Hi there,
I love this app and basically use it for all routing and traveling I do. It successfully managed to plan a trip from western Germany to Sweden with ease, so first and foremost: Thank you for the effort you put into this!
I'd have one small suggestion: I sometime use the app to plan long circular rides e.g. for 24h racing. Currently, the way to adjust the length of the suggested route is controlled via a slider and I think it would be more precise to just have a field for text input. By that, the current maximum of ~350 km could be increase if I want to plan a circular multi day route, which I believe is currently not possible.
Cheers,
Dominik
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Dominik, I don't think the absence of text is the issue for regulating route length.
While saying that you are using the app (but not which version) the functionality you seek is available on the website and highlighted in the Supporter Newsletter of March '25.
The gist of it is to select your start point, Choose 'Suggest a ride', then 'Tour ideas'. This will give you options on daily length and number of days as well as the usual surface options. There is a circle symbol to generate different options.
However, I have noticed an issue. Using the website (Chrome) on my Android phone the tour ideas option was not offered - only the day option. My goto of holding the phone horizontally made no difference. I'm not sure, but I think I could do this before.
Hi Hobbes,
I'm using the browser via PC:
Currently there's a slider for the length to choose, and the same is true if I go for tour ideas. My suggestion was to replace those with text-boxes so I can enter a specific value and am not limited by the maximum slider length. E.g. currently it is not possible to plan a tour longer than 12 days, while I'm sure the planer would be perfectly capable of doing so, right?
best
Dominik
Thanks for the suggestions! Couple of things here.
On the day suggestions, adding a text input unfortunately isn’t simple for various complicated reasons, but I’ve just tweaked it so that you can extend the range available. Click on the distance field (which currently says something like ‘~40km’) and it’ll ask you ‘Extend range?’. Click ‘Ok’ and the slider will get bigger.
Tour suggestions use a very different algorithm, where the amount of processing gets much greater for long tours. I wouldn’t want to increase this from 12 days without quite a lot of testing to see how practical this is – i.e. whether or not it locks up the server for several seconds to calculate the tour. I’ll put it on the list to investigate, but I wouldn’t hold your breath!