Settings reference
Everything you can change, with its real default — and the handful that are worth changing first.
Settings live in your profile, under Defaults and Events. They are defaults, not locks: almost all of them can be overridden inside a single analysis from the settings rail on the map, and doing so does not change the default.
The styling section has a live preview beside the controls, so you can see what a change does to a map without opening a run.
Where settings are stored
Against your account, so they follow you between devices. Where a write fails they are kept on that device instead, and the local copy is cleared as soon as a database write succeeds, so it cannot shadow a change made elsewhere.
The six with the largest effect
| Setting | Default | Why change it |
|---|---|---|
| Default view mode | Live playback | If you mostly read maps rather than watch replays, Full course opens straight into the whole race. |
| Heart-rate zones | 130 / 160 / 180 bpm | Roughly easy, threshold and maximal for an adult orienteer. Set your own, or heart-rate colouring does not describe your effort. |
| Pace zones | 8 and 5 min/km | Forest pace and sprint pace are not the same scale. |
| Route sketch step | Skipped | Draws the route you remember running before the GPS is revealed, for comparison against it. |
| Show other runners automatically | Everyone | Narrow it to your club, or off, if a big class makes the map unreadable. |
| AI coach depth | Standard | Quick for trainings, Deep for a race you want examined in detail. See the AI coach page. |
Opening defaults
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Default view mode | live | Which view an analysis opens in: full course, per-leg or live playback. |
| Auto-show other runners | everyone | Whose tracks load with the analysis: nobody, your club only, or everyone who has shared one. Runs marked private are never included whatever this says. |
| Per-leg rotation | run | north keeps the map north-up; run rotates it so the leg you are on points upwards — you are always running towards the top of the screen. |
| Per-leg zoom | fit | How tightly the camera frames a leg: tight, fit or loose. |
| Live camera | per-leg | follow keeps the camera on you, per-leg jumps leg by leg, free leaves the map where you put it. |
| Live playback speed | 10× | 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 or 50 times real time. |
| Route sketch step | skipped | Whether to offer the sketch-your-route step after uploading a run. Off by default so it never stands between uploading and seeing the analysis. See Route guess. |
Track colouring
Your own track can be a single colour, coloured by pace, or coloured by heart rate. The two scales below appear under whichever mode is selected, because a scale without its mode beside it is not readable.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Colour mode | pace | Single colour, pace, or heart rate. Heart rate only where the file has HR samples. |
| Your track colour | Routster orange | Used in single-colour mode. |
| Pace zones | 8 / 5 min/km | The slow and fast ends of the pace scale. Everything slower than the first is the slow colour, everything faster than the second is the fast colour. |
| Heart-rate zones | 130 / 160 / 180 bpm | A stored scale rather than the run's own minimum and maximum, so two runs are comparable. Derived per run, the hardest effort in a jog would be as red as the hardest effort in intervals. |
| Track weight | 7 px | Line width of your own track. |
| Track opacity | 0,7 | How much of the map shows through your own track. |
| Track edge width | 0,5 px | A hairline dark edge — enough to lift a track off a busy map without changing its apparent weight. |
| Show warm-up and cool-down | on | Whether the parts of the track before the start and after the finish are drawn. Turn it off on a track that includes a long jog to the start. |
Other runners
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Colour mode for others | speed | hue derives a stable colour from the run id, but two runners can land on neighbouring hues; neutral makes them all grey; speed colours their segments by pace like your own track; random gives each visible runner a distinct colour from a categorical palette. |
| Weight | 3 px | Line width for other runners. |
| Opacity | 0,95 | Opacity for other runners. |
| Dashed | on | Draws other runners dashed, so your own solid line is distinguishable at a glance rather than by colour alone. |
| Edge width | 0,5 px | Hairline edge for other runners. |
random suits a crowded class
hue is stable across sessions but can give two runners on screen near-identical colours. random assigns a distinct colour per visible runner, from a palette chosen to stay distinguishable against a printed orienteering map.
Labels on the map
A runner's on-map label is two settings: when it appears, and what it says. They are set separately for you and for everyone else, so you can be permanently labelled while the field is not.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Label (self / others) | hover | off never shows it; hover shows it while the pointer is over the track; always pins it — in live playback it rides above the moving marker, and in full course and per-leg it sits beside the track. |
| Label shows (self / others) | name | name is the full name; split is name plus leg or total time, always with the shortened name because the chip has to stay narrow; short is the shortened name alone. |
Course and control drawing
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Control size | m | Small, medium or large control circles and labels. |
| Show control numbers | on | The number inside each control circle. |
| Show start and finish letters | off | S and F on the start triangle and finish double circle. |
| Glass label tint | light | The tint behind on-map labels: auto, light or dark. Dark reads better on a pale sprint map; light on a dark forest map. |
Control numbers are drawn in Arial rather than the interface font, as the IOF map specification prescribes.
