

Released 2010-04-29

Version 1.1.11

• Route Planner
  • Performance improvements, especially for longer routes
  • Drag and drop editing for routes! Please report any weirdness...I think I got all the bugs....
  • Cut to end of route while drawing.
  • AJAX loading of routes when viewing means faster load times
• Miscellaneous
  • Performance enhancements site-wide. Spent two days, shaving > 1 second off load times on certain pages.

Released 2010-04-09

Version 1.1.10

• Garmin Sync
  • Show dates/times in your local time with improved formatting
  • Display units in imperial or metric correctly
  • Display duration of ride
• Miscellaneous
  • All preferences, including using metric units, work for non-logged in visitors
  • Added delete trip link in bottom left of edit trip page

Released 2010-03-23

Version 1.1.9

• Task processing (uploaded trips, garmin sync, map images, elevation refetching, etc)
  • Switched to a new background job processing system that is more robust, transparent, and functional.
  • Fixed elevation refetch. When editing a trip, check off "refetch elevations" and this will work now.
  • Cleared all queued tasks and revamped that system. Many queued tasks did not contain sufficient information for us to reprocess, and we improved them in several ways. The best option was to clear them and start from a clean slate. If you were waiting on a garmin sync, uploaded file, or elevation refetch to process, please re-initiate that process and the task will go through now. We'll be watching this closely.

Released 2010-03-13

Version 1.1.8

• Route Planner
  • Fixed bug that prevented scrolling when height of save form exceeded page height
  • Added helper menu to route planning page. Mouse over 'How Do I...' to get help on different actions!
  • Fixed rare issue with users of Google Chrome, which kept them from saving certain routes with odd characters in cuesheet
• Route Planner and Viewer
  • Open/closed states of sidebar options and tabs are now all remembered

Released 2010-03-12

Version 1.1.7

• My Routes/My Trips
  • Now remembers the number of routes/trips to display per page
• Route Planner
  • Fixed bug where distance markers wouldn't disappear after undoing
  • Brought back "Start Clicking!" label, but this time only for route planner, not route viewer
  • Fixed bug where re-centering map while there was no active route zoomed all the way out
• Route/Trip View
  • If defaulting to metrics tab, fixed bug that prevented displaying metrics on page load
  • Fixed bug that prevented 0's from displaying in metrics while zoomed in.
• Trips
  • You can now edit trip distance, and it will update your totals.

Released 2010-03-10

Version 1.1.6

• Route Planner/Viewer
  • Fixed bug where default option states weren't being read by the flash movie at load time
  • Improved aesthetics of distance markers
  • Fixed some broken routes and trips — No more error message if you were getting them previously.
• Site-Wide
  • Installed an SSL certificate - login and account creation now encrypted, any page can be securely viewed by prefixing 'https'

Released 2010-03-05

Version 1.1.5

• Garmin Sync
  • Completely revamped to add a live-preview map. You can now see what an activity looks like before submitting it to the server. Eventually (soon!) we will add support for stationary trips (indoor trainer sessions), and this interface will reflect it.
• Trips
  • FIT filesupport was broken. Fixed issue and FIT files can now be processed.
  • Added better error messages for files with no points. No longer says 'unknown file format'
  • Mile markers can now be overlayed on trips
• Routes
  • Fixed static route image link problem people were having with facebook.
  • CSV output for route cuesheets, when a route has a cuesheet
• Routes and Trips
  • Added stumbleupon and twitter links to the share page.
  • Added optional mile/kilometer marker overlays when mapping and viewing routes/trips.

Released 2010-02-24

Version 1.1.4

• Issues/Bug Reports page
  • Create new bug reports or suggest new ideas
  • Vote on other people's submissions
  • Add comments to other suggestions
• Sitewide
  • Added quick search (Click the Search button in the main menu to access it)
• Profile page
  • Made "tasks in progress" deletable
  • Fixed missing "no gear image" image
• Route planner/viewer
  • Added option to disable keyboard shortcuts
  • Widened right sidebar a bit
  • Fixed bug that was hiding most of sidebar (including Save button) in IE 8
• Route/trip view
  • Preference for overview/metric tab is now automatically remembered
  • Made distance and elevation gain update when zooming on elevation histogram
  • Fixed elevation refetch for trips -- now it actually resets elevation data to USGS data

Released 2010-02-21

Version 1.1.3

• Route planner/viewer
  • IE8 fix to remove black border around map, fixed short comment box in IE8
  • Fixed bug that caused the route playback area to overlap above content with short window heights

Released 2010-02-21

Version 1.1.2

• Timezone fixes
  • Your time zone is respected on activity summary tab showing monthly/weekly totals now
  • When viewing someone's profile, you see times in their time zone
  • When viewing a route or trip, times shown are in the time zone of the user that created the route/logged the activity
  • Note: if you notice any time zone problems please let us know through the feedback link on the menu bar up top, thanks!

