Every club has a Routes tab on its page — a library of the club's regular loops, built once and reused whenever an admin schedules a meet-up. It's grown well beyond "upload a GPX": admins can now build a route from scratch in the app, and every route in the library carries the same editing, duplicating and sharing tools a personal route does.
Add a route to the library
Club admins see an Add route button on the Routes tab, with three ways to get a route in:
- Build — opens Aster's in-app route builder on a blank map. Draw or trace a line, snap it to roads, generate a round trip, see live distance and an elevation profile, then save it straight into the club's library. Building is free and has no route-count limit for a club.
- Upload GPX — the original way in: upload a
.gpxfile exported from wherever you already plan routes (Strava, Komoot, etc.) and Aster reads its distance and line. - Select from My routes — pull in one of your own personal routes (built or uploaded under your own account) as a copy in the club's library. The personal original stays untouched in My Routes; the club gets its own copy.
Whichever way it arrives, the route appears in the library with its distance, ready to attach to a meet-up.
The same Build option is also offered directly from the New meet-up form itself, so an admin scheduling a ride and realising the route doesn't exist yet can build it without leaving the flow — see create a meet-up.
Attach a route to a meet-up
When creating a meet-up, the Route field offers a saved-route picker listing both the club's library and your own personal My routes as a second group, plus the upload and build options above. Pick one and the meet-up gets the route — members see it on the meet-up page and on the live map during the ride or run, and athletes who downloaded the event data have it available offline like any event route.
A route can also be attached from the library side: open its card's menu on the Routes tab and choose Use in event or meet-up to jump straight into scheduling a meet-up with that route pre-selected, or to attach it to one of your upcoming club events.
If a route fails to attach when you create the meet-up, the meet-up is still created and the app tells you — for a freshly-uploaded GPX, add it from the Routes tab; for a library route, try attaching it again.
Managing a route once it's in the library
Every route card in the library (and in My Routes, for admins) opens the same menu: View route, Duplicate (opens the builder on a copy — the original is untouched), Use in event or meet-up, Edit route (opens the builder on the route itself — even one that started life as a GPX upload), Share route, Rename, and Remove route (takes it out of the club's library only; a personal copy shared in from My Routes is unaffected).
Sharing a library route outside the club
Share route mints a public link — astertrack.app/routes/shared/… —
that anyone can open with no account and no club membership: they see
the map, distance, elevation profile, and a download GPX button. This
is opt-in per route (nothing is public until an admin taps Share) and can be
turned off again from the same menu. It's the one deliberate exception to
"the library is members-only": a specific route an admin chooses to hand
out — to a guest rider, a local shop, another club — travels outside the
club even though the library itself stays members-only.
Who can do what
| Club admins | Members | Non-members | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build, upload or pull in a route | Yes | No | No |
| Browse the library and view routes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Edit, duplicate, rename or remove a library route | Yes | No | No |
| Attach a route to a meet-up | Yes (when creating a meet-up, or via "Use in event or meet-up") | No | No |
| Share a library route publicly | Yes | No | No (but anyone can open a link an admin shared) |
Browsing the library itself is a members-only surface — routes in it aren't public by default. Routes attached to your club's meet-ups behave like any event route for the people who can see the meet-up; a route an admin has explicitly shared (above) is public regardless of club membership.
Building routes doesn't count against your personal limit
Aster Plus separately caps how many routes an individual can save to their own personal My Routes library outside of any club (free up to three; more needs Aster Plus). That limit does not apply here — building or uploading routes into a club's library is free and unlimited for the club, whatever any individual admin's personal My Routes count looks like. See club membership and Aster Plus for what Aster Plus does and doesn't gate.