Major Announcement
Right to the Point
I’m excited to announce that RouteSlip.com has been acquired by MapMyFitness.
MapMyFitness is a collection of excellent fitness websites including MapMyRide, the leading website for creating and sharing cycling routes and tracking your training goals.
What Does this Mean?
The acquisition means great things to come for RouteSlip.com users.
Lots of new features and great user support.
The founders of MapMyFitness share my excitement for riding and my commitment to the cycling community. MapMyFitness has a staff of full-time developers and sales reps, and the management team is doing a great job building the infrastructure for a sustainable business. Moreover, I will become a member of the MapMyFitness technical steering committee, helping generate ideas and implement new features. I’ve received a lot of flattering emails from people about RouteSlip.com, and I’m looking forward to working with the MapMyFitness team to develop unique features for users.
Your user account and all of your routes will be saved.
We will automatically merge RouteSlip.com user accounts and routes to the MapMyRide platform, and traffic to RouteSlip.com will be re-directed to MapMyRide. I will keep you posted on the process, and I will let you know in advance if RouteSlip.com is going to be offline. RouteSlip.com will continue to operate as normal until the merger is complete. In the next several weeks, we will begin the migration of data from RouteSlip.com to MapMyFitness. Our goal is to complete the migration by the end of the year.
What’s Next?
First, I want to thank each of you for making RouteSlip.com successful. I’m really happy that I was able to create something that so many people have enjoyed. Second, let me know which features you like the most about RouteSlip.com, and what you’d like to see at MapMyRide. Please don’t hesitate to email me with any comments or questions. We’ve set up public forum in the MapMyFitness public forums to help answer any questions you may have. Finally, I hope you’re as excited as I am about the next steps. I look forward to creating and sharing routes with you at MapMyRide.
Thanks,
Ryan Huff
Founder, RouteSlip.com
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
All I can do is add my thanks for taking things as far as you did. Well done.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Ryan:
I appreciate what you did here. Please carry the elevation charts and cumulative climbing data (helps rate the route difficulty for other riders) to MapMyRide.
Take Care,
December 24th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
From RouteSlip user Stephen:
Congratulations on the acquisition. I hope it works out for you. I am the route coordinator for a local bike club, diablocyclists.org, and I’ve been redoing our route library with routeslip. I’ve got over 50 routes now, so I’m pretty familiar with the site. For what it’s worth, here’s my wish list.
Number one, is the ability to save and edit routes. I’d like to be able to open existing/completed routes and make changes, but almost even more importantly, I’d like to be able to save-as-I-go routes I am currently creating, so that when the inevitable glitch happens, I can go back to a saved spot without having to scrap the whole ride and start over. This would mean being able to save and stay in the current “Create Route” window without being automatically taken back to the “My Routes” page and having to reopen the route.
Second would be speed of creating and opening the routes. Once you’re over 20 miles or so, with a lot of points, the process really bogs down.
Third, ability to undo any command, but especially an auto route click. “Delete Last Point” is only good if you are not in auto routing, or you only need to delete a few points. If you or the program go somewhere wrong, and you start deleting a whole bunch of points, funny things are likely to happen. If I’m using auto route and I don’t like the route the program picks, I’d like to be able to immediately “undo” and go back and try again.
These would be my major ideas for the moment. One smaller request would be related to auto routing. Each time you click on the map with auto routing turned on, it gives you a “green” point at the last spot, even though it is in the middle of a road. This of course gives you a redundant direction text in the Route Slip function, which you have to delete from the map, or fill up your route slip with a lot of confusing and unnecessary info. If this didn’t happen, you could leave auto-routing on, make sure you never click too far ahead on your route, and be more assured of getting the program to take you where you intended to go.
Future ideas would be:
The ability to select any portion of a ride, including the middle, and do a “bulk” highlighting or regional select, which you could then delete, change, and hook up with later.
On loop routes, it would be great to be able to change the start/end point and keep the loop the same.
Cut/copy from one route map and paste into another.
Last, I find that the cumulative elevation gain Route Slip comes up with consistently over-estimates by as much as 20% compared with any of the GPS systems the riders in our club use. I even experimented with a long hill climb that I know doesn’t have any downhill to it. First, I made sure auto routing was turned off, and clicked once at the bottom, and then once at the top. It drew a straight line of course between the two points, and accurately calculated the elevation difference between them. (The elevation of the two points was also accurate on the program.) Then, I deleted the top point, turned on auto routing, and clicked again at the same summit point. I went had made a cup of coffee while it calculated the cumulative elevation gain for the climb. The result was 10% more elevation gain on a 6 mile climb using autoroute than there was on the point to point bottom to summit try.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Congratulations and best wishes to you Ryan. Routeslip has been great has helped me keep track of my training and mapping rides for my ride group. Thanks and keep on pedaling!