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- Import and export courses. A course can now move between Checkpoint and
the rest of the orienteering world. Import a course drawn in Purple Pen or
OCAD (IOF XML), or one made for MapRun (KML) — one button, and the file
format is recognised automatically. Every course you can view can also be
exported the other way, to open in those same tools or to run on MapRun.
One MapRun note: the punch radius isn’t part of a KML file, so set the
event tolerance when you upload there.
- A tidier course page. The course page’s row of buttons had grown
crowded, especially on a phone. The everyday actions — start a training
run, share, edit, create an event — stay up front, while the occasional
ones (export, duplicate, delete) now sit behind a small ⋯ menu. The
header also lays itself out properly on small screens.
- Watch an event live on the map. A new “Live data” view, open once an
event is Live or later, plots every entrant’s recorded GPS track on the
course map — each athlete or team in their own colour, with a checkbox to
show just the ones you care about, or filter to only the Finished or
Unfinished. Tap the dot at the end of a track to jump to that person’s
result. On a Score-O course it also shows each runner’s live score and,
when the course has a time limit, their own countdown to it.
- Follow a feedback thread. Post an idea on the
feedback board, or comment on someone else’s, and you’ll get
email when that thread gains a comment or changes status — including “your
idea is now Planned”. A Follow button lets you watch an idea you haven’t
posted on, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe.
- Message everyone entered. Organizers can write to an event’s
registrants in one go — the approved entries, the ones still awaiting
approval, or all of them — and choose between a message people can reply
to and an announcement sent under the event’s own name.
- Messages and one notification bell. Members can message each other
in threads, and a single bell in the header counts everything waiting on
you: unread messages, club invitations, friend requests, and decisions on
your entries.
- Share an event, a course, or your result. Every event, course, club,
and map has a short link that previews as a card in chat and a QR code you
can print. Your own result can have a public page too — only if you
publish it, and you can take it down again at any time.
- Feedback in your own language. Ideas and comments on the
feedback board are translated automatically into all six
languages Checkpoint speaks — write in yours, read in yours, with the
original a click away.
- Entry limits and waitlists. Cap an event by how many people it can
take. Once it’s full, entries join a waitlist and move up automatically,
in order, as places free up.
- Control over who sees your results. Each event decides who can open
an athlete’s splits, track, and map — everyone, its registrants, or only
its organizers.
