Routster documentation

Two products, one account, one sport.

Routster is a digital platform for orienteering, built by Orienteering Labs AB. These docs have one section per product, which you choose from the tabs at the top of every page.

Prepare

Train route choice against a clock, upload your own maps, and climb a leaderboard that rewards being fast and right.

Analyse

Upload a GPS track after a race and see where the time went: splits, terrain, route choice and an AI coach that reads the evidence.

Mapping Lab

Turn an OCAD map into thousands of route-choice challenges, and understand every parameter that shapes them.

What each product does

Routster Prepare is where you get faster at deciding. It shows you two to four drawn routes between the same pair of controls and asks which is shortest. You answer in a second or two, hundreds of times, and the leaderboard scores you on accuracy and response time together. It is also where community maps are made: upload an OCAD map and the Mapping Lab generates the route-choice challenges from it.

Prepare's Select Map screen with All Maps and three maps — Prepare: pick a map, or All Maps.

A route choice challenge on a phone with a red and a blue route — A challenge: which route is shortest?

Routster Analyse is where you find out what actually happened. An organiser publishes an event (map, courses, classes, split times), and every runner in it uploads their GPS track. Analyse aligns the track to the course, detects where time was lost, compares you to the field, and can generate an AI review of the legs that mattered.

An Analyse run: the map with a pace-coloured track — Analyse: your track on the map.

Detected mistakes listed by leg — Where the time went.

The Position view of the field comparison — You against the field.

One account across both

Signing in on either Routster subdomain signs you in on the other: the products share a single Supabase project and a session cookie scoped to .routster.se. That is why your profile name and picture and your club membership follow you between products without being set up twice.

Where the data lives

Clubs are a platform-level object, not a per-product one. A club created through Prepare or Analyse is the same club in both, and the same club whose members can see a club-only event. See Clubs in Prepare and Clubs in Analyse.

Language

These docs are in English, Swedish, French and German. English is the source language of both the products and the docs. Analyse is in all four languages; Prepare is in English and Swedish, so where a Prepare screen is quoted in French or German, its words are the English ones. The docs use the sport's own vocabulary throughout: leg (sträcka), split time (sträcktid), route choice (vägval), mistake (bom), control (kontroll).