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v236 2026-08-30

Radar now shows two hours of rain instead of forty-five minutes. RainViewer, which supplies the radar, withdrew its forecast frames at the start of the year, so the fifteen minutes of look-ahead the app used to promise no longer exists anywhere — and the help text had gone on promising it. Rather than simply lose that half, the play bar now runs the full two hours of history the service still provides: more of a shower's track to read, which is the honest way to judge where it is heading. The timeline stretches to match, anything past an hour reads as -1h30, and the "now" mark is gone because now is the end of the bar
Location works on a computer. A desktop without GPS is placed by wi-fi, which is accurate to tens of kilometres rather than tens of metres. The app treated anything that vague as no fix at all and quietly did nothing — leaving the map sitting in its default Swiss valley however far away you actually were. It now takes you to the right region and fetches the weather there, zoomed out to match how confident it really is, while still reserving the "you are here" marker for a fix precise enough to deserve one

v235 2026-08-14

Pts now means exactly that many points, evenly spaced. Asking for 12 gave you 13, because the sampler counted intervals and then added the starting point, and only the plan's ceiling ever trimmed that extra one off. The spacing was uneven too: on a 300 km route, five points landed at 0, 60, 180, 240 and 300 km rather than every 75 km, because the points were chosen from an already-thinned list instead of from the route. Both come from one change: the route is now measured once and divided into exactly the number of points you asked for. Very short routes still stop at one point per kilometre, since no forecast changes over 80 metres
Updating no longer re-downloads everything when Pts is below your plan's maximum. The freshness check counted a forecast as complete only when it held the full 5 or 25 points, so choosing any smaller number, or loading a route too short to fill it, meant every press of Update went back to the weather service for data it already had

v234 2026-08-14

"From: my position" now spends all your weather points on the road ahead. It used to re-time the forecast you already had and hide the points behind you, which meant that halfway through a long ride, half your points were spent on road you had already covered. Set From to My position and press Update: the app finds you on the route and spreads every point you are allowed between you and the finish. On a 300 km route at five points that is one every 30 km ahead of you instead of one every 60 km over the whole track. Pressing Update again later, with nothing changed, still costs no network at all: it re-times what it holds from where you have got to, so a rider with no signal keeps exactly what worked before. Going back to The beginning takes one Update, and the app says so rather than pretending

v233 2026-08-14

One less question when a track is longer than your weather points. Updating a long route used to stop and ask whether to spread your points along the whole route or take the first ones from your position. The two answers turned out to differ by a single point out of five, because the app already spaces the points by route length before that question is ever asked, so whichever you picked the map looked the same, and once picked there was no way to change your mind. Weather points are now always spread along the whole route, and a short message tells you how many were used. Starting the forecast from where you are, rather than from the start of the track, is what the Weather from control does, and it does it properly for a ride already under way

v232 2026-08-14

The app finally says its own name. Until now "WeatherGPX" appeared on screen in exactly two places, the import wizard's title bar and a printed sheet, while the Account panel credited Open-Meteo and aone communication and showed a version number with no product in front of it. The sixth rail button now carries the app's own W GPX mark, the same one on your home screen and in the browser tab, instead of a generic person icon, and the panel it opens is headed by the full name in the same colours the website signs itself with. The button had already stopped being about you alone: behind it are your offline maps, the help pages and the version you are running. Signing in is still the first button inside, and the green dot still marks a signed-in account

v231 2026-08-14

Loading a route no longer forces a weather fetch. The import wizard now ends its first step with two buttons: Load puts the track on the map and stops there, Load with weather goes on to ask for your activity and departure exactly as before, then fetches the forecast. Since the two import doors were merged into one wizard, every route you loaded came with weather whether you wanted it or not, which is a wasted download when you are only checking a file, filing a route for later, or heading straight into navigation. Load on its own also leaves the timeline and the weather switches untouched, and the weather is still one Update away whenever you do want it

