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Mark Worthington Friday 24 Jan 2025 21:51:00
Hi Julien,
Thank you for your straight and open statements regarding Plotaroute and the way forward. It's a pity it's taken nearly a year to get clarity; I'm sure Plotaroute has lost a lot of users over that time, and no doubt there are many disillusioned who are still here.
2025, a new start ....
Mark
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Julien Plotaroute Friday 24 Jan 2025 09:08:44
Dear Plotaroute Community,
First of all, the whole team wishes you all the best for the new year. We hope you'll find plenty of chances to enjoy your outdoor adventures and make the most of Plotaroute and Visorando.
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Julien, the newest member of the Visorando team. My role involves managing content and providing user support in both German and English. Therefore I will be working on the English Visorando website, as well as Plotaroute.
I joined the team in December and since then have been learning more about my role. Part of this was learning more about Plotaroute, which I wasn’t a user of before. I’m not an expert on all things technical, but I will do my best to answer all the questions in the forum and if I can’t get an answer, I’ll ask the team.
I’ve also been reviewing the messages posted since Visorando’s acquisition of Plotaroute. While we aimed to maintain the previous level of communication and support, I recognize that we’ve fallen short in this area. I want to apologize for this and I will strive to do better in 2025.
To kick things off, we want to tackle some important questions about the future of Plotaroute that have been on many minds:
One of the reasons Visorando bought Plotaroute is to use it's route planner on Visorando. We aim to implement this and translate it into French and German this year. We also want to add several Plotaroute features to Visorando, to add those features for the current Visorando users, but also to make the Plotaroute Community feel at home. For example the Widget and OS maps are available. We want a Club section to be available soon and will also work on Collections and Challenges. Furthermore, you'll have the ability to link your Garmin or Suunto accounts in the future.
Does this mean that Plotaroute will disappear? No! Plotaroute and Visorando will coexist. There are no plans to totally merge the two entities/websites and you will be able to use Plotaroute without using Visorando if you choose to do so.
As for new developments on Plotaroute itself, we want to be upfront: the Visorando team cannot pursue developments for both the Plotaroute and Visorando brands simultaneously. Which means that there will be no further developments on the Plotaroute website, but we will keep enhancing the route planner that will be available on Visorando. In other words, if you want to use the route planner as is, you will be able to do so on Plotaroute. If you want to use the route planner with its future developments, you’ll find it on Visorando.
Is the Requested features thread still active? Yes! We’ll use those suggestions to improve the route planner on Visorando. We encourage you to continue posting and voting to help us create new features.
Regarding the Plotaroute web app, the situation is similar to the website. While it will remain available, there won’t be any further development on it.
As for the Routepilot app, we previously announced that it was nearly ready for release. Unfortunately, we've realized that more work is needed than we anticipated, leading us to cancel this app project. Our focus is the Visorando app, which already includes functional navigation. The interface is different, but we created the link from Plotaroute to Visorando to make the transition as seamless as possible.
We also acknowledge that the monthly route engine updates have been less frequent than before; however, we plan to change that. Expect more updates in the future, which will be beneficial for both Plotaroute and Visorando.
We've also looked into the Facebook link issue. Sadly, a solution hasn't been found on our end yet.
This doesn’t answer all the questions, but I hope it’s a good start.
I will try to get to the unanswered questions of the forum that are still relevant and will examine every new post moving forward.
Thank you for staying with us in 2024 and also for sticking through this lengthy announcement! =)
