Bikerouter Changelog

The elevation profile can now also be displayed for straight-line (beeline) segments.

Track Import: Restore drag'n'drop track files (e.g. GPX) onto the browser viewport to load them as track overlays.

Route Manager: Fixed an issue when restoring routes with multiple POIs.

Fixed an issue where POI names with semicolons in the URL caused Bikerouter to crash on load.

Track Import: Replaced the notification toast with a separate button in the import dialog when a saved route is detected in an imported GPX file.

Preserve already imported track layers when starting another track import.

(Re-)added keyboard shortcut Shift+O to directly open the file selector and import tracks/POIs as map overlays without opening the dialog.

Unified the two track-loading features into a single dialog. The new dialog allows loading a track either as a route or as track overlays.

Restoring a route from a saved bikerouter.de GPX file.

Route Inspector allows showing complete OpenStreetMap data for route segments.

Importing a file that only contains waypoints (no track) no longer throws an error and imports waypoints as POIs.

There is a short video explaining the new tilehunting overlays from the last release (in German only 🇩🇪, but there are auto-translated subtitles): YouTube

Tilehunting Grid Overlays for Level 14 and Level 17 tiles.

Hovering a route sometimes did not show the drag handle for placing a new via point.

Some small bug fixes/improvements

Allow storing and retrieving Bikerouter settings via the Route Manager cloud backend.

Improved performance and stability when changing waypoints in the sidebar.

GPX export did not work with Firefox on iOS devices after recent Firefox update

GPX export was not compatible with some GPS devices/apps.

GPX export was not compatible with some GPS devices/apps.

Move the profile selector on small mobile screens to the top navbar.

Custom routing profiles in the profile selection sidebar are now shown in italics.

[internal] GPX file generation rebuild from scratch.

Improve route download compatibility on devices running iOS and iPadOS.

Improve GPX export compatibility.

New base layer: basemap.de Web.

New map button to toggle route line visibility (mute).

Add dropdown selector for routing profiles on mobile screens when the profile selection in the main navigation bar is not visible.

Support for new Locus GPX export format (experimental, unfinished work in progress)

Added support for “exit left” and “exit right” voice hints in GPX export.

Refactored the search feature. Better keyboard handling and support for pasting coordinate pairs from the clipboard (DD, DDM, DMS, geo: URLs).

Improved login handling for Route Manager.

The route line remained (barely) visible even when the opacity slider was set to 0.

Route line could not be dimmed when color-coding mode was active.

Reversing a route triggered multiple redundant Tileflood discovery preview requests.

Small button to copy geo: links in waypoints sidebar

Rearrangement of buttons on the map; opacity slider moved to the tools menu.

EU flag 🇪🇺 as icon for English language switch :-)

Unified number of decimal places in distance values in the footer.

Clicking into the search input field no longer closes the search popout.

The new tools menu did not fit on very small screens sometimes.

The n keyboard shortcut did not switch between circular no-go areas and no-go polygons when pressed multiple times in certain cases.

Circular No-Go areas could not be created anymore in some cases.

Some global keyboard were not disabled when the profile editor is active.

No-Go areas can be drawn as polygons as well now.

A little bar which shows the app's active mode (route drawing, inspecting, adding POIs etc.)

Some visual adjustments

Settings section in main sidebar was extracted into a separate dialog. Open via the “Settings” button in the main sidebar or via Ctrl+,

Routing stopped after drawing a no-go area.

OpenStreetMap Notes layer is working again.

Workaround: allow loading stored routes with custom profiles that are no longer valid for BRouter 1.7.9.

Small bug fixes

The new “Route Inspector” allows showing detailed information about the route and its segments directly on the map. It can be activated via the new “Route Inspector” button (“info” icon) in the sidebar when a route is active (or via keyboard shortcut i).

Direction arrows on the route line

The current map view can be opened in JOSM via a link in the attribution line at the bottom right of the map.

Upgrade to new version of the routing engine BRouter 1.7.9

Update the routing profiles from BRouter to the latest version.