v230 2026-08-13

Right-click the map and it now tells you where that is. The popup used to answer with coordinates, which are exact and mean nothing to anyone. It now names the road you pointed at and the town or village around it. Nothing is looked up online: the map you are already looking at carries those names, so this works with no connection at all, including on a downloaded offline region. Open in Google Maps and Search online are built from the name instead of the numbers, which is the difference between searching for a place and searching for a pair of digits. Zoomed far out there is no name to read, and the popup says so by showing the coordinates alone rather than guessing at a village
One popup at a time on the map. Opening a second one used to leave the first sitting there, so a few right-clicks buried the map under boxes you then had to close one by one. Any new popup now closes whatever was open, whether it came from a right-click, a waypoint, a fire or a hazard
The map buttons show when they are switched on. Radar and Marker display were meant to look pressed while active and had quietly stopped doing so, and Relief, 3D and Hazards had never managed it at all. An active button is now filled in light with a dark icon, so a glance tells you what is running. This is the sort of thing you only notice when it is missing, usually while wondering why the radar will not turn off
Share works again. The button had been greyed out permanently since the panels were redesigned, no matter what you had loaded. It waited on a signal that a removed part of the app was supposed to send

v229 2026-08-13

The panels now float over a living map. Six round buttons sit along the bottom of the screen, or down the left side in landscape: Weather, GPX, Navigation, Extra apps, Settings and Account. A panel opens over the map instead of pushing it aside, and the map underneath stays fully usable: pan it, zoom it, tap a point, and the panel stays where it is. One rule everywhere, including on a computer: the button that opened a panel is the button that closes it
Every panel is sized to its own contents and none of them scrolls any more, in either orientation, on a phone as small as an iPhone SE. Rotating the phone keeps the panel open, because you usually turn the screen in order to keep reading
A sixth button: Account. Your account, offline maps and all the help, FAQ, legal and install links have left Settings and moved there. It doubles as a readout: a small green dot means you are signed in. That matters because a session can end quietly, for instance when you close the browser, and cloud sync then stops without telling you
Colour now says where you are. Each section has its own: azure weather, green GPX, violet navigation, magenta extra apps, indigo settings. Grey means "not a section", which covers the map's own buttons and the Account panel. Amber and red are kept aside for their real jobs, warning and danger. The background went from navy to a neutral graphite so the colours stop fighting it
A welcome box on first run shows the six icons with their names. Nothing in it can be tapped except Close, deliberately: the first thing the app teaches is the wand you press yourself. It also fixes a much older bug, in which that first greeting was drawn and then wiped off the screen a fraction of a second later, every single time
The weather panel is grouped by subject. One row for the weather itself (Active Point, Area, Forecast), one row for the route (Track, Pts, Departure). It is shorter than before and easier to read at a glance
Active Point, Track and Area are switches now. They used to look like a "pick one of these" group while behaving as three independent settings, which was simply the wrong shape for what they do. What they mean has not changed: a switch says what the next Update will include, and nothing happens until you press Update
Two doors instead of five buttons. Forecast opens Daily, and inside it a strip switches between Daily, Weekly and Chart. Departure opens Best departure, with Compare beside it. Fewer buttons in the panel, and the views you switch between are now next to each other where the switching happens
One Upload button. The GPX panel used to offer a GPX file and a Google Maps link as two separate doors, then the wizard asked the same question again. Now it asks once, and the whole row it saved went to the track list. Finishing an import leaves you in the GPX panel instead of dropping you into Navigation
Best departure fixes. Changing "within" now recalculates the answer immediately, instead of leaving the previous one on screen until you pressed the tab again. If the window reaches further than the forecast on your device, the missing days are fetched for you; before this, pressing Update genuinely did nothing at all in that situation. Offline, it says how many days it could actually use. In landscape on a small phone, the Best departure / Compare strip could vanish and "Use this departure" could fall off the bottom edge, both fixed, and the forecast list has more than twice the room
The question about how many points to sample could freeze the app. If it was raised while any window was open, it appeared behind that window, where it could be neither read nor answered, and the weather fetch waited for an answer for ever. The same flaw made Delete account impossible to confirm
A failed weather update no longer costs you the forecast you had. The old one is put back and the app tells you the update failed, instead of leaving the route blank
Weather no longer re-fetches itself in a loop when the timeline sits outside what the forecast can answer. It used to keep asking until the weather service refused to talk to it
Route markers and weather icons stopped disappearing under the map credit in the bottom corner of the screen
Fixed the map being cut off at the bottom in a phone browser, where the last rail button could be sliced in half and part of the weather panel sat below the visible area

