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After saying “coming soon” for way too long, route search has arrived! We’ve also taken this opportunity to update all the icons that show up on the map. Here they are…

My Places

How to use the search feature: When you’re viewing a route, just click on the “Find routes nearby” button in the sidebar or click on “Show routes nearby” from the route popup. We’ll be adding a dedicated search page as soon as we can.

Here’s a new icon in action! View it for yourself!

P.S. We’ve had to rename the routes in the route editor from Route A and Route B to “My Route” and “My 2nd Route” to avoid confusion with route search results. Hopefully it’s not too confusing for you long-time loyal users 🙂

As always, we love hearing from you! Send us your thoughts »

UPDATE: Our twitter handle is now @FriendFit

RunThere is twittering! Subscribe to our twitter feed and read quick updates about how the site is coming along.

Our web hosting company had an issue with one of its machines today and it brought down our site. We apologize for the inconvenience. Thankfully, if you’re able to read this, everything should be working again 🙂

Hello to everyone reading this at WhereCamp2008! I’ve just returned home from a wonderful, inspiring day talking with and listening to so many others from the mapping community. I’ll be there for tomorrow’s sessions, so please feel free to come over and talk.

If we don’t get the chance to talk in person, contact me through the feedback page.

If you’ve been using the site for a while, you probably noticed big visual changes a month and a half ago! As we worked on making RunThere easier and more fun to use, we decided that it was time for a new logo. Our previous logo was a bit large and we couldn’t quite get it to fit in our new site, so it had to go. We also felt that the logo itself was too complicated and didn’t look good at small sizes (two criteria for successful logos, see: http://www.davidairey.com/what-makes-a-good-logo/).

So let’s walk through our logo evolution (which is thankfully short, we’ve still got a website to make!). See the image below for the visual progression. First, we discussed the elements that we liked and what needed to go. We want our logo to convey two things:

• Running, and
• Creating a trail/path/route

We felt that the running person took care of #1 and the arrow took care of #2…. so how to combine these elements?

The first round of designs worked with different arrows, but we couldn’t quite come up with a simple arrow that pleased everyone. In the end, we chose the fading triangle path for two reasons: simplicity and readability at small sizes. Also, the design has the added bonus of allowing different background colors (see ‘confirming the design’) and different silhouete people/bikes/etc. To finalize the logo, we brought back the original font and re-made the running person.

So what do you think of the new logo and the new design? Click here to send your feedback!