Publish and search routes

[sandermvanvliet]

Provide a way to easily share routes and to search for routes in a world based on distance, elevation, KOMs, sprints etc.

Would need to be accessible from both route builder and runner. Perhaps a website to browse routes would be useful too.

[VNT974]

It would be awesome, clearly. Was thinking of this already, provide a public / recommanded library routes. Can be interesting if this can bring suggested routes + wourkout / groupe ride or races.

[Slothful1]

Could be worth collaborating with ZwiftInsider on hosting this if you don't want to do something on your own.

[sandermvanvliet]

I've tried to get in contact with Zwift Insider but no luck so far.

[VNT974]

Isn't better to deal with them ?
https://github.com/andipaetzold/zwiftmap

[sandermvanvliet]

Things are progressing nicely on this and it’s leading up to a pre-release that enables this functionality for beta testers.

Right now you can choose to either load a route from a local file (as was the default before) or search for a route.

Routes are available from a number of “repositories”:

• Local This is a folder in the user data directory where RoadCaptain also stores logs and user preferences. It’s meant to replace the regular local files.
• Rebel Routes This is a static list of the rebel routes as built by Zwift Insider. New rebel routes will be added as they are released.
• RoadCaptain shared This is the big one: this is a place where every RoadCaptain user can upload their routes for other users to ride 🎉

When you start RoadCaptain Runner, you can click the Search button and you will be presented with this screen:

As you can see there are plenty of search options which will allow you to find the best route you want today 👌

Sharing a route happens from RoadCaptain Route Builder. The save route dialog asks you whether you want to store it in a repository, when you select the RoadCaptain shared one your route will be uploaded and will become available to other users.

A nice bonus is that you can also search for a route from Route Builder, load it and then modify it. That means you can pick a route someone else created and add some extra segments to it if you want 👌

Of course loading and saving routes to a local file remains perfectly possible so you won’t lose your existing routes 👍

[sandermvanvliet]

This feature is now available in pre-release 0.7.0.0

[iilis]

Looking forward to getting into this; sharing my routes with others and exploring routes other people have created!

[sandermvanvliet]

The first few routes have already been shared 👌

[iilis]

I figured as much.
I’m just a little hesitant to download the pre-release builds... :)