v228 2026-08-08

Navigation could get stuck on "waiting GPS" and never start. It affected every route and every phone, and it had nothing to do with your GPS signal. Fixed the same morning it was found
Importing a GPX file no longer shows an error banner, and hiding a route in the edit dialog now closes its eye icon on the first tap instead of leaving it open on a route that had already gone
Weather from your position. Stop halfway through a ride, switch Weather from to My position, and the app finds you on the route, drops the points already behind you, and re-times the rest at the pace you have actually ridden today rather than the speed you planned this morning. It needs no internet at all, since the forecasts are already on your phone and only the times change, so it works in a valley with no signal. Switching back to The beginning restores the morning plan exactly, with nothing re-fetched
The weather panel is reorganised into three groups: updating and choosing what to fetch, then the forecast and departure buttons, then Timing at the bottom. Leaving within has joined the button row, so it reads as three across like the row above it. Weather from is a two-way switch rather than a dropdown
Travel time, speed and activity moved to the weather panel, under Timing. They decide when you reach each weather point and feed nothing else, so they belong with the weather rather than with the file
Track width moved to the Navigation panel and its buttons are bigger. It is something you reach for while riding, when the sun is flat on the screen or the road is rough, so it is now where your gloves are already going
The timeline stays visible while the weather panel is open. Most of that panel works against the date the timeline is showing, so hiding it made the panel harder to use. If it takes too much room on your screen, the Timeline toggle still turns it off
Update Weather now works offline on a route that already carries forecasts: it re-times them from what is stored on your device and tells you it did so, instead of refusing
The elevation chart starts from your position when Weather from is set to My position, so you are looking at the ride you have left rather than the ground you have covered
Best departure will no longer send you out in the middle of the night just because the wind drops at three in the morning; riding in the dark now counts as a real cost, though a dry night can still win if every daylight hour is genuinely foul. It also never proposes a time that has already passed, which it could do when the timeline was still sitting on this morning
BT Remote: the swallowed first press, properly this time. The previous version claimed this was fixed and it was not. The real cause was that switching Remote mode on left the toggle holding the keyboard focus, so the next press went to the toggle instead of the map and fell through to the phone's volume control. Also fixed: swapping to another app and coming back no longer switches Remote mode off, and the remote now recovers straight away when something else takes over the audio, instead of waiting up to half a minute
The speed field shows its unit again (it had been showing the word "speed" instead) and is wide enough for imperial values, which carry a decimal

v227 2026-08-07

No more false "off track" on dual carriageways and motorways. The app was measuring your distance to the nearest point of the route rather than to the route itself, so on a long straight, where the recorded points can be hundreds of metres apart, it could report you far off the line while you rode dead centre on it
The off-track distance now follows your speed. Tight when you are slow and picking your way along a track, where going wrong matters and you can still stop; relaxed at speed, where an earlier warning would not change anything. Poor GPS relaxes it further, so a weak fix cannot raise a false alarm, and never far enough to swallow a real one
Auto-zoom you can see and control. The map zooms itself in six steps with your speed, and there is now an Auto-zoom switch in the Live Navigation options. Zooming with the buttons or the BT remote shifts the whole range up or down and keeps auto-zoom running, instead of silently switching it off as before; pinching still takes full control, and the switch shows it
Bigger off-track banner, and "No GPS signal" now reads as a warning. Both are sized to be read at a glance with a helmet on
Tap any weather point on the map to open its forecast. Works for the active point, an area point, and a route point, which opens the day you are expected to arrive there rather than today. The Weekly view follows the same point
Best departure. Choose how far ahead to look, from one day up to as far as the forecast can still cover your whole route, and get a single answer: when to leave, what it will be like, and one tap to apply it. Compare puts two departures side by side within the same window
Rain chance on the elevation chart, so you can see at a glance which stretch of the route gets wet. The two weather-list buttons have gone: every point on the map now opens its own forecast, and the route warnings moved into the weather panel where they are always visible
The timeline can go back to midnight today, for when you are mid-ride and want to see what was forecast this morning. Offline it stops at the edge of the weather stored on your device, so it can never show an hour it does not have
No more hourly limit on weather updates. It dated from when the server fetched forecasts on everyone's behalf; your device does that itself now, so the cap protected nothing
BT Remote: the first press after a long quiet stretch is no longer swallowed

