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Finding off-road riding is my focus, but it is always difficult to predictably find legally ridable terrain. What are the current efforts to effectively identify off-road terrain? I am in the northeast and would like to ride ATV and snow-mobile terrain as well (where it is open).

The best option currently in REVER is to check out the Off-road Areas in Discover and also select the Land Use map.

Is there any way so that “reverse route”switches sides of the freeway when you return?

If you place waypoints on a particular side of the interstate and you select reverse route, those points will remain on that side for Follow Route Line. If you reverse the route and select Get Directions the route will be updated for the direction of travel.

Best tips for finding good roads if you live in a boring place and no Butler roads are nearby. Is twisty road search the best option?

Twisty Roads would be the quickest option. You can also join or start a local community and check out where other riders are riding.

Note...when I use Follow Route Line - I am spending too much time looking at the phone to ensure I am following route line....Just this past weekend we missed lots if turns because the Zoom level kept changing and we weren't always watching it.

Thank you for the feedback. You can set a custom zoom level. Pinch to zoom and then re-center your location. FYI, we are working on a feature to alert you when you go off track while using Follow Route Line.

Any suggestions for converting routes recorded in another app called TrailTracker that is no longer available through the App Store? App is gone but I still have the data from many rides. Had it's own propritary file format, of course. Would love to be able to import routes into Rever but not sure how I could convert those files.

You can import GPX/KML/KMZ files into REVER. For any other file type you may need to find the right conversion software.

Can you mark speed trap locations?

When using TxT directions you can report incorrect directions, confusing audio prompts, illegal routes, road closures, poor route quality, or positioning errors. Speed traps are not currently an option with our 3rd party mapping provider, Mapbox.

I really want to use REVER with BRP GO on my CanAm Spyder. Any improvements being made to the interface? Or is it a BRP issue?

Some functionality has been restored with the latest app releases. We will be taking a closer look at adding more functionality over the winter months.

Is there a way to connect are rides on a single map? I road 51 days in a row this summer and over 15k miles. Would like to be able to show the entire trip if possible.

Currently, merging rides is not a feature in REVER, but you can export your GPX files into a program that can combine them. We use Garmin’s BaseCamp.

I use Rever as a legacy project and write about each big ride leg. The format has very poor readability (not that many people are reading it). It won't accept paragraph spacing or other formatting features to make it an easier reading experience. Any suggestion?

We are looking at adding formatting to ride descriptions, but currently you can format a Community Description and add links. You can also create a Blog embed code for rides from share options, to make it easy to link your rides to a webpage.

If I quit the application or have to restart my phone mid ride, how do I pick up where I left off? For multi day rides is it best to leave the app running to track the entire ride?

Currently, when you close out of REVER your ride will be ended. We are planning to add the ability to resume a ride even if you quit or accidentally close the app. For multi-day rides we recommend saving each day when you finish riding.

Can we change the waypoint icon appearance?

The waypoint icon cannot be changed, however you can make it less visible by selecting the Outdoors map style.

I see reverse route on the app. Is there a reverse route on the online version?

Reserve route is not an option on the web.

Wrt: routing only on paved road tested in app and it routed me on a dirt road, who do I reach out to share this with you?

If this is a Butler route you can reach out to info@butlermaps.com. Otherwise please send this info to support@rever.co

Why such limited content in Texas?

Texas is a big state and there are many rides included in Discover. Ultimately, the best way to find where people are riding locally is to join a community.

Can I delete a tracked ride without saving it?

Yes, click finish and scroll to the bottom and select delete ride.

Not all my tracked rides in the list show up when I go to map view

That is correct. Only the rides on each page will show up. You can save your favorites and display up to 9 on the map view.

I have a comment. When I import a gpx file to look at in Rever I find that the milage is correct but the total time is often too high, by as much as an hour. This happens with most gpx routes imported. if the same gpx file is viewed in other applications like my Garmin Zumo XT it is correct. why is this?

We’d have to see an example to answer this. Feel free to reach out at support@rever.co

Can I isolate Challenges to a specific area?

If you’re referring to the Challenge search bar it will return results based on the challenge title.

How can I save favorite locations

Are you asking how to save favorite routes or something like offline maps of your favorite areas?

Kyle, I want to save my home address , and other locations, so i don't have to type in every time a create a route

Thanks for clarifying. Currently there isn't a way to save waypoints or POIs. You can choose Current location when you create a route.

