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Can I just say how much I love this new innovation. Thank you xxxx

Genious thank you!

Who needs corporate support? Not us. Aw Fetch, ya big softie, ya

Awww that video made me sad then happy!! *something in my eye

That's brilliant, thank you.

Very cool. Couple points (there's always one, right?!) - if you drag, then the dragged point doesn't "follow roads". And Undo doesn't undo the dragged point, only the last added point. Or there could be a "delete point" option to delete the dragged point? Basically, like Google maps! Only better, cos it's Fetch?! G

Love that clip❤️

Route editing improvements - love it.

Liking the yellow plus symbols and the ability to wiggle things around, great touch. Can it be added to the edit option once a route has been saved?

I love the plotting route thingymajig, its the best, most intuitive one I have used yet. One useful addition would be able to toggle between miles and km (when you save the route it defaults to whatever you have on your profile?)

You can toggle in-play by clicking the distance button.

I *love* the idea of being able to adjust a route. Brilliant.

It would be really good to add extra points between existing ones and to delete points.

Ehhh-xcellent!

Best use i#ve found is to drag the current position (end) cross to where i want to go, avoiding having to toggle on and off the follow roads option.

Best use i#ve found is to drag the current position (end) cross to where i want to go, avoiding having to toggle on and off the follow roads option.

Love this clip

Really cool - but I've noticed what I'd count as a bug on the route editing. It seems that there are real time road closures information on route editing (which is cool for cars, but not so cool for runners) I plot a route, along a local road that is closed for roadworks for months - the A387 at Looe south of Sandplace (but open for runners as most roadworks are), and I have to plot the whole road manually... this is a real pain. Could this be changed please?

Done (it was running ninjas you wanted us to vote for? )

Done (sure I've done this before?!) Good luck! G

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Done, good luck!!

It tells me I've already voted.

Already voted, twice

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Jeepers, how many times do we have to vote for the same thing?? Done. Again.

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Bosh!

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Hmmm... shows me as already having voted. G'luck!

I thought I'd already done it and I had! Can I vote again? (vote early, vote often)

Done - again. Vote early and often.

Done. Voted for some other things as well, sometimes at semi-random (eg, well friends really enjoyed the Disney Half :-)).

I said "vote early, vote often" to someone around, I think, referendum time and they lost the head at me and accused "my side" of trying to fix the result against "ordinary" people.

I got an email a few weeks ago and voted back then #Iamagoodboy

Done

Me too - has this been going on for ages or did Fetch win it for 2016 and this is the 2017 vote?

I'm not entirely sure

All done I think maybe you have to vote again for the shortlist as I have voted before too.

I'd love to vote - but Work's internet security has decided that's not a safe site!
Later (if I haven't already?).

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Apparently there 85660 registered users of this site of which 276 viewed this blog about voting for the awards.

We love you for your modesty and breathless optimism Fetch but you have mouths to feed. So (SS) how about a temporary banner on every page giving information about the awards so that those lovely Fetchies who only log on to record training or look for a nearby race or want to talk about gardening/snow/groundhogs/counting/ can vote too? I want us to win.

Great idea D2!

I put it in the update, which got emailed out yesterday: http://www.fetcheveryone.com/eblasts/20170228/

Oh, brilliant! Any possibility that the lookup for Follow roads might be OSM in the future??

I thought that was going to be OS Maps (Ordnance Survey) - so hard to plan / show routes in the hills with Google maps. Presume Ordnance Survey are licensed? G

Not having used OSM before and without me having to go off and try to find the answer, can I ask here? OSM around me is showing a purple dashed line which generally follows the river but which happens to cross over my front garden as well - any ideas what this purple dashed line is and why it is in my garden? or should I ask this on OSM? P.S. apart from this (which I know is sod all to do with you Mr Fetch), it looks awesome!

Minardi - here's the key: openstreetmap.org

HG(rrr) - I think there'd definitely be fees involved.

Thank you fetch - it looks like my garden is divided between two different administrative depts!

Is there a noticeable difference in the quality of the grass?

Niiiiice. Not come across OSM before but already I can see plotting my local offroad routes will be better.

Excellent work We now have all the route mapping we need all in one place. The OSM mapping option is a fantastic tool that shows you so many trails and path's.

Could you put a link to the OSM key on the route map?

If you click the OSM logo in the bottom left of the map, I've added it into that popup.

Nice one, thanks

Wow! You have been busy.

Thank you Fetch, I like it!

That's great, I'll be able to be more accurate with a lot of my runs now, where before when I ran through the local park I guessed where the paths were now they show up. Cheers.

I'm going to have to look up how to add paths to the open streetmap as several nearby ones are missing.

Oohh, I like it

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
I plot all my runs and walks via the map (no fancy GPS watch, so this will make a huge difference to me
You are the best

That's superb thank you! and what FDNB said, I need to add some paths too.