v226 2026-08-06

Navigation controls re-zoned for gloves: the centre of the map is now left to the route and the controls moved to the corners. Top left is the riding column in large glove-sized buttons: zoom in, recenter, zoom out. Top right holds the controls you set once: stop navigation and the weather-line eye. The orientation toggle moved into the coordinates row at the top centre
New "No GPS signal" indicator: in a tunnel or wherever the signal drops, a pill appears in the HUD after about 10 seconds and off-track checking is suspended while it shows. When the signal returns your position re-snaps to the route and nothing is announced, because you never actually left it
No more false "off track" alerts: the alert now waits for two consecutive readings, so a single stray GPS sample cannot trigger it, and the trigger distance takes the accuracy your phone reports into account, within a limit that guarantees a genuine departure is still announced
Extra zoom step between 60 and 90 km/h: the map now sits half a level wider in that range, for more lookahead at main-road speeds. Below 30, 30 to 60 and above 90 are unchanged
Signing in on a new device now reproduces the old one: tracks come back with their colours, with what was shown or hidden, with their waypoints, and with the track that was open. Previously several of these were lost and tracks could arrive invisible
Weather point count follows your plan: left alone the Pts field is 5 signed out and 25 once you sign in as a subscriber, with nothing to touch. Pick a number yourself and that choice is kept, and travels with your account
W GROUP: a rider who stops no longer vanishes from the map. Instead of being deleted after 30 seconds of silence, the dot stays at its last known position, dimmed, labelled with how long ago it was seen. An SOS position is never dimmed
Fixed: WeatherGPX Express opened with an empty body, showing only the step dots and Next, so the wizard could not be used at all
Fixed: with the Area toggle on, the loading spinner could stay on screen after Update Weather had finished placing its points, and then never go away

v225 2026-08-01

BT Remote has its own help page: which remotes work and why, the tested list with a photo of the BT13, the default mapping, the setup wizard step by step and what to check when nothing happens. Linked from the BT Remote section of the help
Quick menu at the top of the help page: one tap jumps to any section (Map, Weather, GPX, Navigation, Extra apps, Settings, Account, Install, Contact)

v224 2026-07-31

New in Extra apps (⋯): BT Remote: control WeatherGPX from the handlebars with any Bluetooth remote (3-button media remotes, page turners…): zoom in and out, recenter the map in direction-of-travel, or flip to the OBD2 dashboard with a double press, all without touching the screen
Setup wizard: pair the remote in the phone's Bluetooth settings, then let the app detect your buttons: press each one, then double-press it; buttons that support a double press get a second action slot. Assign the actions you want per button, or just use the default mapping (fits common 3-button media remotes out of the box)
Remote mode claims the phone's media buttons with a silent audio stream: starting music in another app takes them back (the switch then turns itself off), and the remote works while WeatherGPX is on screen. Tested with an OBD2 dongle and a Sena intercom connected at the same time

v223 2026-07-30

New Track width selector in GPX Settings: four sizes (1–4) for the track line and its bend highlight: pick what suits your eyes and screen, and the same width applies everywhere, regular map and navigation alike
Bends now stand out by colour: sharp bends are drawn in a lighter shade of the track colour (darker if your track colour is already light), easy to spot at a glance, on the map and while navigating; behind you they fade with the ridden track
Navigation starts in direction-of-travel mode: the map holds north while you are stopped and rotates with your heading once you are moving; at a stop it keeps its last orientation instead of snapping back. The orientation button still switches to fixed north-up, and your choice is now remembered
Group is now its own app: same group riding features inside WeatherGPX, plus a standalone version at weathergpx.com/group with its own help page

v222 2026-07-29

New in Extra apps (⋯): OBD2 dashboard: on Android, plug a Bluetooth LE OBD2 dongle into your motorbike and see RPM, gear, coolant, battery and more live inside WeatherGPX, with compact live chips over the map while navigating. Full details in the OBD2 help
Navigation: a curve-ahead panel above the HUD announces the next sharp bend (type, angle, distance), and the map now zooms with your speed in Moto mode: closer in the twisties, wider on the fast bits. The panel button is now simply Go
Settings, reorganised: route settings moved where they belong: a new GPX Settings accordion at the top of the GPX panel holds Travel time, speed and activity (with the POI toggle on its header), and the weather point count (Pts) now sits right next to the Weather panel toggles, appearing as soon as a track is loaded. The Settings tab keeps only app-wide preferences, with "Mode" renamed Map Mode
New Timeline toggle next to Update Weather: hide the on-map timeline widget when it takes too much room on a small screen: it comes back with one tap
Compare now shows up whenever the loaded track has hourly weather (it could stay hidden before), with a clear message when the stored data is too old to compare

