7 posts tagged with "Announcement"

Until this week the Adventure basemap was a FastGIS style on top of stock OpenMapTiles tiles. Everything the style could learn, it had learned; what was left was what the tiles never carried. So now we bake the tiles ourselves, with a profile of our own, and the map shows harbours, gates on forest roads and track grades. It also stopped carrying thousands of points of interest it could never draw.

The Adventure basemap has always answered the one question every other map makes you click for: what is that road made of. This week it learned to answer the rest of a rider's questions without being asked — where the ferry runs, which name is the pass, where the town stops, and which badge to keep when two collide. Four passes, each checked on real pixels before it shipped.

EpicRide has always opened on a map. You arrived, a route planner loaded, and whatever you actually came for was somewhere behind it. From today the desktop client opens on a Dashboard of what you are riding, and the planner is a place you go.

Behind that change is a new object: an event. A time, a roster, and the library records you ride.

EpicRide's Library used to be two tabs and a scroll: everything you had saved, fetched in one go and filtered in the browser. Today it becomes a primitive — one component that is the Library page, the picker inside the planner and the roadbook editor, and the save form everywhere something can be saved. And rally roadbooks move into it: a saved book is now a library record like a route or a ride, so it can be shared, exported, searched and linked to the track it came from.

For a month the roadbook program has been building its foundations: a data model that carries the official FIM/FIA structure, an exporter that real rally readers accept, a symbol library drawn glyph by glyph, a print module measured off the FIA's own Diagram 1. Today the last and largest piece ships: a full roadbook editor in EpicRide, and with it the whole pipeline — from any GPX to a printed, regulation-shaped book — is live.

Epona is the Gaulish goddess of horses and riders — the one deity the Roman cavalry adopted wholesale and carried across the empire. Protector of anyone on the move.

It seemed like the right name for the thing in your tank bag.

If you've ever used GRASS GIS, you know it's one of the most powerful spatial analysis platforms ever built. Decades of algorithms, impeccable accuracy, a passionate community. You also know that getting it installed, configured, and running on a new machine can be a bit of an adventure — and sharing your work with a colleague who doesn't have GRASS set up? That's a whole afternoon gone.

FastGIS started as a personal itch-scratcher for exactly that problem.