Fantastic. A brilliant addition to the map functionality

That OSM is amazing! All those off road paths that you might never know where there..... Whoever suggested it is a genius

Thanks for this.

Actually, I've just looked and OpenStreetMap version of hills round us is really useful! It even has the names of the cleuchs (a Scots word that is underlined as misspelled by the wonderful version of Internet Explorer / Windows that I am running - so it must be good!) Great work Fetch, thanks. G

it's nice Ian, good improvement there, thanks....

Now if it could export a plotted route so I follow it on my garmin then I could consign Garmin Connect/gp mapometer to the bin.....

FurryHamster, if you save the route, you can then export it? Doesn't that do what you need?

brilliant....love the OSM

Sounds good!

Yes, that's a good theme and something everyone will be able to engage with
[I'll not be entering for obvious reasons, but I'd like to race as a bandit, as it were.]

Oh yes.

Good one!

That does sound good

How about limiting the number of words too?

Five words. Six, tops.

Planning on an upper and lower limit for word count.

Six and Five?

To make it more awkward, how about an upper limit of 5, and a lower limit of 6.

How about a compromise to 5 in the title, and 6 in the blog?

I like it

That would be the 80 yard race at primary school, wherein I lacked the stamina to jog more than half way. Or possibly an egg-and-spoon, three-legged, or sack race.

Mine is going back a bit. Like to the 70s

A route editor would be great; love the new size and a button for follow roads rather than the tiddly tick box. Any chance of a toggle switch to put your fetchpoint map on and off when you are plotting a route?

fetchpoint map overlay would be awesome

if you use Streetview, you cannot return to the map. The Grid/Follow Roads buttons are sitting over the Google maps buttons.

+1 for fetchpoint overlay please

and another +1 for being able to plot over Fecthpoint map

Oh yes another vote for fetchpoint map overlay

Oh, if you're taking requests... OpenStreetMap!

Much better, with the undo button and the mileage displayed over the map on my phone. Fetchpoint overlay would be great.

I take it we will still be able to upload training in tcx files (per the previous blogs). It's the only format the Fitbit app has.

I like it - will try it out on my phone as that was really frustrating last week.

Nice work

Looks nice. If you press the out and back button before plotting any points, it goes wrong (albeit very undramatically)

Looks nice, in a similar to before, but better kind of a way, thank you!
I'd second StuHolmes' OpenStreetMap request, I would really love that too.

I've fixed the bug with Streetview. If you switch to streetview, the buttons at the top fade out, and then fade back in when you revert. Thanks for all the suggestions folks.

It is definitely better than the old version on my phone. One issue that still causes problems is that if your 'click' is near a point on the map that pops up - like a tourist attraction or just a pub - the map assumes that is where you are wanting to go. This was causing big problems with my mapping in NYC last week - enlarging the scale sometimes helps but if you aren't careful the map can log a route to a random place if you don't move your fingers quickly! Having the undo button at the top is much better

Is there any way of turning off the names of businesses etc ? They get in the way too much - especially those with long names - and if you click on them by mistake the route goes to them.

Not really used the old one, so just plotted this morning's run using both - much prefer the size of map view on the new one, I plotted it straight away with no errors. Took longer with the old one, due to the display (both on laptop using Windows OS).

Are you able to amend anybody else's routes? I'm thinking of the scenario if it relates to a race where the course has changed.

Ah, I like this. Neat and clean, the map size is much easier to use. But, like Rosehip, the business/location names seemed awfully sensitive and it was annoying having to continually Undo and negotiate the route around the text.

I will see if it's a configurable layer.

The drop-down "Map" button isn't working for me.

Should be working now, but I'm actively coding on that page at the moment, so it's a bit unstable

Aw, shucks!!

I'll try to get a closer shot next time I'm out that way. Will give me something to do

If you get much close you'll need a wide-angle lens!! 😂

Apparently they are 247m long, 84m wide, and 55m tall That's 662 metres around the perimeter at least. I wonder if they'd let us do a 24hr race around the outside

my dad worked there......many many moons ago

Reminds me of going to school - I passed these very day for about 5 years!

I'm told the hangars are so high that they sometimes get clouds in the top.

I'm sure I've used the Duplicate button twice myself. It's an outrage that it's been removed, an OUTRAGE I say!
In all seriousness, I like it, a definite improvement

I use the duplicate button too. I do like the cleaner look of the new layout though

Lol! First thing I was going to say was how much I loved the Duplicate feature and how devastated I am that it's gone. But beaten to it. Lots of good improvements, well done Fetch. Ads are fine. Everyone knows the interwebs is ads. Tis life. G

The duplicate button is back

Except it's called the shorter 'Copy' now.

I was going to say that all 5 users of the duplicate button we're going to post comments on here, but it looks like they already did
The best thing about this site is that you make an obvious effort to make it easy and nice to use for as many people as possible. You wouldn't believe just how rare that seems to be!