v221 2026-07-27

Radar, reborn: the rain radar now draws directly on the main map, over your track, at your zoom: no more separate mini-map. It even drapes over the mountains with Relief and 3D on. A floating play bar (bottom of the screen) animates the last 45 minutes plus a 15-minute look ahead; tap the radar button again to switch it off
Weekly Forecast now covers the full 16-day horizon in one scrollable list, with today highlighted, and in the Daily view a new Weekly button between the ‹ › arrows takes you straight back to the day list
Quick Start now opens by itself only on your very first visit; afterwards it waits politely behind its wand buttons in the Weather and GPX panels
Polish: slimmer forecast dialog headers, the timeline widget steps aside while the panel is open on the phone, and with no track loaded the weather panel shows only the controls that actually work

v220 2026-07-20

New in Extra apps (⋯): Currency converter: one tap opens our companion app Rate Buy/Sell with your trip's currencies already set up: the countries your visible tracks cross (or the active point's country) become conversion cards. A single country shows its currency against EUR, USD and GBP. Opens in your language, and directly in the Rate Android app if you have it installed

v219 2026-07-18

The track list now organises itself: when your tracks span several countries or regions, country headers appear with flag and track count: tap one to fold the group away. A track belongs to the country where it starts, detected automatically, even offline. Nothing changes if all your tracks are in one place
Shape thumbnails in the track edit dialog: recognise a route by its outline at a glance, whatever the file is called; each row also shows its country flag
Weekly Forecast: tap any day to jump straight into that day's hour-by-hour forecast
Daily Forecast: new ‹ › arrows in the header to step through the days, up to 15 days ahead
Track edit dialog polish: bordered list with a slim scrollbar so it's clear where the list ends, and the list opens in the same order as the GPX panel: what you see top-to-bottom is the Join order

v218 2026-07-15

The Fire button is now a Hazards button (warning-triangle icon): one panel to choose which natural hazards appear on the map: wildfires plus floods, earthquakes, cyclones, volcanoes and droughts, from worldwide GDACS alerts. Each hazard has its own coloured marker; tap one for details
Fires now load only when you are zoomed in enough (a "zoom in" hint appears when the view is too wide), and the fire overlay is smoother and steadier while you pan and zoom
Hide all button to clear every hazard in one tap

v217 2026-07-14

New Fire button (flame icon): shows active wildfires near your route, detected by NASA satellites and refreshed through the day, handy off-road to see at a glance if fires are burning along the way
Tap a flame for details: when it was detected, the confidence of the detection and the fire's intensity; larger flames mean more intense fires

v216 2026-07-14

New Relief button (mountain icon): shaded hillshading makes the terrain readable, with ridges, valleys and slopes standing out even on the flat top-down map
New 3D button: tilt the map and watch your track climb and descend over real elevation, with sky and atmospheric haze on the horizon
Turning on 3D also switches on Relief; both buttons light up while active. Turning 3D off returns to a flat map but keeps Relief on if you had it on

v215 2026-07-12

Daily Forecast now shows just the selected day (midnight to midnight) instead of running on into the following days
The timeline control no longer drifts into the middle of the screen after rotating the phone: it stays anchored above the navigation bar
Rotating the screen now reliably re-fits the map to your track and reflows the layout

v214 2026-07-11

Quick Start (magic wand) moved from the map into the Weather and GPX panels; the separate Express button removed; Quick Start's "GPX Track" option opens the same route wizard
Map top controls rebalanced: Share sits on its own to the left of the coordinates field; My Location, Marker display and Radar grouped to the right; the button row stays centred in portrait
Settings drawer widened on landscape phones so the Weather panel is no longer cramped
Google Maps import button relabelled from "Google Maps URL" to "Google Maps"

v213 2026-07-10

Live Route reworked after 3 days / 1500 km of real-world ride testing
Off-track recovery fixed: navigation now re-acquires the track after you stray from it, instead of staying stuck "off-track" until you closed and reopened navigation
Offline no longer shows you as logged out: your session is kept when the connection drops and restored automatically when you're back online
Navigation HUD redesigned: speed, elevation, remaining distance and ETA in a full-width 2×2 grid with larger numbers; units no longer wrap; next weather shown on its own centred line at the bottom
Live ETA now uses your actual moving-average speed (measured while riding) instead of the configured cruising speed
Navigation starts North-up with a brief cue and a pulsing orientation button, so you switch to heading-up when you choose
Rider position arrow moved to the lower third of the screen: more of the road ahead is visible
Rider arrow enlarged and now red; look-ahead chevrons red; track line ahead thicker, easier to see at a glance while moving
Bigger navigation button icons and on-screen messages; alerts and toasts now size themselves to fit, fixing text overflow in longer languages like German
New navigation toggles: "lat/lon" shows the live coordinate readout (handy for reporting your position for SOS or rescue), and "weather point" shows or hides the weather markers on the map
The on-map eye button now toggles the weather line in the HUD

