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plotaroute admin Thursday 30 Nov 2023 13:00:39
We are excited to announce that Plotaroute has been acquired by Visorando, the leading website and app for hiking in France. The acquisition will support Visorando’s expansion within English speaking countries around the world, while bringing significant experience and skills to the Plotaroute platform to aid its ongoing development.
Fabien and Arnaud, the founders of Visorando said “This agreement was born from a shared desire. It will create strong synergies while preserving the power, complementary nature, and continuity of each of these two tools and their respective communities.”
John Piears, the founder of Plotaroute said “The Visorando team are passionate about what they do and share my own ambition to help people enjoy the great outdoors. Their experience and expertise will be invaluable in helping to bring even more benefits to Plotaroute users.”
For further details please see the following full statements:
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Mark Worthington Thursday 30 Nov 2023 17:56:45
mmmmm, I want to be oh so positive ..... but Viewranger was aquired by Outdooractive (a German company, I think) and look what happened to that great application ....
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plotaroute admin Saturday 02 Dec 2023 14:27:25
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your message.
I want to introduce myself here since we'll probably have more discussions with you and Plotaroute community in the near future.
My name is Arnaud and I'm the cofounder of https://www.visorando.com, a community website for creating and finding walk ideas (mainly). I began to developp this website 14 years ago as I love webdevelopping, outdoor sports and maps. With Fabien, my cofounder and the Visorando team (about 15 persons), we're proud of John's trust in our project for Plotaroute.
We are awared of what happened to Viewranger. It was really a big mess... Be ensured that Plotaroute won't disappear.
We'll come back to you in the near future with some more informations about our projects. We first need a couple of weeks to get used with Plotaroute community, administration and technical tools. John spent this week with us in France and gave us a lot of informations. He'll continue to help us during this transitionnal period.
Arnaud
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Mark Worthington Sunday 03 Dec 2023 06:58:51
Arnaud,
Thank you for the positive response! You have a dedicated community in plotaroute, we look forward to supporting new developments!
Many thanks, John, for your single-handed creation, development and support of PR. You were always so respsonsive to the many suggestions and requests for improvements, big and small. :)Mark
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Peter Höglund Tuesday 05 Dec 2023 08:09:02
Arnoud, thanks for your post here in the forum. That really gave me hope and trust that plotaroute is going to have a great future. Plotaroute really have some unique key features for me, that help me plan my trail run workouts and adventures.
John, I'll also want to give you a really big thank you for all support and fast responses to all questions and feature requests that pop up in my mind.
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Colin Jones Wednesday 06 Dec 2023 17:41:41
I'd like to send my best wishes and thanks to you, John. You created an amazing website, packed with the most useful tools and were always so responsive to the community you built up. And it was a community!
Arnaud, thank you for the introduction, and welcome. I'm pleased you have seen the disaster that was the Viewranger takeover and I'm pleased you want to avoid that at all costs!!
You will have a willing community here to help you, all the best
Colin
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Alan Bennett Wednesday 06 Dec 2023 23:32:37
Why did Plotaroute sell out to Visorando?
I have been a subscriber for a few years, my main hope is there are NO negative changes or i will vote with my feet
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Adam Rykala Thursday 07 Dec 2023 14:44:34
Please dont do anything to the route planner part of PAR. It's easily the best route planner out there, and I have found nothing close. If that is affected adversely, I'll be another voting with my feet.
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Scott Stocking Thursday 07 Dec 2023 19:37:33
Congratulations to all parties invloved! I trust that Visorando sees the USA as a great opportunity as we are also crazy about hiking and biking in the great outdoors. John has done a great job and I certainly enjoy the product on a nearly daily basis. I look forward to new and exciting features in the months to come.
Best Regards,
Scott Stocking
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plotaroute admin Friday 08 Dec 2023 11:03:59
Thanks to all of you for your messages. It's a real pleasure to see how involved you are.
We'll keep the routeplanner as it is. All the Visorando team was very impressed with its capabilities and we know we have a treasure here.
We are still learning about Plotaroute community, administration and technical tools before announcing any improvments.
Regards,
Arnaud
