Adding stops along the way
A route with a start and an end is fine for getting somewhere. Most good rides aren’t like that — they go past the lookout, through the pub, over the range. Via stops are how you tell the app which way you want to go.
Four stops in order. Each via stop is labelled VIA above its name, so there’s never any doubt which one is the destination.
Each row has a drag handle for reordering and an × for removing it. The destination stays at the bottom no matter how many stops you add in between.
Three ways to add one
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The + Add via stop row
It sits under the stop list once you have both a start and a destination. Tapping it opens search — find the place, tap it, and it goes into the list. A padlock on the row means it isn’t available on your plan.
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Press and hold on the map
Hold anywhere and choose Add Waypoint from the panel. Handy when the place you want doesn’t have a name worth searching for — a corner, a bridge, a turn-off.
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Tap-to-place from the result card
After a preview, the card offers Add stop on map. Tap it and the sheet gets out of the way, a strip appears at the bottom reading Tap the map to add a stop, and the next tap on the map drops the stop there. Cancel on that strip backs out without adding anything.
You don’t need to tap Preview Route again — the route redraws itself as soon as the stop lands. Setting a destination behaves differently: that one waits for you to press Preview.
Where a new stop goes
A new via stop is always inserted before the destination, at the end of the existing via stops. So adding them in the order you’ll ride them gives you the route you expect, with no reordering needed.
If you haven’t set a destination yet, a stop added this way goes on the end of the list — there’s nothing to insert it in front of.
The limit is ten stops
That’s a start, up to eight via stops, and a destination. Try to add a ninth via stop and the app tells you Maximum 8 waypoints reached and leaves the list alone.
When the list reaches ten, the + Add via stop row and the Add stop on map button both disappear rather than sitting there failing. If they’ve gone missing, count your stops.
Reordering
Press and hold the drag handle on the right of any row and slide it up or down. The list renumbers itself as you go, and the route clears so you can see the new order before committing to it — tap Preview Route to work it out again.
If you set some legs to Adventure and others to Road, dragging any stop into a new position puts all of them back to Road. Nothing warns you at the time. Get the order right first, then set the per-leg profiles — not the other way around.
Removing a stop
Tap the × at the right-hand end of the row. The stop goes, the route clears, and you preview again. Removing the destination leaves the rest of the list in place, so you can send the same ride somewhere new without rebuilding it from scratch.
If a stop won’t route
The commonest failure with multi-stop trips is a stop that isn’t near a road. You’ll see:
Waypoint is not near a road — move it to a road and try again.
Usually it’s a tap-to-place stop that landed in bush, water, or a paddock. Remove it, zoom in a little further, and put it on the road you actually mean to ride. The app routes between road points, so a stop that isn’t on one has nothing to aim at.
A stop added from search carries the name you picked. A stop dropped on the map starts as coordinates and fills in a name a moment later, once the app has looked it up. Out in remote country it may stay as coordinates — that works perfectly well as a stop.
Where the stops end up
The whole list travels with the route. Export GPX writes every stop into the file along with the line itself, and Save to Calendar stores them with the trip so the ride comes back complete on the day.
Editing the date on a trip in the ride calendar rewrites it without the via stops or the per-leg profiles. There’s no warning and no undo. If you need a planned trip on a different day, plan it again and save it fresh.