v212 2026-06-29

Offline maps: download a region to use the map without internet, available to subscribers
57 regions available across all continents: Europe, Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania
Offline maps dialog: regions grouped by continent in a collapsible accordion

v211 2026-06-26

Group feature renamed "Live Group": works for hikers, cyclists, and riders, not only motorcycle trips
Live Group panel redesigned: Member and Watch as distinct labeled sections; group name on its own row with an edit button for admins; Share and Leave at the bottom of the Member section; followed groups listed with name, rider count, and × to unfollow each one individually
Group name changes made by the admin now propagate to all members and watchers in real time
Live navigation: heading-up mode now correctly puts your direction of travel at the top of the screen; previously it was inverted
Live navigation: the blue position arrow now points in the actual direction of travel
Navigation lookahead chevrons: white with a soft glow instead of the track color, easier to see against any map background; slightly larger
Zoom level on navigation entry increased by one step on all activities

v210 2026-06-25

Group riding: share your GPS position in real time with others on the same route: everyone appears as a colored dot on the map, updated every 3 seconds, no account needed
Groups get a random landmark name (Matterhorn, Lofoten, Grand Canyon…) instead of a code, easier to recognize and share
Group SOS: one tap sends an alert to the whole group; a red banner with the sender's name appears on all screens; anyone can cancel once the situation is resolved
Groups are limited to 10 people
Share link combines the route and the group in a single URL: recipients land on the track with the group already joined
Help page: Group riding section added in all five languages
Landing page: new "Ride together" section; plan feature lists updated; "Registered" renamed to "Subscriber" throughout

v209 2026-06-24

Landing page restructured around two pillars: Weather (standalone or along a route) and Navigation (live GPS); new hero title, "How it works" expanded to 4 steps including navigate live, two dedicated feature sections replacing the old features grid
Login panel and landing page pricing: Free column now shows "no account" and "no registration" aligned with the price lines of the Registered column

v208 2026-06-23

Join and Unjoin moved from the track edit dialog to two panel-level buttons above the track list: Join merges all visible tracks at once, Unjoin splits any joined track back into its original segments
Hidden track eye button now shows in the track color instead of grey, easier to identify tracks at a glance
Unjoined tracks get distinct colors from the palette instead of repeating the same color
Help page fully rewritten and expanded in all five languages (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES): covers every panel, navigation, settings, account, and app install
Help page language now follows the app language automatically
Contact email updated to info@weathergpx.com across the app and all content pages

v207 2026-06-22

Live Route HUD: speed and altitude shown larger, remaining distance and ETA slightly smaller, easier to read at a glance while riding
Live Route HUD: on landscape phones, labels appear inline next to values instead of stacked, more compact
Live Route: orientation button moved to the left control column, under the eye and close buttons, same position in portrait and landscape
Live Route: map auto-centers on your position; panning manually pauses auto-center; tap My Location to resume
Live Route: the eye button now toggles all weather layers (track markers, area markers, custom point) together and restores them exactly as they were when navigation ends
Live Route panel: three new options (Voice guidance, Coordinates bar, Off-track alert), each toggled independently
Express wizard: after completing the wizard, the app opens the Navigation panel instead of the Weather panel
Elevation data (for routes without GPS altitude, such as Google Maps) now comes from OpenTopoData, a separate source from the weather fetch, reducing load on Open-Meteo

v206 2026-06-21

Map engine upgraded from Leaflet to MapLibre GL: vector tiles rendered in WebGL, sharper at every zoom level and on high-DPI screens
Direction arrows on the route line show which way the track runs
Map style switched to OpenFreeMap liberty: cleaner look, more detail at high zoom

v205 2026-06-21

Weather icons switched from PNG to SVG: crisp on all screen densities including high-DPI phones and tablets
Live Route: optional voice guidance: toggle next to the Live Route button; announces turns, sharp bends and U-turns with a distance countdown (first announcement, then at 200 m, then at the turn); also announces off-track, wrong direction, and arrived; off by default