Much better - well done and thank you Fetch (and I wouldn't have known there even was a Duplicate button of you hadn't mentioned it )

What Fleecio said.

Not sure if it's what you are working on, but if I try to manually plot a route on my phone, and make the map big enough to see the roads I'm planning running on, I lose the "undo" and "out and back" etc buttons, and find it hard to scroll the screen off the map and back to the "outer" bit without adding more points on the map that need undone. Is that just me?

BTW - I think you may pick up a few more members/site hits since RW have "upgraded" their website/forums. It's a mess over there............

Feel free to point them in this direction

I don't like that the new version seems to round up to 1 decimal place instead of 2, other than that it looks spiffing!

Thank you kindly for my gin. I am testing it now. Very nice it is too. And I feel better than I was when you visited, which is lucky, because I felt pretty ratshit then.

Functionality better. Asthetics better. What not to like? (apart from the xtra ad, obvs )

Functionality better. Asthetics better. What not to like? (apart from the xtra ad, obvs )

I will miss the TCX option, but I can use GPSies to convert GPX to TCX ....

Nice one.

I have exactly the same problems as Nessie with my phone - it nearly went out of the window a couple of times in NYC as I was trying to create my walking routes, if I wasn't careful I ended up in the East River...

I'm sure I like it. All makes perfect sense. TCX is dead. Copy a route by downloading the Gpx and uploading it again!

Bluffer's guide to cayke, obv.

Blog about the last book they read? As to picking a winner it has struck me that with the Christmas blogs some people really write from the heart but someone who blogged (for example) 'I am writing a blog entitled sprouts so I can be in the draw for a prize' (and I don't know if that actually happened) would also get into the draw. Maybe a certain number of comments would have to be reached to get into the draw?

Tricky It's a very good prize. I happen to have reason to know this
I like BBL's idea of people's chances of winning being increased by them putting in a bit of effort. At the same time, it seems contrary to the spirit of the site to reward someone just for being a good/prolific runner or for being a good/prolific writer. It would be better if everyone started with an equal chance. And presumably bringing new potential members into the site is important too.
World's Biggest Bluffer competition? Most imaginative lie about something that (never)happened to you on a run, maybe accompanied by a photo?

I second that idea about a proper blog. So rather than just 'running' what about very specific topic related to running or swimming or cycling. Bluffers guide to XC or goggles or pacing during club runs 😆 or when to pee defore a race. That sort of thing. Whatever the blogger chooses.

Pick a winner via the vote for this blog button. Maybe a deathmatch 😆

the best fake news blog?

maybe some book reviews of other books would be useful blogs for folk to write.

How about a Blog competition about Bluffers guide to writing a Blog? Winner is whoever doesn't disappear up their own insides trying to unravel it.....

A bluffer's Guide to Fetcheveryone.com

I assume from the above that the prize is a bluffer's guide to annoying your GP.

A bluffers guide to meeting strangers off t'internet

How about every entrant gets an entry (or maybe 10 entries?), and each comment or "suggest for highlight" their blog post generates gets them another entry, and each time they comment or suggest for highlight on someone else's post gets them another entry.
That way you are giving everyone a chance, but people get extra chances for interacting more.
(sorry if that wasn't coherent enough!)

The ad thing sounds like a fab idea - I really hope it works out
(not at all happy to be missing Fetchpoint this year)

sounds good, hope you get plenty of people wanting to advertise with you!

Fish n Chips Easy does it lad!

Rather cool that.

Looking forward to the support from Fetchpoint

I'm going to CLS in March and am ridiculously excited. I doubt I'll get a free hat but I can't wait to try everything out. The food looks good!

Speed Pilates is funny!

THAT was ab attack

I'm watching this from La Santa on the last day of the 4 stage MTB Challenge. Looking at prices to come back at a different time of year.

It's still funny, whatever it's called!

And the fabulous morning gymnastics music as the soundtrack

I'm pleased was mentioned.

Thanks useful for holiday planning!

I'd love to do this but not sure that I could convince himself that doing over 100 miles on a Sunday morning to get there for 9.45 would be a good idea

I was wondering about the Fetch 'get togethers' that you had tried to set up previously only the other day - the ones that were going to be based around parkruns/pubs. I am glad to see the idea is still going even if I don't think I'll make this one. Would like to get involved in one at some point though and happy to help/advise on pubs if the selected event is in my part of the world

If you do fancy joining us, there's also a thread for it where you can add your name to the list of people wanting lunch - just so I can warn the pub how many of us will be arriving
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=59505

Will be at Ashby 20 on that day but I hope you get a few Fetchies in attendance.

I would have lived to but am already doing the 7 pools 10k that day.

Should be a good day though if previous Fetch meets are anything to go by!

This is a fantastic idea like the old days but unfortunately will miss the Draycote

Would be good except that it is the same day as the Coventry half marathon. I'm already registered for that. You could always wave us off at the 9am start then rush over to Draycote (~30min drive).