Runstoppable Blog

Elevation graphs seem to be back… hopefully that won’t happen again.

Last night we pushed out the 1.1 release of Runstoppable. This contains a bunch of features we’re excited about (elevation, internationalization, lots of groups improvements,etc), so we’re glad to finally let our users enjoy them. Unfortunately, the USGS elevation data source that we use (the same one used by the gmap-pedometer and others) seems to be down today. We’re still investigating the issue, and hopefully this will be fixed soon.

I guess we didn’t have any “luck of the Irish” today…

We hope you’ll enjoy Runstoppable 1.1.

I figure that I’ll take a break from development tonight to provide a brief update as to Runstoppable’s status and what’s coming in the near future.

Runstoppable has over a hundred users who have logged over 2100 miles so far. Considering that’s coming from almost no effort on our part, that’s pretty good. We want to work on features now and save the marketing for later.

Right now we’re working on the 1.1 release, which is very close to completion. This release will bring a lot of features that we wanted to fit in to 1.0, but just didn’t have time. This includes elevation graphs, a much-improved groups system, a “there and back” feature in the route editor, and many smaller features throughout the site.

I’m most excited about our elevation graphs, because I think they’re more useful and readable than those on other popular sites. Here’s an example (click the image for a larger picture):

Note how you’ll be able to track your mouse over the elevation graph in order to see the corresponding location on the route. We’re hoping that people will find this feature to be useful and interesting.

For the 1.2 release, our priorities are: continued improvement of the groups system, a much more powerful statistics system (more on this at a later date), shoe mileage tracking, data export, and a lot of behind-the-scenes changes that need to be made. I’m sure that there are things missing from the list, but that’s the basic idea for now. Following that release, the focus will be on the route editor, as there are a lot of improvements we’d like to make in that area.

As always, we look forward to your continued feedback.