v204 2026-06-20

Admin: subscription column now shows _mo or _yr instead of "active", synced from Stripe; monthly and yearly counts visible in the stats header
Admin: password field has a show/hide eye button
Google login now works on desktop browsers: state stored as a first-party cookie set before the redirect

v203 2026-06-20

Track list: Join all button (left) merges all tracks into one using the optimal order and direction; large gaps (over 5 km) are flagged before joining; Delete all button (right) removes all tracks after confirmation
Track color shown on the eye visibility button in the track list
Weather points setting replaces the km interval: choose how many weather points to place along the route; spacing adjusts automatically to the route length (5 points for free accounts, up to 25 for subscribers)
Google login now works on desktop as well as mobile
After logging in, the weather fetch now correctly uses the subscriber point limit; previously it could skip the fetch if the count appeared unchanged
Portrait navigation panel no longer opens full-screen when waking the phone from sleep
Track weather toggle no longer stays disabled after joining a large number of tracks
After Google login, the app now returns to the app correctly instead of the landing page

v202 2026-06-20

Google Maps mobile links with a dropped pin as origin now work correctly; previously only named-place routes were supported
Express wizard: removed the info button next to the route selectors; GPX file and Google Maps tabs now fill the full width
Help page Live Route section updated in all five languages: button label corrected, weather not required to start, eye button described as left-side map control, GPS altitude note added

v201 2026-06-20

Google Maps on mobile: paste the link from the Share button directly, no more "request desktop site" workaround needed
Live Route button moved to the top of the GPX panel, above Express, and shown only when a track is loaded
Live Route HUD: cell 2 now shows your GPS elevation (altitude from your device sensor); weather row shows precipitation instead of wind speed, with the distance to the next weather point
Live Route HUD shows "Waiting for GPS…" on start: prevents blank display when the device is still acquiring a signal
My location button zooms to navigation level during Live Route (16 for motorbike/road, 17 for MTB, 18 for hiking)
Desktop GPS jitter fix: inaccurate browser location (IP-based, wrong city) no longer causes the map to jump to the wrong place or the HUD to stay blank on entry into Live Route

v200 2026-06-19

Express wizard: the Google Maps tab now has an ⓘ button: on mobile, the link shared from the Google Maps app needs to be modified before it can be pasted here; tap the button for a direct link to the step-by-step FAQ

v199 2026-06-18

Changing speed in settings now immediately updates all arrival times and weather along the route, no need to re-fetch
Express wizard departure time now uses two 24h selectors (hour 00–23, minute 00/15/30/45), no more AM/PM on iOS regardless of device locale

v198 2026-06-18

Live navigation portrait layout: HUD moves to the bottom-right, curve-ahead panel to the bottom-left, both visible at the same time without stacking
Off-track and wrong-direction alerts appear centered at the bottom, overlaying both panels only when active; the stop button stays clear at all times

v197 2026-06-18

Portrait navigation: the bottom panel now opens in one tap at a height showing all controls plus the beginning of the list below, no hidden second level to swipe to
Compare departures dialog title now translates correctly when the app language is not English

v196 2026-06-18

Language set on the landing page now carries over to the app, no more reset to English on first open
All dialogs (track edit, Quick Start, compare, share, radar…) now translate immediately when opened, regardless of which language was active
Loop tracks: departure and arrival weather markers no longer overlap: they are offset sideways so both icons remain readable

v195 2026-06-17

Live Route: map orientation toggle: a button in the top bar switches between north-up and direction-of-travel-up, using a proper Leaflet rotation engine that loads tiles for the rotated viewport and works offline
Live Route: snap algorithm now uses a forward-only window after the first GPS fix, preventing hairpin bends from pulling the position marker to the wrong side of the track
Live Route: red dashed line from your GPS position to the nearest track point is now shown whenever you are off-track, not only at the pre-navigation approach stage
Live Route: navigation controls enlarged during active navigation: larger icons, input and Leaflet zoom buttons for easier use while moving
Live Route: in landscape, the HUD moves to the right edge and alert panels to the left edge, both at the same height, and alerts are roughly twice the size
Portrait: during navigation the top controls wrap to two rows: buttons on the first line, coordinates input on the second

v194 2026-06-17

Title, description and landing page now explicitly mention Google Maps route import, making the feature discoverable from searches like "weather along Google Maps route"