Released 2010-02-20

Version 1.1.1

• Route Planner/Viewer
  • Fixed bug preventing playback in IE 7/8
  • Resolved a few minor layout issues in IE 7

Released 2010-02-16

Version 1.1.0

• Route Planner/Viewer
  • 3D mode and playback controls for uploaded GPS data (you can also zoom in and playback the zoomed section)
  • Re-organized sidebar control panel to include tabbed navigation
  • Added facebook share link
  • We now prompt users to setup their account to allow us to post updates to your wall when creating a new route.
  • Metrics affected by zooming in have their background color changed.
  • Added toggles for HR, Cad, Speed graphs within histogram.
  • Keyboard events less buggy.
• Garmin Sync
  • Now supports a variety of non-fitness devices like the Nuvi, 60s series, etc.

Released 2010-02-12

Version 1.0.9a

• Route Planner/Viewer
  • Linear interpolation between points for a smoother effect when you mouseover the elevation histogram. All values interpolate, including HR, speed, etc. You can turn this off under options on the route viewing page.
  • Simple gradient and lighter colored line for elevation histogram.
  • Improved zoom functionality for elevation histogram: click-drag to zoom into a selection, or click for a start point, and click for an end point (both styles of zooming in supported now).

Released 2010-02-11

Version 1.0.9

• Route Planner/Viewer
  • Re-center map now centers on whole route instead of first point
  • Shift-click and drag to draw a rectangle and zoom into that area
  • New keyboard shortcuts: panning (Shift + W/A/S/D), zooming (Shift + Q/E), re-center map (r)
  • More efficient javascript keypress handling
  • Creating a route will now, optionally, update your facebook profile with a link to your recently created route. Link your profiles and setup your sharing options in your profile settings.
• Embed View
  • Header now defaults to ft/mi to match histogram units
  • Double-click zooming added
  • Units now match route creator's preferences (metric/imperial)
• Trip Processing
  • We now support FIT files! Unfortunately, Garmin doesn't allow third party sites to use communicator and FIT devices yet, however, you can manually upload FIT files to be processed.
  • We are now storing power data for both FIT and TCX files. Currently we are not processing the data, however, analytics for power data will come soon.

Released 2010-01-23

Version 1.0.8

• File uploads, Garmin Sync, Task processing
  • File uploads, garmin sync, bulk file uploads are all handled much more reliably
  • We will better be able to diagnose processing issues
  • Unprocessed trips will no longer sit around forever
  • Existing unprocessed trips have been removed
• Route viewing
  • Added options: "enable crosshairs" and "enable scroll wheel zoom"
  • Removed undo/redo/start over from right click menu when viewing a route

Released 2010-01-22

Version 1.0.7b

• Route planner
  • Added right-click context menu with undo/redo/start over/recenter map/donate
  • Added "Enable scroll wheel zoom" checkbox under "Options"
  • Added "Re-center map" link under "More Controls"
• Header
  • Removed facebook button, made login a simple link
• Embed view
  • Fixed ugly logo with mismatched background gradient
  • Changed "Signup!" to "Free Signup!"

Released 2010-01-19

Version 1.0.7

• Front Page
  • Fixed facebook integration to make linking existing account easier. Before it was way too easy to accidentally create a new account.
• User Profiles
  • Added a preference to the settings menu of a profile to link/unlink an account with facebook
  • Fixed route preview not working for some mapped routes.
• Routes
  • Route search was broken in some cases -- this is now fixed, sorry about the inconvenience.
  • Some cuesheets had weird locations, which got messed up in our large data migration. All those have been fixed with no issue.
  • Cue sheet printing page was not showing the actual direction notes! This has been remedied, sorry for the blatant bug.
• Trips
  • Fixed the problem where some trips automatically split into multiple activities -- some Garmin files aren't standard, we are now taking that into consideration.
  • Fixed issues where some KML and GPX files were not recognized
• Site-Wide
  • Fixed caching issue, so some pages will have faster load times due to more cached images
  • Removed duplicate sprite image on front page, reducing loads by 300kb per pageview
  • Fixed image issue where some thumbnails would not load -- it was a path issue due to caching and facebook integration.

