HUB Web Planner

The Planner Screen

The planner is the map with your plan around it:

• The project menu — top left, the name of what you are working on (Unsaved Project until you save). Click it for Save, Save as…, Open…, Import GPX…, Export GPX… and Clear project. Beside it a chip says whether your work is saved.
• Favorites — your library of saved tracks, routes and waypoints, to drop into any plan.
• The left panel — Routes & Tracks above, Waypoints below, each with a count, select / select multiple / map select, show-hide, delete and sort. Routes & Tracks also has Merge and an opacity slider for every line. Double-click a row to centre the map on it; Shift+click selects several.
• The stats bar — top centre: total time, number of sections and total distance.
• The action bar — along the bottom of the map: Undo and Redo, the routing profile chip, and the tools (Pointer, Select, Cut, Delete). While you draw a section it turns into the drawing controls.
• The button — bottom left: New Section, New Waypoint or Auto Plan.
• The top-right chips — Map (layers and overlays), Warnings, Instructions and Auto POI, plus my location, place search and the Tools wrench.
• Route Info — a panel under the map with the elevation profile, road types, surfaces and distances of all sections or only the selected ones. Move Map on Hover follows the point under your mouse.

Hover a line and a card shows its name, size, how much is paved and unpaved, any permit or private stretches, and the distance, time and elevation at the point under the mouse. Right-click a section, a waypoint or any place on the map for its menu — on a place: Add Waypoint Here, Search POIs nearby, Save To My Locations, Copy Coordinates, and open it in Google Maps, Google Earth, Street View or OpenStreetMap.

Settings (the gear) picks the units (Metric, Imperial or Auto), whether the mouse wheel re-centres on the pointer, and Reset Layout. Help opens a short guide inside the planner.

Routes, Tracks & Waypoints

A plan is any number of sections, each a route or a track, plus waypoints. They all go into one GPX file.

Click a section’s row (or its line) to open Edit Section: name, colour, description, its route points (name them for a better GPX), distance, climb, descent, estimated time and the elevation profile, the routing profile, and Duplicate, Reduce Points, Convert to Track / Convert to Route and Favorite. Name and description travel with the GPX — DMD² shows both.

Drawing a Section

→ New Section asks Route or Track, then you click on the map.

• A route — each click is a route point and the planner routes to it. Drag a point or the line to change it, click a point to remove or name it. Snap puts each click on the nearest road.
• A track — pick how points join under Mode: Snap & Connect (each click goes on the road and the road between is filled in), Snap to Road Only (on the road, straight lines between) or Disabled (straight lines). Draw lets you draw freehand, and Select draws an area round points: New track moves them out into a track of their own, Duplicate copies them to one, Delete removes them (the track splits if they were in the middle).
• Follow — with Community Ways on, follow a stretch of them: click where it starts and ends on the highlighted ways and it joins the section.
• A waypoint, a HUB location, a search result or an Auto POI pin — while you draw, its popup offers Add route point (or track point): As the new start, Between the nearest points or As the new end, each with the distance it adds, the cheapest marked BEST FIT.

Done keeps the section; Discard drops what you changed. Cut is in this bar too: it keeps your edit and then cuts where you click.

Auto Plan (under ) plans a loop or an A→B for you: up to three options, each with its time, distance and how much is paved, with fuel and lunch stops placed. Pick one and it is added as a route.

Routing Profiles & Options

The profile chip in the action bar picks how a route finds its way: Road Fast, Road Fun (Scenic), Match any road, Offroad Easy, Offroad Medium, Offroad Hard and Advanced Adventure. Each section keeps its own profile and options, so one plan can mix fast road links and hard trails. Clicking the chip opens Routing Options for that profile:

Editing Tools

• Cut — click anywhere on a section’s line and it splits in two there. On a long straight stretch a new point is put in at the spot and shared by both parts; close to an existing point it cuts on that point. Yellow scissors show where it will cut and how far that is from the start. Both parts keep the section’s routing settings, its line opacity and the gate and toll pins on their own stretch; a route’s parts keep their line without re-routing. Only the very first and last point cannot be cut.
• Delete — click a section to delete it.
• Select — pick sections or waypoints, then draw an area on the map to select the ones inside it; hide, delete or merge them from the list.
• Merge — join the selected sections into one. Auto-order puts them in order by which ends are closest.
• The section’s right-click menu — Edit Details, Set Color, Routing Options, Hide, Invert Direction, Add Waypoint Here, Extract Part as New Route, Reduce Points, Convert to Track / Convert to Route, Duplicate, Save to Favorites, Opacity and Delete.
• Reduce Points — simplifies a track (Douglas-Peucker) and tells you how many points it saved.
• Undo / Redo — every change, including cuts and merges, is one step (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y).

The Map Panel & Map Tools

Map (top right) holds the base map style and layers, 3D terrain, map features, and:

• Community Ways and Community Ways options — the roads and tracks ridden by 3 or more riders, coloured and filtered the way you like, in a window you can move. Click a line for what riders say about it, or Follow this way to make a track of it. See Community Ways.
• Rider Reports — closures and hazards riders reported from the bike, from zoom 8. See Rider Reports.
• Section Line Options — Slope Coloring (blue downhill, green flat, red uphill, where the line has elevation) and Add dashes for unpaved (stretches of 250 m or more).
• HUB content — your Locations, public locations and your riding group’s members.

The Tools button, under the search button, opens:

• Measure (M) — click points for each leg and the total. A leg along one of your sections is measured along it, with the straight distance beside it; the elevation along the line works off-road too. Make track adds the line as a track.
• Range ring — a circle of so many km or miles around a point, for your fuel range.
• What’s here — coordinates, elevation, the nearest section and where along it you are.

Warnings, Instructions & Auto POI

Open & Import

Open… (Ctrl+O) picks where from:

• Projects — planning in progress. Every section, route point, routing profile and map setting comes back as you left it. You can keep up to 10 projects; the dialog shows how many you have.
• GPX Manager — a finished .gpx, the files DMD² uses. Browse the folders and click a file to open it. The file in your GPX Manager is not changed until you save back to it.

If the plan on screen has unsaved changes, Open warns you first and offers Save first.

Import GPX… adds files to the plan you have open, from your GPX Manager or from this computer (drop them in or browse). Queue as many as you like, then Import:

• Routes in the file are recalculated: pick a routing profile for each, or Do Not Import Routes.
• Tracks come in as they are (Import Original Tracks), or Analyze & Merge Overlaps joins tracks that share the same stretches.
• Preview Import lists every track, route and waypoint found, so you can pick only the ones you want.

Opened from DMD² or a riding group (Edit with Planner, editing the group’s active route), the planner works on that one file: a coloured bar says what you are editing, and its save button writes straight back there.

Save, Save as… & Export GPX

Save (Ctrl+S) writes back to wherever the work already lives — its project, or the GPX Manager file it came from — and asks nothing more. Work that has never been saved opens Save as….

Save as… (Ctrl+Shift+S) asks where it should go:

The GPX Manager choice has its own Export Settings; their summary shows on the folded header, and your browser remembers them for next time:

• Apply Point Reduction — simplifies the lines (Douglas-Peucker) for a smaller file.
• Ignore Hidden Items — leaves out the sections and waypoints you hid. On by default here, so the file holds what you see on the map; the save message says how many hidden items were left out.
• Convert Routes to Tracks — every route goes into the file as a track, for apps and devices that handle tracks better.

A save straight back with no dialog — from Edit with Planner, for example — uses the settings you last chose here.

Export GPX… downloads the plan as a .gpx to this computer. Fill in the file name and, if you like, keywords, a description and the author’s name, email and link. It has the same three settings, set apart from the GPX Manager ones; here Ignore Hidden Items starts off, so hidden sections and waypoints are kept unless you turn it on.

Keyboard Shortcuts

On a Mac, Cmd works in place of Ctrl.