v193 2026-06-17

Track visibility (show/hide eye button) is now saved: hidden tracks stay hidden after reload
Hiding the active track automatically transfers focus to the first remaining visible track, so the active track is always one you can see
Google Maps import FAQ: added a warning that "Your location" as the starting point produces a URL with no fixed origin that cannot be imported; a real address or coordinates must be used

v192 2026-06-17

Live Route: curve angle ahead: a panel above the navigation bar shows the upcoming bend direction, sharpness, and distance (bear, curve, sharp turn, or U-turn icons)
Live Route: off-track alert: red banner and vibration when you stray more than 40 m (hiking/MTB) or 75 m (road/moto) from the route, with a confirmation when you return
Live Route: wrong direction warning: amber banner and vibration when GPS heading is more than 130° off the expected track bearing, confirmed across 3 consecutive readings to avoid false alerts
Quick Start wizard no longer opens automatically when area weather is already active
Delete button moved to the left side of the track edit dialog footer

v191 2026-06-16

Radar overlay: animated precipitation map in a dialog, shows the last 45 minutes and available nowcast up to +15 minutes, play/pause and scrub controls, track displayed on the radar map
Active track is now remembered across reloads: the last track you were working on is restored, not the most recently created one
Area weather restored correctly on reload: markers reappear at the right positions from the saved cache, no incorrect refetch
Area weather day/night icons now reflect the actual current time, not the route departure time
Track arrival times preserved for routes without GPS timestamps: all points no longer collapse to the departure time when weather is re-derived
Live Route: location button and Express wizard hidden during navigation

v190 2026-06-16

Live Route: real-time GPS navigation, blue arrow follows your position, track dims behind you and stays bright ahead, red dashed line to the nearest track point
Weather HUD at the bottom of the screen shows the next waypoint and its forecast, eye button toggles weather details on/off
Activity-aware zoom on navigation start (motorbike/road: 15, MTB: 16, hiking: 17), user can zoom freely after
Live Route works without weather, starts on any loaded track
Weather auto-refresh during navigation, updates in the background when data is over 1 hour old and you are online
Weather cache re-uses fetched data for 1 hour, forces a new fetch when the sampling interval or speed changes
App updates automatically when a new version is available, no manual refresh needed

v187 2026-06-13

Track join: "Join…" in the track edit dialog appends another track to the current one, useful for multi-segment trails (e.g. TET) that you want as a single route for weather
Quick start + Install sections added to this help page

v186 2026-06-12

Share a route with weather: click the link icon on any track with weather to get a shareable URL, recipient sees the full route, forecast and elevation chart instantly, no account needed

v181 2026-06-12

Multi-track GPX support: files with multiple track segments (e.g. long-distance trails) are imported as separate tracks, each with a distinct colour, all visible on the map
Rain and wind alert summary: coloured pills above the weather list highlight dangerous conditions (strong gusts, heavy rain, storm, freezing, ice risk) with activity-aware thresholds

v179 2026-06-12

Elevation-aware weather: altitude passed to Open-Meteo for more accurate forecasts at high points
Elevation prefill for Google Maps routes: altitude fetched automatically, elevation chart fully populated
Google Maps routes can be exported as a proper GPX file with elevation data
Combined elevation + weather chart: weather cards (icon, temp, wind) overlaid on the elevation profile
New app icons (W / GPX design), favicon updated

v177 2026-06-12

Landing page: 3D tilt screenshot, SVG feature icons, pricing section improvements
Install app button on mobile (Android native prompt + iOS share instructions)
Language selector moved to footer
Versions changelog (this section)

v176 2026-06-04

Best departure time: auto-calculated sub-panel after every weather fetch (replaced dialog)
Sub-panel tab navigation: weather list and best time as switchable tabs
Chart buttons moved outside sub-panels, open fullscreen only
Service worker caches both landing page and app

v161 2026-05

Landing page created, app moved to app.html, index.html becomes the landing
Day offset badge (+1/+2…) on arrival times for multi-day tracks
Direct Open-Meteo API calls from browser (removed PHP server proxy)
Rate-limit detection for CORS-blocked Open-Meteo errors

v150 2026-04

Express wizard: 3-step modal for route + activity + departure, auto-fetches weather
Marker field config: choose which fields each map marker displays (temp, wind, precip…)
Area weather mode: current forecast for a grid of points around the map
Unified weather list: track, area, and custom point sections in one panel

v139 2026-03

Sub-panels introduced: weather list with collapsible point details
Best departure time (first version, as a dialog)
Single active point rule across track, area, and custom markers

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