Released 2010-01-05

Version 1.0.6

• Front Page
  • Removed slideshow for signed in users
  • For unsigned in users, direct link to create account using facebook connect
  • Showing a 'please donate' message for signed in users on front page
• User Profile
  • Added a donate tab to the top of the preview pane in center of profile
• Route / Trip
  • Fixed bug where creating a trip from a freshly mapped route was broken. Sorry, introduced this in the previous deploy.
  • Fixed all issues of route uploads not working, and processed backlogged uploads. Again, sorry for introducing the bug.
• Conversations
  • Fixed bug where email notification of a message in a conversation was duplicated and mal-formed.

Released 2010-01-05

Version 1.0.5d

• Front Page
  • Minor changes to create account/start drawing buttons.
  • Using A/B testing to determine best presentation for various UI components (Geeky stuff!)
• User Settings Page
  • Added privacy option to hide location
• Site-wide misc.
  • Facebook Connect integration. Now you can log-in or create a new account with your Facebook account.
  • Major changes to backend code, which will result in increased reliability and MUCH increased speed.

Released 2009-11-24

Version 1.0.5c

• Site-wide misc.
  • Lots of missing icons/pictures and sidebar collapse buttons fixed (switching to CSS sprites messed them up)
  • "My Activity Log" now displays as "Name's Activity Log" when you're looking at someone else's activity log
  • Gave top border to map on routes/activities pages
  • Fixed ugly buttons from 1.0.5b
  • Changed incorrectly sized "Image is being generated" image on front page
  • Updated style of embedded routes to match redesign
• User Profile Page
  • Trip links inside any given route: now the whole list item (instead of just the text link) can be clicked to take you to the trip page
• Route Planner
  • Fixed missing sidebar collapse buttons from 1.0.5b
  • Removed "Start Clicking" text from histogram, because it would display the text even when it was loading a route to be viewed

Released 2009-11-22

Version 1.0.5b

• Site-wide
  • Improved performance all around. We are using a better webserver setup, and just finished configuring the performance-related variables. Most images are now contained in sprites, which means less HTTP requests and faster response time.
  • Menus are not as sensitive now. You can pass your mouse over them without them flying open right away.
  • Missing icons fixed.
• Route Planner
  • Added back the ability to use two clicks to select a map type from the dropdown. The one-click select method (added in 1.0.5) on the map types dropdown was not convenient when using a laptop touch pad. Now you can use both methods.
  • Fixed issue with sidebars not expanding in height when "Record this as a trip" was selected
  • When save button is clicked, a loading notification is displayed until the route is finished saving
• Routes and Activities page
  • Data table has multiple pages now, and has a configurable number of listings per page. Should make this page more manageable.
  • Deleting items in the data table works much better now. Thumbnails (at the top) are removed when items are deleted as well.
  • Thumbnails for routes that are generated from uploaded trips will display now.
• Search
  • "Refine Search" button now inserts a loading message into the content area.
  • User search page auto-populates with recently logged in users.
• Activity Calendar
  • HR zones no longer shows up as 0s when they are not present.

Released 2009-11-20

Version 1.0.5

• Route Planner
  • Added histogram toggle button.
  • Changed behavior of map type dropdown. Now, you can mouse down to open the menu, and mouse up to select the map type. Before, you had to click once to open the menu, and then click again to select the map type.
  • Fixed IE bug that prevented Draw Lines button from displaying.
• Bulk GPX/TCX/KML Upload
  • New page for uploading multiple GPX/TCX/KML files at once. They will be new trips for now, but this will be expanded soon.
• Garmin Devices
  • Icon added to menu
  • Header image added to sync page
• Menu Bar
  • Re-organized menu. Routes & Users menu items are now gone, functionality can be found now under Search
• Add Content page
  • New page created to give an overview of the different types of content you can add (click on "Add Content" in the menu bar)
• Site-wide
  • Implemented support for time zones. Go to your settings page to set your time zone!
  • Fixed login box hints so that they show up on all pages instead of just front page.
  • Converted about 45 icons to two sprite files to reduce image load time
• Signup page
  • Pressing the enter key when the "Find your location" input box has focus now sets your location.
• Misc. style updates
  • Fixed issue with lightbox close button being partially obscured until mouseover
  • Removed highlight from Home menu button
  • Added menu highlight shading for submenu items with icons
  • Made photo upload window slimmer (accessed from your profile page)

Released 2009-11-13

Version 1.0.4

• Direct Sync with Garmin Devices
  • Sync directly with your Garmin device! Check it out under Routes -> Garmin Sync
• Miscellaneous
  • Search users will search display name now, in addition to first, last, and email
  • Feedback box is much larger
  • Send message to a user box is much larger
  • A link to set up your health information has been added to the My Profile menu, as well as the Settings page. If you set up health information, we will calculate HR zones, estimated power output, and estimated calories burned if you capture heart rate data from your rides.

