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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:

Full Announcement

Plotaroute Founder Statement

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 ....

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Please don't mess with the route planner :)

Its the ONLY route planner out there that I can do Up Ahead points with my Garmin reliably and easilly. There's a great post in the forum marking out wihich custom directions map to Garmin's Up Ahead points, and I use that a lot. Connects own planner is a PITA with courses that overlap where you might want to (for example) mark an Up Ahead point on the outward and inward loop, but with PAR I now have a workflow where I can quickly create a route, add Up Ahead points and sync to my device.....

Please, PLEASE dont make me go back to Connect. I'll be good, honest :)

A

All quiet on the Visorando front ...... 

Bonne continuation avec Visorando

Et bonne fêtes de fin d'année 😉🍰💐🥳🥂🎉

Hello Visorando and Plotaroute.  Congradulations on the merger.  I am a current customer in the US and work for a company in Upstate NY. We provide services to clients in he Northeast and Midwest. We have been searching for application very similar to yours. I would like to speak to someone about expanding the capabilities of your application for our business. Please let me know the best way I can contact you.

Thank you. 

Dave.