We are ecstatic to bring you a new RunningMap. A ton of work has gone into designing, building and testing this new version. It has been a labour of love.

The first thing you will notice is the new look. The design comes from the genius and talent of Sarah Ramsden. We couldn’t be happier with the result! And seeing our site on her portfolio page among clients the likes of Mercedes, Hyatt, Dell and Lexus does not hurt either. In addition to being a star graphic designer, she is one mean runner.

The tool bar along the top has been replaced with a tabbed nav bar down the left side. This was done to accommodate the more complex new and future feature set.

The biggest new feature is User Accounts. When you log in and save a route you will see it appear in the “My Routes” view. New routes can be labeled as Private or Public. In “My Routes”, you can delete existing routes. If you have a previously saved permalink, send us the ID number and your username and we will add it to your account.

The Search Results view has been improved to show more information about the routes. You can now change the way they are sorted by clicking a column header.

With this launch we are introducing advertisements to help support hosting and development costs. We have partnered with Lat49 who have developed an innovative method for supplying ads that are applicable to the map being viewed.

Thanks to the many people who signed up for the test version! All your data will be available in this release version. And a big thanks to all who have sent in suggestions and bug reports. Its you who make this the best darn sports mapping tool on the web!

(We have a limited supply of tech long-sleeve “keep your distance” t-shirts for $30 plus shipping)

ver 2.9.14

Elevation above the 49th parallel (Canada) in North America is now working again.

I have made a few more tweeks to point functionality and distance text color.

Version 2.9.5 has a few new things.

The biggest new feature is the Photo point of interest marker. Click on the camera icon and a dialog box will appear. You have two options: 1) enter a URL for a picture hosted somewhere; or 2) select a public photo from your Flickr account (http://www.flickr.com is free to use). Runningmap will not store your photos, just a URL to them.

Another thing that is new is the second row or buttons has been made into icon buttons with tool tip rollovers. This allows for more descriptive instructions. There are many other minor tweeks and fixes.

Unfortunately elevation outside of the USA is still unavailable. We are working on that.

ver 2.7.54

I fixed a bug where the mileage text did not change to white when in Satellite view. Two new features:

1) clicking on a elevation point on the elevation chart will cause the map to center on the corresponding marker on the map.

2) if a point on the elevation chart is red and the points to the right have updated, then this point has probably recieved bad data. Also, if an elevation point is at an elevation of 0 and is obviously wrong, this point also recieved bad data. Clicking on the point will requery for the elevation of this point.

version 2.7.38

We have corrected a couple bugs that were causing the routes to “drift” if you dragged the map then changed view type, or when resizing the browser window after drawing a route. It was a redraw issue that appeared after Yahoo! made some changes on their end.

We also optimized the route routines further. Long routes will redraw more quickly when you zoom or change view type.

I noticed that the application was getting sluggish after a couple hundred points so I added a feature where you can toggle on/off the line shadows and distance text. The line shadows in particular are a cpu hog. I also optimized the drawing routines a little.

The application allows up to 500 points to be plotted. I am working on optimizing this further.