The detailed information in the elevation profile is now easier to access on touch devices when the elevation profile is not zoomed in. When zoom is active, it works as before when the “Lock” button (lock symbol) is enabled.

Lots of smaller bugs and glitches

Round Trip Planner: route was not created

A dedicated drag handle for moving routes into folders via drag-and-drop.

Route editing tools on the map can now be disabled temporarily. Toggle lock mode via the icon with lock symbol or via keyboard shortcut k.

New overlay: RailsTrailsMap.

Highlighted route segments when hovering route-details table entries and route analysis entries share the same style now.

Rebuilt the route-details table in the sidebar, removed unused functions, and made the table header sticky while scrolling.

Route preview image and elevation chart are now refreshed after overwriting a route.

Added a reload button to the Route Manager header row; it synchronizes all routes and folders from the server.

Fixed overflowing titles in the Route Manager.

Improved wording throughout the Route Manager.

The Route Manager allows storing and organizing planned routes. There is a blog post covering this new feature.

Some routing profiles did not show the full statistics in route analysis and some surface types were not visible in the elevation profile.

Bikerouter stopped working in some old web browsers after the elevation profile chart upgrade.

The new elevation chart appeared blurry in some browsers on Windows.

✨ The elevation chart was completely rebuilt from scratch, introducing numerous new features. For more details, check out the documentation or the blog post covering this release.

In route analysis mode, the highlighted route segments on the map are now better visible.

The layers inventory (right sidebar → layers → “More Layers…”) can now be searched/filtered by keyword. Also it's possible to only show activated layers.

It is now possible to remove layers from the layer selection again.

The download button is now focused when the “Download” dialog is opened. Also fixed focus states after opening the “Share” and “Load No-Go Areas” dialogs.

Pseudo tags that allow routing to be influenced by the environment (such as rivers/lakes, traffic, forests, cities, noise, etc.) are now available for all of Europe (previously only available for Germany). You can try this out, for example, in the profile settings of the trekking profile.

The names of POIs can be changed from the POI popup.

Custom layers can be changed now (name, URL, type).

Button to open the download dialog from the share dialog.

The hillshading layer can now be displayed with full opacity (Hillshading (opaque)).

Complete overhaul of the dialogs.

UI tweaks for the roundtrip planner.

Duplicate map data attribution line removed.

Removal of the old Strava Segments integration.

Separate opacity sliders for each overlay layer.

Complete overhaul of the “Create Route from Track” dialog.

Roundtrip planner and “Create Route from Track” dialogs can now be collapsed and moved around to get a better view on the map.

Show estimated distances instead of radius values in the Roundtrip planner.

Improved opacity handling for the hillshade overlay

Export/Import feature for settings as backup or for transferring to another device. Includes layers/overlays, settings, custom profiles, etc. and can be found in the main menu.

The color of the route line casing can now be freely chosen too. The color picker is located at the bottom of the main menu.

Field for Tileflood API token, Tileflood discovery planner and map overlays

Unified notification system for hints and error messages

Map display with open sidebar on screens between 768 pixels and 1024 pixel width.

The Bikerouter 2025 Recap is available now.

The color of the route line can now be freely chosen. The color picker is located at the bottom of the main menu.

The feature “Show elevation under mouse cursor“ can now be enabled via a button on the left screen edge.

Updated the list of keyboard shortcuts (“About” → “Keyboard Shortcuts” or ?)

Profile Management button was invisible on certain screen resolutions.

The routing profile can now be set separately for each individual route segment via the waypoints sidebar.

The “split route from/to waypoint” feature works again.

Fix height of “What's New” dialog in Safari browsers

Notification and dialog for change log/release notes

High-Resolution Hillshading Overlay (Mapterhorn data, select “Hillshading” overlay in the sidebar, also try playing with the overlay transparency slider)

Disable roundtrip keyboard shortcut (Shift-R) when text input is active

Roundtrip Planner (documentation)

Syntax highlighting in profile editor

Set color of imported tracks (color picker in sidebar layer list)

Custom Profile Management (Save, Load, Delete)