Do our tracked rides inform the Butler map data?

They do not, but you can reach out to Butler at info@butlermaps.com

When I design a route, During the ride Rever tries to reroute the route to the shortest route - how can I stop the rerouting.

This only happens when you are using Turn by Turn directions. TxT will recalculate if you get off your route or miss a waypoint. The best way to stay on track is by including up to 25 waypoints.

# 1issue - "Follow Route Line" and "Get Directions" - I wantTurn by Turn navigation on my Follow Route Line.

The logic that goes into providing live turn by turn directions doesn't allow for a static "Follow Route Line" style navigation. It will navigate based on the waypoints.

May be off-topic, but when planning a route through the web interface, why can't the list of waypoints show all locations? I think it's only three shown and this makes it really hard to insert additional locations into the list.

You can show all waypoints on the top toolbar. Click the waypoint button (furthest to the right) to view all.

Will it work with Android Auto?

We are chomping at the bit to get on Android Auto, but currently REVER isn't compatible.

Are there any plans to have Android Auto compatibility?

This is on our radar.

I created a route and after stopping overnight, It wanted me to go back to the beginning and start over. Could not get it to work. How do I manage this?

Currently you can edit your route to start from your current location. After you find your route > click the ellipsis and edit ride > delete waypoints you’ve already passed and add your current location as the first waypoint.

I have trouble loading pictures after my ride. I select and import them but the don't appear in the ride..

Make sure you have photos allowed in app permissions

I create a lot of routes using the website, all of them have twisty turned on, and hwy turned off. When I load them on the phone for TBT, those options are often turned off. Is there anyway to keep those settings when transferring (or set the mobile app to always exclude hwy)?

Currently there is not a way to preserve the route with Twisty Roads or Avoid highway if there aren't other waypoints to guide turn by turn directions. We’ll continue to look for solutions, but ultimately we are limited by our 3rd party mapping provider (Mapbox).

So it seems that when I plan a route, I can't "Get Directions" and be sure it will go there.

Get directions will route you to each waypoint sequentially, but it may reroute if you take a detour or place waypoints too far apart.

I have just visted a lot of the roads in south east how do I inform Butler of roads not as good as shown

You can reach out to info@butlermaps.com

Who would we send new Butler route road recommendations to?

You can reach out to info@butlermaps.com

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Doesn't answer my Q unfortunately. I want to see my list of waypoints between 'starting' and 'ending' on the left hand side so it's easier to move waypoints throughout the list. For example, if I have a big trip with 10 waypoints and I add another way right in the middle of that list, it's pain to try and float the 'new' waypoint into the list

We're currently working on redesigning that panel.

I would like to have a Private planned route that I can share with someone within Rever. I don't want it public, it's really just for me and a friend. Maybe after I ride it, I can make it public, but I should be able to share a private route.

You can export the GPX track and send it to a friend. That will allow you to keep the route private.

I think you have changed this slightly but it was annoying after creating and saving a route, then I am past the original start point and when bringing up the saved route, it would direct me back to the original start. Then I would have to modify the route. Can you now tell it to direct from current location to the nearest point of the saved route?

Currently you cannot start a planned route from your current location without editing the route. But we'll share this with the dev team.

Can you think about getting in on the google maps api to get closed road, traffic, accidents , etc ?

We haven’t talked about using the Google API for that recently, but I’ll look into it. We do have a traffic layer you can overlap on top of all our existing map styles though. That is provided by our mapping provider, MapBox, but I’m not sure how that traffic data is sourced.

Are there any plans for an iPad specific app? When I travel I typically travel light and will take an iPad for my computing needs. The web interface for REVER is not quite usable on Safari on an iPad. Moreover I would love to use the Apple Pencil on the route planning map to create my own route.

We don’t have plans for an iPad specific app at this time.

I love the app 98 percent of the gold rides are bang on. I feel it's bad for the app and Butler when a road is poor. I have submitted these to Butler with no response

If you contact us at support@rever.co we can update or remove them from the Discover tab.

Using Turn by Turn directions, how do I skip a waypoint, or delete a point i passed?

There is a double arrow in the lower right corner of the screen. Click that to skip a waypoint.