Released 2009-11-10

Version 1.0.3

• Site-wide
  • Added icons to submenu items
  • Added mousewheel zoom for drawing and showing routes
  • Modified zooming in via keyboard controls: if mouse is over map, then it centers on the cursor location, otherwise, it zooms on the center of the map
  • Added map type dropdown control to all preview maps
  • Added GPX route file export -- use this for a simple turn-by-turn on a Garmin 305, or let your 605/705 autoroute between coursepoints
• Route Planner
  • Pressing undo/redo now centers the map on the last point
  • Changed "Keyboard Shortcuts" to "Keyboard Controls"
  • Keyboard controls now work even when map doesn't have focus (except when input boxes have focus), also works when course point info window is open, except when input box has focus
  • Changed blue background of histogram in fullscreen mode to white
  • Disabled the alert that said "We've recovered your route", because it was annoying and unnecessary
  • Made cue sheet sidebar resizable
  • Made route info button (lower right of flash map) slightly wider to accommodate longer numbers
  • Added option to avoid highways
  • Added option to toggle auto-centering
  • Added option to toggle crosshairs
• Show Route Page
  • Got rid of borders on columns below route
  • Changed the height of the metrics in the right sidebar to fit, so it doesn't push the histogram checkboxes down
  • Resized the speed and gradient graphs below route to avoid horizontal scrollbar
  • Re-added photo list for trips with photos
• Route Planner Histogram
  • Thinner border line
  • Changed font of cursor label to match sitewide font settings
  • Added antialiasing to fonts
  • Replaced histogram blue ball with smaller circle outline
  • Histogram is taller
  • Zooming in is now a one-click process. Mouse down to begin zoom selection, mouse up to finish zoom selection.

Released 2009-10-03

Version 1.0.2

• Site-wide
  • E-mail/password labels on login are back, and allow your browser to fill in your login name if it's saved.
  • When sending a user a message, or sending us feedback, clicking outside the box will no longer close it.
  • Removed the scrollbars from the feedback form.
  • Added tooltips to e-mail and password input boxes because there were no labels
  • Added Browse Users link under "Users" button on main menu
• Activities Calendar
  • Month totals only reflect days in the month, not activities that display on the calendar from the prior or following month. (thanks Max)
  • You can go back and forward months without being logged in now (was throwing an error before).
  • Activities on the same day now sort from first to last (was showing later activities before earlier ones).
  • Days not in current month are grayed out to distinguish them now.
• Route Planner
  • (unnamed) disappears when you click on the name field when saving a route now.
  • Active (currently viewing) course point is highlighted in cue sheet
  • When editing cue sheet, when the course point window textbox is clicked, it selects the contents of the textbox.
  • Cue sheet now fits the full width of the column, so highlight colors give the text some breathing room on the sides
  • Shift + enter = saves current course point and goes to next course point, auto-selecting the text for easy and fast cue sheet editing
  • Shift + arrow keys = navigate through course points
• My Routes & My Activity Log
  • Metrics are displayed on My Routes
  • Trips taken on a route are shown on My Routes, and other trips taken on this route are shown on My Activity Log
  • Both pages allow you to export gpx/tcx/kml without viewing the route or trip detail page
• View route
  • Re-enabled double click zoom for view mode
• FAQ page
  • Added more frequently asked questions
  • Added table of contents with smooth scroll when links are clicked

Released 2009-09-30

Version 1.0.1

• Site-wide
  • Added "Browse Routes" as a menu item under "Routes"
• Route Planner
  • Fixed auto-save problems. Now you will get your full route back, rather than have it occasionally miss sections.
  • Now responds to metric/imperial changes. Sorry about that small bug.
  • Fixed issue where drawing route too fast would 'overload' map and not draw a section.
  • We now auto-center on your last click. Removes the need for dragging around map after clicking.
  • Hopefully found a good middleground between reducing number of cuesheet points generated and losing turns. As always, continue double checking your cuesheets after drawing a route!
  • Changed color of speed overlay on the graph from purple to black -- it now stands out against the reddish elevation background.
  • If you forget to login before drawing a new route, the save form will remind you and prompt you for your username and password. No more accidental orphan routes.
  • Non logged in users can no longer save routes as invisible. There were 327 unviewable routes because they were invisible and had no owners! These have now been made visible.
  • Accidentally introduced a bug that killed cuesheets after saving a route. This was live for a day, but is now fixed with this release.
  • Disabled double-click zoom
  • Added shortcut key for adding new course point (n)
• Profile Page
  • Fixed previewer map bugs that made it so only portions of route displayed

