The roadbook everyone dreamt of now exists.

Engine

The roadbook generated from your track

Upload the GPX, RoadBookAI proposes the notes. How it's done →

• Three densities: human (about 2 notes/km, like a hand-drawn roadbook, with FRO and FPP on the straights), dense (about 4/km, every junction) and Dakar (about 1/km, nearby events merged into "ET à X m" and CAP on every note).
• Roads and tracks read automatically for the whole area of the track, even on long stages.
• Realistic drawings: for every note, about 200 × 155 m of terrain around the point, with the direction of arrival at the top, the true shape of the track and nearby roads (asphalt as a double line, tracks as a single line), buildings and roundabouts.
• CAP only where it's needed at human density: start of an off-track section, exit onto a faint track, forks with at least three options; never on asphalt or in a village.
• Signs and cobbles: STOP and give way in the rider's direction of travel; when you come off a dirt road onto a more important road, a STOP (an event rule you can change). Cobbles with their own icon and length.
• Every note explains itself: source, confidence and reason.

Studio

RoadBook Studio online

Simple and fast: validate or edit one note at a time. The Studio in the guide →

• Satellite or street map with the track and the notes coloured by status: proposed, confirmed, modified, rejected. North-up or heading-up orientation.
• The Dakar-style RoadBook: every row is drawn to the dimensions of the PDF, with total km, partial, drawing and annotations.
• Note details: where it comes from, annotations from the FIA lexicon, CAP, danger from 1 to 3, surface on arrival, on exit and of every track.
• Confirm, reject and restore from the keyboard; a new note with one click on the track.
• Personal accounts with two-step verification and roadbooks you can share with your team.
• Dark and light themes, in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German.

Drawing editor

The note, redrawn by hand

Every detail under control. How to use it →

• Easily edit every kind of arrow, track and terrain.
• A palette of RoadBookAI icons you can search by name (tree, tyres, house…), to place, rotate and resize.
• Free text in the annotations, CAP and danger you can move, undo and redo.

Rules

FIM W2RC 2027 waypoints and zones

All 16 types, with radii and penalties. The rules in brief →

• WPV, WPE, WPM, WPS, WPC, WPP, WPN, CP, DSS, ASS, DZ, FZ, DN, FN, DT, FT, with the default values of the FIM W2RC 2027 regulations.
• Opening radius, validation radius, penalty and, for zones, speed, all editable for each waypoint.
• Training profile: validation radii 50 % wider and no penalties. Organisers save their own radius profiles and apply them before generating or to a roadbook that is already done.
• The day's PDF opens with the table of radii and penalties and the list of waypoints.
• On the map, the opening and validation circles, coloured by type; in the RoadBook and in the PDF, the waypoint badge and the frame between DZ and FZ.

Versions

Draft, versions and comparison

Every action is saved straight away. Versions in the guide →

• The draft is saved with every action: close your browser and pick up where you left off.
• "Save version" creates a version that never changes again: changed notes get MODIF and new ones NEW NOTE, automatically.
• Note-by-note comparison between any two versions, or between a version and the draft.
• Saved versions open view-only and export just like the draft.

Recce (reconnaissance) mode

Speak in the saddle, find the edits in the Studio

Listen, read the proposal, decide. Recce in the guide →

• On a recce you record voice notes with the RoadBookAI app for Android or iPhone (or with the notes app you already use), with markers for danger, surface, waypoint and photo.
• Every note is placed on the track, transcribed and processed by the RoadBookAI AI, which proposes it as an edit, with the FIA text and the reason.
• Written notes ("Danger Level 1", speed limits, HP) apply straight away; voice notes enter the roadbook when you press "Accept".
• After the recce you save the new version: MODIF and NEW NOTE update themselves.

Export

Every format, one single source

From the draft or from a saved version. Export in the guide →

• RN2, the most widely used roadbook format, with editable drawings, recalculable CAPs and waypoints with their radii.
• PDF Dakar in A4: five notes per page, large total km, CAP in yellow, dangers in red, frame between DZ and FZ.
• OpenRally GPX for navigation apps, with the notes as images and the complete track.
• RoadBookAI (.roadbook.json) for the app: vector notes, waypoints, zones, hand drawings, MODIF and NEW NOTE. With an account you do not even need the file: the saved version appears in the app under My roadbooks.

Public roadbooks

A catalogue of roadbooks, by country

Free, even without an account. Public roadbooks in the guide →

• Each author publishes one of their roadbooks from the Studio, with a description in five languages, vehicle, difficulty, seasons, photos and licence; an administrator approves it.
• Countries and regions crossed, km, surface as a percentage and elevation, calculated from the track.
• Catalogue in the Studio, in the app and on the website, with filters, map and first notes; download it as RoadBook or GPX, or copy it into the Studio to adapt it.

Events

Entrants, encrypted stages and unlocking on time

For organisers and their team. Events in the guide →

• Events with classes and team: clerk of the course, timekeeper, event tutor, read only.
• Stages (prologue, selective section, liaison) with the roadbook frozen in a version that never changes again; each class has its own settings.
• Entrants from a spreadsheet, with a preview of the errors and invitations in the event language; statuses pending, accepted, rejected, tester.
• Starting order generated according to the FIM W2RC 2027 regulations (prologue, first stage, previous day's results) or with your own rules (intervals, groups, breaks, draw with a seed), with a preview you can drag and a start list to post; without a start time the stage stays closed, and the clerk of the course can block a rider.
• Joint controllership agreement on race data accepted when the event is created, minors only with parental consent, race data kept for 3 years with a full export at any time.
• An encrypted package for each rider: it downloads in advance, opens 20 minutes before their start using GPS time, even offline, and is deleted after the stage. GPX entrants also receive the offline map, encrypted.
• Last-minute versions with the reason: they reach the phones with a notice and the changed notes, even with the stage open. A preview of what each rider sees at a simulated time.