Live playback
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mistake pin display | until next control | How long a mistake pin stays on the map during playback. until-next-control shows it as the playhead passes and clears it at the next control, which keeps the map readable leg by leg; after-passed leaves it up once passed; always shows every pin for the whole replay. Full course and per-leg always show every pin. |
| Your marker style | circle | circle is a filled dot; arrow is heading-aware and shows which way you are running; pulse is a dot in a soft halo, easiest to pick out on a busy map; initials is a small disc with your initials; club logo draws your club badge, falling back to initials when the club has no logo. |
| Other runners' marker style | circle | The same options, set separately — so you can be an arrow while the field stays dots. |
Club logo markers on a mass start
On a relay or a mass start with runners from several clubs, setting other runners to club logo turns the replay into something you can read without a legend. It needs the clubs to have logos on file — see Clubs and club logos.
Sprint
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Show optimal paths | off | Overlay the pre-computed shortest legal paths for each leg. |
| Optimal paths per leg | 3 | How many alternative optimal lines to draw per leg: 1, 2 or 3. |
| Snap GPS | off | Replace the raw track with a refined one snapped to passable ground. Worth turning on for city sprints where GPS drift puts you through walls. |
| Ghost runner | off | A ghost following the optimal path in live playback, at your own leg times — so you can watch where the line diverges. |
Analysis sections
The panels below the map — mistakes, legs, terrain, charts and deviation — can be reordered, hidden, or set to start collapsed. A hidden panel is not rendered or computed.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Section order | mistakes, legs, terrain, charts, deviation | Drag to reorder. The order applies to every analysis. |
| Section visibility | all visible | Hidden sections are not computed or rendered. |
| Collapsed by default | varies | Whether a section starts folded. Useful for a section you consult rarely. |
| Collapse warm-up / cool-down terrain | on | The race terrain card stays expanded; the warm-up and cool-down one folds. |
| Leg comparison columns | all on | Which of the eleven columns appear: distance, straight-line distance, time, pace, straight-line pace, climb, descent, mean deviation, events, field rank and terrain mix. |
Split-time views
The field comparison panel has fifteen views. Six are shown by default and the rest are off until you turn them on. Order and visibility are both settable.
| View | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Table | The full split-time table — what actually happened |
| Insights | Written summaries of the patterns: where you gained, where you lost, against whom |
| Relative | Each leg as a percentage of the leg winner's time, so long and short legs compare |
| Position | How your place moved control by control — where the race was won or thrown away |
| Radar | Your strengths and weaknesses as a shape against the field |
| Leg times | A bar per leg of your own time — the shape of the race, without comparison |
| Mistakes | Only the legs where you lost time, with how much and what kind |
| Cumulative | Total time behind the leader as the race goes on: a steady climb is pace, a step is a mistake |
| Time loss | Seconds lost per leg against your own level rather than against the winner |
| Behind % | Time behind per leg as a percentage, so long legs do not dominate |
| Leg rank | Your placing on each individual leg |
| Best possible | The theoretical winner made from every runner's best leg |
| Loss heatmap | The whole field as a grid, one cell per runner per leg |
| Ran together | Who you were with, and where you caught or lost them — packs and following |
| Leg stats | Per-leg statistics for the class: spread, median, how decisive each leg was |
Events page
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Layout | cards | Cards with map thumbnails, or a dense list. |
| Size | 3 | A step from 1 (most events per row) to 5 (one per row). In list mode the same control sets row density, so it keeps meaning “how much space per event”. |
| Default filters | all / all / all | Discipline, competition level and lock state, pre-applied when you open the page. |
Privacy and imports
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Default run privacy | full | The privacy tier pre-selected when you upload a run. A Strava-sourced track is forced to private whatever this says — see Run privacy. |
| Auto-import from Strava for club events | on | When an event is created in a club you belong to, a background scan looks for a matching Strava activity and imports it as your (private) run. |
| Auto-import scope | club | club considers only events in clubs you belong to; all considers any published event in the date window. |