Released 2009-09-25

Version 1.0

• Site-wide
  • Fixed problem with shadow overlay being shown but no alert box in IE 6 & 7 (showed up when trying to edit a route or signing in with bad login info)
  • Fixed issues with sidebar & header drop shadows being displayed as black rectangles in IE
  • Removed "Email" text from first text box so it can now auto-complete login info
  • Made login submit button have the focus upon page load (so you can press enter to login if your login credentials are saved)
  • Added "Keep me logged in" feature (cookie lasts 1 year)
• Route Planner
  • Added keyboard controls for panning and route creation
  • If you undo until before your first point, you now won't lose all your redo states
  • Added functionality to on-map route info control button: now toggles sidebars between open & closed
  • Fixed route info control button: does not display "NaN" for number units, now displays nothing instead
  • Route planner/previewer now uses thinner line
  • Previously, clicking on the map when the histogram was zoomed in caused things to get buggy. Now clicking on the map when the histogram is zoomed in will zoom out of the histogram
  • Units are now abbreviated (i.e. 'm' and 'ft' instead of 'meters' and 'feet')
  • Moved Distance and Elevation back to Route Details to save vertical space on right sidebar
  • Improved start and endpoint marker icons
  • Fixed: pressing undo would not cause the histogram to re-draw
  • Added print button icon on cue sheet sidebar
• Front Page
  • Redesigned front page to make everything simple and clear
• Route search page
  • Added "Remember this" to each result in route search
  • Added default "map image is being created" images
  • Clicking on 'Preview' now causes the preview map to slide into the center of view, instead of opening up outside of the viewport
• Show route page
  • Added route image to cue sheet print view
• User profile page
  • Fixed IE issues of positioning month navigation arrows in activities tab
  • Changed "Vertical feet" on profile page to "Vertical gain" & "Miles travelled" to "Distance travelled" when viewing a piece of gear
  • Made routes previewer on profile page 50px taller
• Conversations page
  • Fixed broken image of conversation partner when viewing full conversation thread

Released 2009-08-6

Beta 3 "Redesign Release"

• Site-wide
  • Redesign deployed: new look and feel, everything is cleaner, more consistent, and easier to user.
  • Performance improvements all around: general site use should feel more responsive.
  • Tooltips around site! Anything that has a dashed underline can be moused over to view a tooltip.
  • Full-screen map mode is back!
  • Added metric/imperial conversion preference into menu bar
  • Fixed problem with IE not being able to save routes
  • Deployed system-wide non-intrusive alert system (jGrowl)
  • Fixed moving/stopped time bugs
  • Correct average speed calculated using moving time
  • Static map previews (full, thumb, micro) for all routes/trips
  • Fixed buggy route import/trip upload. Had some issues with code, should be resolved.
• Route Planner
  • Added ability to change line color
  • Added "Remove Complete Segment" function
  • Added "Start New Segment" function
  • Added "Add Course Point" function
  • Route planner now auto-saves your route. No more spending 20 minutes on the perfect route to have your power go out and take down all that hard work.
  • Added "Driving/Cycling" mode toggle button
• Cue sheets
  • Made each direction slimmer vertically to save more space
• Front Page
  • Ported old front page to new design theme
• Conversations page
  • In-line replies
  • "With selected" actions
  • Marking messages as read
• Route search page
  • Cleaner, simpler layout
  • Search from start location AND end location
  • Search by length
  • Search by keyword
  • Search by road surface conditions
  • Search by elevation gain
  • Shows recent comments
  • Shows recently favorited
• Route editing page
  • Route editing is now possible. You can delete whole line segments, partial line segments and change color of line segments.
• User search page
  • Find users within a given location
• User profile page
  • Cleaner layout of tabs
  • Route search filter in routes preview tab (shows up when more than 6 routes are present)
  • Added activity summary tab
• Trip view page
  • Calories and Watts displayed for trips with such data