Organiser's rules

The stage regulations, actually applied

FIM W2RC 2027 profile or your own. Stage rules →

• Time with penalties or clean navigation classification, by points.
• Penalties by waypoint type, speed bands counted in pulses, race STOPs checked by GPS, neutralisations with exit area, countdown and GO, liaisons, maximum time, retirements and the 70 % waypoint threshold.
• Forced opening of waypoints allowed or not, with a single or double penalty, or unlock codes from race control.
• LateNote, the RoadBook falling behind: it is always recorded, and you penalise it only if your supplementary regulations provide for it.
• With the FIM W2RC 2027 profile the apps switch to regulation mode: RoadBook moved forward by hand, no coordinates, settings locked as the regulations require.
• Organiser profiles: rules and radii saved under a name and applied to events, stages and training.

Race

Live tracking, results and corrections

The service is the referee. The race in the guide →

• Automatic data collection from the apps: track at one point per second, waypoints, events and rider actions, sent as soon as there is a network connection and in any case at the end of the stage; several devices per rider merged.
• Live view for race control with each rider's status and the alarms: stopped for a long time, off course, no signal.
• Stage and overall classifications by class and by RoadBook or GPX category, calculated by the service from the recorded track; details of every penalty with the map of the spot.
• Race control decisions with reason and log: penalties edited or cancelled, WPs marked by hand, times taken by the timekeepers, bonuses, cutting GPS points; and for all riders, WPs neutralised, zones cancelled, imposed time. Provisional and final classification with the time for protests; CSV and PDF.
• Race control unlock codes instead of the free opening of waypoints, as the regulations require.
• Public results and live pages with a delay, in five languages: name or initials, number, class and team only.

Replay and tutors

Review the stage, understand the mistake

For organisers, tutors and riders. Replay in the guide →

• Map with the correct track and the actual tracks of several riders, synced at the DSS or at real times, up to ×128.
• The RoadBook following along next to the map, charts of speed and distance from the track, mistakes explained in plain words, rider actions in the app, section-by-section comparison.
• Comments pinned to a point, shared links with names hidden, GPX export; the visibility of other riders' replays is chosen by the organiser; race control decisions with the calculated value and the decided one.
• Rider report in PDF for the debriefing: times, KM EXTRA and KM CUT, off-course episodes, waypoints, stops, speeding, penalties and decisions; riders download their own when the organiser or the tutor allows it.
• Training groups: the tutor invites students, sees their training rides and chooses the group's off-course alarm.

App

The RoadBook in your cockpit, on Android and iOS

Phone and tablet, even offline. The app in the guide →

• Sign in with your Studio account; My roadbooks, My events, public roadbooks, replay and groups.
• Cockpit with the instruments at the top and the status block at the bottom, the RoadBook with large notes drawn like the PDF Dakar and the active note framed: total, partial, CAP, waypoint arrow, Note− and Note+ for exactly one note, magnifier with highlighter, struck-out notes and countdown.
• PDF RoadBook reader with odometer, CAP and speed, step-by-step scrolling and magnifier.
• FIM waypoints opened and validated with the roadbook's radii, speed zones with alarm, dangers at 200 m, race STOPs, neutralisations.
• Ten tabs of settings (odometer, display, RoadBook, sounds, track, remote, time, GPS, waypoints, device), profiles, Standard, Minimal and Rally GPS modes.
• Bluetooth remote control with reassignable keys, virtual remote; navigation with the screen off and in the background.
• Training, simulation, recce with voice notes and markers, history and summary.

GPX navigation

The track on an offline map, with the RoadBook warnings

For GPX entrants and for training. GPX navigation →

• Our own vector map, designed for off-road riding, with contour lines and shading; downloaded for the corridor of the track and used offline; always in the direction of travel, with − and + zoom and Recentre.
• Warnings overlaid with sound and voice: dangers, STOP and give way, junctions with major roads, level crossings, fords, speed zones, difficult turns.
• For a track without a roadbook the service generates the roadbook by itself and derives the warnings from it.
• In race stages the map arrives encrypted and opens together with the roadbook; the organiser can give it to RoadBook riders too.

Safety and training

Training to read the notes

The aids you do not get in a race. Training in the guide →

• LateNote: riders who follow another rider or the tracks on the ground stop reading the RoadBook and miss the dangers exactly where they pass. In training the app warns "CHECK THE ROADBOOK!" when the RoadBook falls behind; in a race it only records, for safety and for fairness.
• Off course and back-track: after the chosen km away from the course the app flashes the alarm and an arrow takes you back, along your trail, to the last validated waypoint.
• Automatic scrolling of the RoadBook can be turned off by the tutor or the organiser, to get used to moving it forward by hand as in a race.
• Summary with the theoretical penalties and a replay of the ride, even offline, with the tutor's comments.

Administration

A back office to keep everything in order

For whoever runs the service. Administration in the guide →

• Users and roles (organiser, tutor, administrator) with two-step verification, sign-in log, moderation of public roadbooks.
• Job queue in separate lanes, with cancellation and estimated wait for whoever is generating.
• Regional maps on the server to generate in a few minutes, with automatic updates, and offline maps for riders.
• Signed updates from the back office, with backup, automatic return to the previous version and a block during race stages.

A-to-B routes

The offroad route, proposed automatically Coming soon to the Studio

Routes in the guide →

From a start, a finish and any via points, RoadBookAI calculates up to five alternatives on roads and tracks, with a profile (enduro bike, adventure bike, car or 4x4 SSV) and a "how much offroad" slider. For each alternative: km of asphalt, dirt road and track, elevation gain, estimated time and, on request, the complete roadbook.