Randonneur, the following is from the February supporter's newsletter. I have no personal experience of downloading markers.

The markers will be included in any GPX tracks you download, TCX courses, or journeys you send to Garmin Connect. (With TCX and Garmin Connect, only markers on/near the route will be included.) They won’t show up in the cycle.travel app yet but that will be coming in the next stage.

Thanks, hadn't seen that. This does not yet seem to be the case.

Here is an example: I placed a marker near via point 5, and when I download the GPX it seems to only grab the track, not the POI: https://cycle.travel/map/journey/589650

If I go to that link, and click "GPS" then "Download GPS track", I get the "Church?" POI included in the GPX file – do you not?

If you don’t, could you email me the file (info@cycle.travel) so I can take a look?

(This won’t work for anyone else unless the POI is set to “This journey only”.)

Thank you Richard. I went back and took a look at the GPX file on my computer, and you are right. It's in the last line of the GPX:

  </trk>
  <wpt lat="42.63504" lon="11.09692"><name>Church?</name><sym>Flag, Blue</sym><type>user</type></wpt>
</gpx>

The problem, then, might be with my phone OSM mapping software which I use to load the GPX file. That said, I tried two different ones (Guru Maps and Pocket Earth, both on iOS) and neither recognize the marker (but they do recognize POIs generated along with a brouter route, for instance).

I will write here if I can solve this on my end.

I just had a quick try with GPSVisualizer.com and it showed the POI correctly – might be worth asking on the PocketEarth forum to see what they expect in the <wpt> object.

Thanks! Sorry I raised this in the wrong place.