Drop a pin
Your driveway, the trailhead, the park. The loop starts and ends right there, on foot or on a bike.
Loops for every sport
Drop a pin anywhere. Traceway walks the roads and paths around it, draws the loops that come back, keeps the best one, and writes the course file your watch or GPS follows on its own.
Traceway walks every road it can reach from your pin.
Every way back gets a score. Three come out ahead.
The one closest to your distance stays. The rest fade.
Arrows point the way you go, so the line has a direction.
Want to pass through Bergom? Add a via. The loop bends, and stays a loop.
The course file is ready. Your device follows it alone.
How it works
No dragging waypoints around a map. You say where, how far, and which sport. Traceway does the routing.
Your driveway, the trailhead, the park. The loop starts and ends right there, on foot or on a bike.
40 km on the road. 12 km on foot. Each sport scores the map its own way, so the same pin gives a different loop.
Export a GPX for a watch or GPS, or a FIT course for Garmin. The device draws the line on its own map. The phone can stay at home.
Sports
Surface, climb, and quiet streets weigh differently for each sport. A road loop, a gravel loop, a mountain-bike loop, a run, a trail run, and a walk can all leave the same pin.
Quiet lanes and cycleways. Trunk roads lose.
Smooth dirt where the map knows it. Pavement still counts.
Trail and rough track. The hills stay in.
Paths and pavements. Busy roads drop out.
Footpaths and dirt, with the climb left on.
The same loop, slower, for a shorter day.
On the device
Traceway writes a GPX file for a watch, a bike computer, or any GPS that reads one, and a FIT course for Garmin. Import it in Connect under Training, then Courses, and sync. Over USB, drop the FIT in Garmin/NewFiles. The device follows the line on its own map. No signal required.
A Garmin reads the first 15 characters of a course name, so every file carries a short name beside the full one. You never see a course called "morning-loop-westerlo-via-be".
Traceway is a solo planner. Your pin, your loop and your Sunday morning stay yours. Nobody sees where you start, nobody ranks your day, and the only thing that leaves the planner is a course file, headed for your watch or GPS.
There is nothing to scroll and nobody to keep up with. You get a line that is worth the day, and the quiet to take it. The map is OpenStreetMap. The judgement about what makes a road or a path good is ours.
Questions
No. The course file is the whole outing. Load it once, over sync or USB, and the watch or GPS follows the line on its own map, with no phone and no signal.
FIT for a Garmin watch or bike computer, because it carries turn guidance and the short course name the device expects. GPX for COROS, Suunto, Wahoo, Hammerhead, and almost anything else. Both files hold the same line.
Add a via point. The loop bends through it and stays a loop: closed, on roads, never doubling back along the same stretch. The distance updates as it bends.
Each sport has its own idea of a good line. Road, walk, and run score busy roads down hard, so they lose early. Gravel, mountain bike, and trail care more about surface and climb than about traffic.
The map is OpenStreetMap, so the pin goes anywhere the map has roads and paths. The loops shown on this page leave Westerlo, where Traceway is built.