v2.4.8 Release Notes

Plot Along 2.4.8 is a polish-heavy release: richer descriptions that read the way you wrote them, a public map page rebuilt to match the editor (now with elevation profiles and a live hover marker), labeled waypoint menus, and a few small refinements you’ll notice every time you open a route.

Descriptions, Properly Formatted

Map and waypoint descriptions now render Markdown, so the notes you leave on a route read the way you wrote them.

Style your text. Bold, italics, bulleted lists and inline links work the way you’d expect.
Link labels behave. A [label](url) link now renders with the label you wrote — no more URL preview crowding out your text.
Bare URLs auto-link. Paste a https://… link into a description and it becomes a clickable link automatically, even when it contains parentheses (Wikipedia-style URLs included).
Room to write. The description editor opens at a more comfortable height and stays vertically resizable, so long-form notes about a road, a stop, or a whole trip stay readable while you type.
Same notes, anywhere. Formatting carries over to the public map page so anyone you share the route with sees the same write-up.

Labeled Waypoint Menus

A waypoint on the map with a binoculars marker. A header pill above the action menu shows the waypoint's name — Forest Canyon Overlook — followed by Edit, Bypass, and Delete actions.

Open a waypoint’s action menu and its name now sits at the top of the menu, so there’s never any doubt which stop you’re about to edit, bypass, or delete.

Name first. Each menu is headed by the waypoint’s name, in a pill that follows the same shape as the menu below.
Cleaner clusters. Opening a menu from inside an expanded cluster now collapses the cluster correctly — no more stale spray of markers floating beside the menu.
Steadier radial menu. The expanded cluster ring behaves more predictably when you tap between waypoints in quick succession.

A Smoother Add Waypoint

The Add Waypoint flow and insertion mode now share one consolidated behavior, which means fewer surprises when you’re building a route.

Escape dismisses the right thing. Pressing Escape closes the topmost menu first — context menu, insertion dropdown — instead of dismissing everything at once.
Cleaner touch handling. Tapping a waypoint marker on a phone or tablet no longer competes with map gestures, so markers respond on the first try.
Same behavior on the public view. Shared map pages track the consolidated editor behavior, so visitors see the same interaction patterns you do.

Rebuilt Public Map View

The shared-map page that anyone (signed in or not) sees has been rebuilt to match the editor — and this release brings it the rest of the way to feature parity.

Familiar layout. Visitors get the waypoint sidebar, route, and marker styling — the same view you see while you’re planning.
Elevation, in the sidebar. The interactive elevation profile now shows up on shared maps in the same place it lives in the editor.
Live hover marker. Hover the elevation chart and a marker glides along the route on the map, with an elevation pill that follows it. Works the same on both your editor and your shared link.
Matching breadcrumb stats. The header strip now mirrors the editor: total distance, duration, elevation gain and loss, and waypoint count.
Sign in without leaving the map. Sign In, Sign Up, and Save a Copy now open an in-page modal instead of bouncing you to a separate page.
Addresses that stick. Waypoint addresses are cached so they survive a page reload — no more blank fields after a refresh.

A Few Things You’ll Just Notice

The browser tab knows your map. Open a route in the editor or the public view and the browser tab title now reads “your map name • Plot Along” — easy to spot when you’ve got a handful of routes open across tabs.
A legend for the grade overlay. Turn on the grade-color overlay and a small Uphill / Level / Downhill legend appears above the toggle, so the route’s color story reads at a glance.