• Less hills: turn it on and the first card climbs a fifth to a third less per kilometre on three of the four rides I measured.
• When a search finds only one or two rides, Linje goes back for more. It helps most among mountains and fjords, where a loop is hardest to fit.
• A place's photograph is now of the place itself and in colour, or there is no photograph.

One ride isn't a choice, so I go back for more, even among the fjords. And I'd rather show you no photograph than the wrong one.

• Best today: rides from where you are, grouped by the direction with the best conditions today.
• Snow you can act on, in Norway: where the snow is on a ride, whether it is coming or going, and a version of the ride off it.
• Less hills: a switch for flatter rides.
• A sweep across the map while a search runs, showing how far the ride can reach.

With autumn the question changed from where to ride to whether, and where it is still good. Best today answers that, and the snow work is for the weeks either side of winter.

• A redesign of the planner and the route card: a verdict on every card, saved routes under You, and More for the kinds of ride that are not a shape.
• Ride invites: send a route and a day, and friends tick the hours they can make in a browser, with no app needed.
• A route editor: Trim takes a stretch out and lets you join the gap, and Draw makes your own by tapping roads.

I tried the redesign as a separate app on my phone first, and kept it. Invites and the editor are what a ride needs once there is more than one person, or more than one opinion, about it.

• A ride summary that sets the route you planned beside the route you rode, with speed and elevation graphs.
• Four fixes for the battery.
• Soft foot trails now count as paths for walkers, and generated loops keep their corners off them.
• A green line for the part of the ride already done.

Planning a ride on a screen and riding it are different tests. This was the first real ride with it, and these are the things the ride found.

• Surprise me: a mixed batch of rides from where you are standing, a loop, an out and back and one to a named cabin.
• A to B to loop: ride to a place, choose a loop from there, and come home the way you came.
• The ride graph: the ride stood up on its hills at the top of the wind, terrain and best time pages.

Sometimes you know where you want to go and sometimes you just want to ride. And kilometres of headwind mean more when you can see where they are.

• Rides that stay in the forest: choose where to go in, and Linje builds loops from there, with the road in and the road home.
• Offline maps for saved routes, for when there is no signal.
• GPX import, matched to the roads, and GPX export for a bike computer.

Most of the good gravel near Oslo is in the marka, and a ride that leaves it after a kilometre is not the ride anyone wanted. Offline maps and GPX are what a rider expects before trusting an app with a long day out.

• A wind page for every ride: the wind on every stretch, hour by hour, with a slider through the next two days.
• Stops: up to three places on a ride, without wrecking its shape.
• Rides appear as they are found, instead of all at once at the end.
• A new record screen: metrics and the map side by side, and a camera that follows you.
• The best time to leave, reworked: the good windows soonest first, with rain and temperature on each.

Each of these answers a question the first version could not: exactly when, where to stop on the way, and why a search seemed to take so long.

• The app was called FeilVei until now. It became Linje, Norwegian for line.
• Badges for distance, climbing, speed, riding often, exploring and the weather you rode in.

FeilVei means wrong way, which is a poor name for something that plans routes. Linje is what it draws: one line on a map, one ride. The badges are there because a finished ride should leave you something to keep.

• A wind bar under every route: orange where it is against you, green where it is behind.
• Which way round: the direction that keeps the headwind off the descents.
• The terrain check: one word for the gravel, dry, wet, soft, frozen or snow, from NVE's rain and snow records.
• Rides can be saved for a day, with the forecast for that day.

Other planners stop at the route. The weather is what decides whether a ride is any good, so it had to sit on the route itself.

• A record screen with a clock that keeps time through pauses, and a summary at the end: distance, climbing, speed and an estimate of power and calories.
• Finding a route became a map with a planner over it, instead of a form.
• Rides to a place: pick a DNT cabin and Linje plans the way there, with its photograph and whether anyone is there to serve you.
• A to B, and the first places on the map: cabins, swimming spots, campsites, saunas and moose sightings.

I wanted planning a ride to happen on a map, the way you think about where to go, and then to be able to ride the thing it planned.