Routes, pins, and the passport

Between drives, the record of where you've been and where you're going lives here — routes to drive, pins you dropped along the way, and the passport that fills in as you cover new ground.

In the RALLIER app

On iOS, Routes is a read-only library of what you've saved, built, or already driven — an empty one tells you routes are drawn on the RALLIER website, and that's true, since nothing in the app builds a route. On Android, nearby designed routes surface right on the drive map as a Route ahead prompt you can accept or leave for another day. A route's detail page shows its distance, driving time, and total climb, an unpaved-surface warning if part of it is gravel or dirt, and fuel and charging panels checked against your own grade and plug. Tap Drive this route and RALLIER starts a drive to the beginning of it, then switches into full turn-by-turn guidance the moment you reach the start. You can leave the guidance mid-drive without ending the drive itself, and if the person who built the route allowed it, you can run it in reverse. A convoy's lead can also hand a route to a drive that's already running, putting the whole group on the same road without restarting anything.

Dropping a pin takes one tap while you're driving: hit Mark and it saves your exact spot, no typing needed. Later, parked, open it from your pins list — in the app or on the web — to give it a name and write down what was good about the road. Pins are yours alone; nobody else ever sees one, and there's a cap of 500 so the list stays a list of places rather than a trail. Your own pins also show up as a private layer on the drive map, so you know the good stretch is coming up before you're on it.

The passport records every country, state or province, and county you've driven through — nothing about when or how fast, just that you were there. It shows as running counts with a map you can drill into, and driving your first new country or state, or covering an entire state end to end, earns a small milestone along the way. Your odometer and driving level sit alongside it, wherever the passport shows up.

On the web

Building a route happens here, and only here. Draw stops on a map, write a note on any of them so everyone driving it later knows what you meant, and RALLIER draws the elevation profile, marks exactly which stretches are gravel or otherwise unpaved, and can color the whole line by which cell carrier actually covers it — useful to know before you lose signal, not after. Rather than drawing from scratch, paste a Google Maps link and its stops land in the builder for you to check over before you save. Publish when it's ready to put it on the Explore map and make it drivable in the app; until then it's a draft only you can see. Found a route someone else published? Bookmark it from its page and it joins your own list in the app.

Your Roam page (/roam) is the other half: an odometer and level up top, then Passport and Pins tabs matching what you see in the app — the same map, the same counts, the same list of roads you marked, just easier to read and edit from a keyboard.

Tips

• Write stop notes while you're still looking at the map in the builder — it's much harder to remember what you meant to say once the route is saved.
• A pin with no name is still useful. The map remembers where it is even if you never get back to naming it.
• If a road you keep marking turns out to be worth telling other people about, stop, take the photo, and post it as a Spot instead.
• Browse published routes near you from Explore before you bookmark one — the difficulty and style on each route tell you what kind of road it is before you commit to driving it.
• Set up your route, destination, or convoy before you move — driving happens on the map or through spoken guidance, and a passenger should handle any typing along the way.