Comment, If I create a planned route, and select “Offline” on my Android, but later edit the same route, keeping the same name, I noticed that the “Offline” is no longer selected. This burned me this weekend as I was riding in area w/o cell service, not a big deal, but since I forgot to “re-offline” my modified map I did not have a map to use with GPS. Maybe you could have an option to set all planned routes to “Offline”?

Thanks for the feedback. Saving rides for Offline does use storage space on the phone so this isn't a current default, but we'll share this with the dev team.

How often is the BDR maps updated? last attempt at MABDR failed to take into consideration several off season land closures and some of the property owners are rather aggressively protecting thier properties

These are updated as BDR informs us of route changes. Reach out to routeinfo@ridebdr.com for road closures and they will inform us.

I just became aware of the RLink device, if I already have a Rever subscription and purchase an RLink is there an additional subscription I have to purchase to use the RLink on top of the Rever subscription I have?

REVER no longer supports RLink Devices.

I also track my rides with Relive as the replay is much nicer than what REVER offers at this point. Any plans to improve the REVER replay.

This is on our radar. What do you like about Relive's replay?

Relive has a much better replay or the ride. Options to change sound, layout, speed, and other choices. The playback and graphics are very smooth and fine.

Thanks! We'll share this with the dev team.

Can you get turn by turn when uploading a GPX file?

Yes you can as long as there are 25 waypoints or less.

It would be great if there was a place a person could store roads that they have ridden before using Rever to share with others and amongst communities. It would be nice if a club could share rides they have been on. I use favorites to do it now

You can create a community in REVER and upload GPX routes or create new rides to share with your community.

This isn’t really question, but more of a suggestion or feature request. I often take multi-day rides, and I’d really like to be able to start my route on day one and pick it up each day, creating one long route. As of now, I have to create multiple routes and labels them per day.

Thanks for the feedback. We have a resume ride feature on our Radar.

My wife says she sees all my previous rides with live ride. Any way to just see current days ride?

Hey, that sounds like a bug. I’ll look into it and see whats going on.

Example: You start your route with Turn by Turn Directions with good cell service but along the way you need to skip a waypoint but at that point you have lost cell service. How can you complete the skip with no cell service? Or is it possible at all?

You can skip a waypoint with the fast forward arrow icon at the bottom right. Turn by Turn directions and skip waypoints will work with mixed results when you don't have cell service. For short periods of time and distance Predictive caching will allow these features to work, but the longer you go without service the less effective they will be.

trying to set up a privacy zone. It asks for a name, when I type it in the keyboard stays on screen so that I'm unable to save it.. keyboard covers the save button..

Sorry, Al. We have that fixed in the next iOS release which we are hoping to get out late this week or early next week.

I lead group rides of 15-20 riders every month. I have created routes in Rever and attempted to use the turn-by-turn option to follow the route. No luck so far, just goes in circles and will not follow the route. Also, the audio guidance is not desired. How do I turn it off? The 'line' option does work but following such a small dot along a route is very distracting. Made several wrong turns. Can the scale be adjusted to see more detail?

It sounds like you may not be physically passing through the first waypoint on your route. When this happens, just click the skip waypoint button at the bottom right.

Ultimately, Follow Route Line is a better option for leading group rides as it will be a set track and everyone will be navigating the same route. Turn by turn directions can be recalculated and may result in riders taking detours, which creates a challenge for a sweeper if you use one

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If i quit the application during the middle of the ride, it usually takes me back to the beginning of the ride when i restart. Is there a way to pick up at my actual physical location?

Rever via Apple Car Play only shows current location and does not follow a route. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known issue?

Make sure you have your route saved to Favorites and you can access it in CarPlay. We're also taking a look at CarPlay compatibility after the last update.

Any plans to add a feature to auto start and end a ride tracking? Too often I have to stop 15 minutes into the ride to turn on tracking.

This isn’t on the radar right now, but we’ll share this with the dev team.

Hey Kyle, any updates on the route total time fluctuations we’re working on?

Not yet. I have our devs taking a look to see if this is a REVER issue or Mapbox.

Can I send a map that has issues?

Yes. Send it to support@rever.co and let me know what's going on.

Are there any plans of allowing you to add friends to a recorded ride so that only 1 person has to record it? Kind of like Strava does

We are all cyclists and avid Strava users, so I’m familiar with the feature. It's definitely something I want us to do eventually!