We now support syncing with weight/body composition data, and displaying it in the Activity Center. You can get this data with a Tanita BC-1000 Body Composition Monitor, which is a scale that will do a wireless sync with a handful of Garmin GPS units, as well as an Ant+ USB stick plugged into your computer.
You can plan and track all of your maintenance within Ride with GPS. Check out this quick demonstration of these features.
We’re excited to release initial support for laps and splits, and this video walks you through everything you can currently do with this feature as a premium user.
Getting routes on your Garmin GPS unit has been made even easier for premium users. Just click “Garmin Write” and wait a moment. Watch this video to see how it works.
We’ve had many questions about how to delete control points, and doing so is fast and easy, but a bit unintuitive the first time. We’ll work on making it more intuitive, but in the meantime here is a video showing you how to remove control points while planning or editing a route.
Another video on route editing, this quick demo shows copying someone else’s route and performing edits on the cuesheet, POIs, and track.
We have had a lot of questions about editing routes. Here is a demo of how to use control points to adjust your route while planning or editing.
We’ve been busy fixing bugs and getting our 2.0 release stable and working well. Here is a quick demo of adding custom cue sheet entries:
We are excited to announce a significant milestone for us, the 2.0 release of ridewithgps.com.
Here is a brief overview of the changes:
The release process was fairly complex, and a bit bumpy. We stayed up all night Thursday night trying to get non-latin characters displaying correctly, and fixed a number of bugs Friday and today. Our new route planner is a bit slow in IE 7 and 8, and to those users we highly recommend the Google Chrome Frame, an easy-to-install addon that uses the fantastic Chrome engine inside of IE. This means you don’t have to switch away from IE to a different browser, and you get the primary benefits of using Google Chrome. This will speed up all of your web browsing if you are an IE user - especially viewing and planning routes on our site. That being said, performance is one of our foremost concerns. We want our site to be as fast as possible, so we will continue improving performance in the new planner.
To all the users who have contacted us over the past few days, with frustrations, congratulations, and bug reports: thank you! Your feedback has been invaluable.
If you have any feedback for us - feature ideas, bugs, or just want to chat - don’t hesitate to get in touch. You can reach us at info@ridewithgps.com or by clicking the Feedback link on ridewithgps.com.
I finally got around to writing up some detailed information about how to use a Garmin Edge series GPS bike computer for navigating a route plotted using our bike route planner – I compiled help articles for each of the popular Edge series bike computers. You can now understand which file format is the best for turn by turn navigation on your particular GPS unit.
The Edge 305/500 articles are works in progress. I will continue to improve the information in the articles with more detailed instructions, including pictures, in the coming weeks.
Additionally, if you don’t have City Navigator maps for your 605/705/800, I have provided instructions for downloading the excellent Open Street Map files for use as the base map on these devices. Enjoy!