I’m not sure Zwift would do that, others members of the community have made other things for Zwift(extra overlay data, lots of cool tools from Zwift Hacks) without Zwift having any issues with it.
No plans but I’m also not concerned about that.
The way I look at it is that if this is included in Zwift that’s a win for me and the community because it’s apparently something people want.
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It is something that we want. I guess I was thinking about ZwiftHub (badge tracker) and ZwiftPower (events scheduler and results). While Zwift have do an alright job with integrating the badge tracker into their system, ZwiftPower still feels a bit like the red headed step child that Zwift doesn’t want to do anything with but they are now obligated to at least give it food and shelter. I’m sure there are others that I’m missing but I’d hate to see something as awesome as this get gobbled up and left to flounder.
We’ll just have to see what happens, right now I’m trying to get as much feedback from people using RoadCaptain to make it even better.
If it gets killed somehow by Zwift changing APIs or locking it down then at least I’ve had fun building this 
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Thank you for your efforts into our community!
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Sander, thank you for your contributions.
After using the builder for a while a change that may make it more intuitive is to color highlight the next valid optional segments. Far too often I find myself clicking on invalid segments (orange error messaged), in an attempt to find what options I could select.
I’ve also looked at the JSON route files, RoadCaptain produces and noticed that the rides total distance, ascent and other such info that the builder displays is not included.
Your JSON files could become a standard for automated steering and the totals and segment stats would add versatility for those using it. I can already think of various ways to use the segment distance, elevation data for in game overlays or personal stats … etc.
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Big picture, it’s not RGT magic roads, but zwift could do with this an officially supported toolset to create your own routes for rides & races. Especially when you consider they manage to release about 4 new routes every 6 months… should be something so simple
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Fantastic! You are talented, i could not code my way out of a paper bag LOL.
Can’t wait to check it out! I’ve requested a feature like this in various Zwift surveys for years.
So happy someone figured it out.
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Hi Sander,
are you working on the new Makuri extension? I wanted to ride some rebel routes, but i couldn’t find the roads. The list of provided rebel routes is not the same as showed on zwiftinsider. Any way to import them? Beside of this unsychronicity, geiles tool! Well done.
I haven’t had the time to update Makuri Islands with the new roads yet, I’ve just started a new job and with a baby around my free time is a bit limited 
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And as for the Rebel Routes, I think a few ones got added there recently. The ones that are in road captain now I’ve done manually but it’s on the list to automate that so it becomes a bit easier to do (quite time consuming now)
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The utility is fantastic. I have started it and saved my route as a json file. But the instructions are not good enough to actually start riding it in Zwift I just can’t figure out how to start my saved course file in the program
RoadCaptain is actually two apps:
- Route Builder, which is what you’ve used to design your route
- Runner, which is what “runs” your route and connects to Zwift
So what you’ll need to do is start the RoadCaptain Runner app, open your route JSON file and then you can ride it 
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Aahhh
I thought the runner app was for runners as opposed to cyclists 
doh!
Thank you for the prompt reply
Yeah it’s not super great 
Ultimately I might merge the two or do a rename.
If you’re keen, I would recommend to get the pre-release version from here RoadCaptain a Zwift custom route builder
It has a new feature for sharing routes with other Zwifters which I think you might like as well as a ton of other new features.
A new “official” release will be out soon!
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