bikerouter.deBikerouter just received a maintenance update.
But I didn’t dare to release it completely without new features. So here it is: No-go areas can now be drawn as polygons (previously only circles).
Have a nice weekend and have fun planning your route!
Gräwwel@bikerouter …coole Sache
Montag@bikerouter mir gefällt die neue Funktion um Rundtouren zu erstellen sehr gut, vielen Dank!
Hans Ulrich Niedermann@bikerouter It appears the update also comes with a few new bugs 😄
1. How does one draw a circular no go area now? Clicking/tapping on the circular no go area tool and then clicking/tapping on the map does not draw anything.
2. Both no go area tools (circular and polygonal) have the same hotkey N. Pressing that key appears to always select the circular no area tool, because clicking/tapping on the map then does nothing (see above).
3. The new tool submenu is only shown partially if the screen or browser window is not tall enough. On my tablet, tapping on any of the no go area tools is impossible now in landscape mode. The bottom half of the submenu is completely beyond the bottom of the browser window.
4. The new submenu now requires two clicks/taps per tool use instead of one. E.g. removing the last 8 waypoints now needs 16 clicks/taps. Used to be 8 clicks/taps, and it still is 8 Z key presses, but key presses usually are unavailable on mobile touch devices. This is more an annoyance than a bug, though.
5. Slightly confusingly, the very different tool submenu and the Customize Profile tool use two almost (but not quite) identical spanner icons. This is not a real bug either.
Impressively though, bikerouter.de is so far ahead of everything else that even when I have to work around a few such bugs, it still is the best route planning tool out there.
@ndim Thanks for the detailed feedback.
I'll look into it and you can expect fixes for the problems described in items 1 and 3 very soon.
Regarding item 2: "N" toggles between the modes, so just press it twice to select polygon mode.
Regarding item 4: you can tap the waypoints on the map to remove them – way faster than using the button.
Regarding item 5: The state of the UI is in flux currently, expect further changes in the next weeks which will improve the situation.
@bikerouter Thank **you** for your awesome work on bikerouter.de!
Regarding item 2: I have tried following your suggestion of pressing N more than once. However, regardless of how many times I press the N key (both on the tablet with Chrome and on the PC with Firefox), I always get only the "No-Go Area: Circle" tool. The new little mode bar in the center of the top always indicates that, and click/tap on the map still does not do anything.
Regarding item 4: I will need to work on improving my aim then to have my finger always hit every waypoint on the first try.
@ndim It looks like I need to take a closer look at Item 2 then. It works fine for me, but I can't rule out that there might still be a bug lurking somewhere.
Item 4 will resolve itself with a future update, but I can't say anything more about that right now ;-)
@bikerouter
2026.17 fixes item 2 for my test cases. Thank you!
The new issue now is that in some circumstances, I can now draw both route points and no go area points at the same time (both for circular and polygonal no go areas).
I am still trying to figure out how exactly that happens. Might require the proper combination of clicking on the route point tool and typing N.
la_li_lu_le_loIs it possible to change the "on click" behavior of the location search panel?
Whenever I want to search for an address, I first click on the looking glass and then click the text input field (just to make sure) and then the search thing closes again, even though i think it should just stay "focused", if that makes sense.
It happens more often then I like to admit 🤣
I love Bikerouter, btw. It is **way** better than Komoot or the Garmin stuff I have used before. Thank you so much for investing your time into this project!!!
@la_li_lu_le_lo Refactoring the search feature is planned for one of the next releases. It annoys me too, permanently.
@bikerouter awesome! Thank you!
Jan Götze@bikerouter Even though it’s labeled as just a maintenance update, this is yet another great update! Once again, the solution was implemented before I even realized there was a problem: polygonal no-go areas. Great work on this platform I use every day!
One question: how do you hide the route now? The “m” button only hides the additional information on the route.
@deelite 🤔 "M" should work as expected. Can you try in a different browser to confirm it's a real bug?
@bikerouter OK, im Chrome all works as expected. It seems to be a problem in Vivaldi, which I use.
@deelite Here's an improved version of your sentence:
I'm a Vivaldi user too, and it works fine for me. Maybe you have an extension enabled that's interfering?
@bikerouter OK. When I import a gpx as a route: it works. When I start planning a fresh, short route: it works. I'll try to find out when it stops working.
@bikerouter I think I got it. It's not working when I use bikerouter as a PWA (Vivaldi). When I use bikerouter in a regular browser window, M works as expected. But that's only been the case since the 2026.15 update. Before that, it worked just fine.
@deelite Ok, that's interesting. I've never even tried using it that way, but I'll investigate of course! Thanks for spending your time debugging this ❤️