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komoot-3xscreen-2.jpg (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)<\/p>\nIf you could do with some route-planning inspiration \u2013\u00a0and most of us could \u2013 navigation platform Komoot has launched a ChatGPT app that gives you instant suggestions based on your simple text queries.<\/p>\n
Komoot says, \u201cThe new tool makes it frictionless to discover the outdoors through natural language prompts. Users can type a request and receive a curated list of route and landmark recommendations in seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Komoot for ChatGPT app unlocks a rich library of over seven million routes and four million highlights.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Last year, Komoot was bought by an Italian tech firm<\/a> infamous for mass layoffs, sparking redundancy fears and comments from employees saying they felt \u201cblindsided\u201d by Bending Spoons\u2019 purchase. The acquisition also came in the same month Komoot announced that new users would be required to pay a monthly fee<\/a>, \u00a34.99 per month in the UK, to sync their routes to third-party devices. Two months later, in May, the redundancy fears were justified as it was reported 85 per cent of Komoot\u2019s workforce had been let go.<\/p>\n The new ChatGPT app is designed to complement existing tools and provide faster route discovery. Then you can use the \u2018Open in Komoot\u2019 function to send the information directly from ChatGPT to the Komoot platform to save, edit, or download a route for offline navigation.<\/p>\n Essentially, the new app is designed to improve the route discovery process \u2013\u00a0and, let\u2019s be honest, most of us spend the majority of our ride time doing the same few routes and could do with some ideas to mix things up.<\/p>\n You can ask for routes with specific characteristics \u2013 length, location, duration, sport type, and so on \u2013 and your query can go beyond Komoot\u2019s predefined keyword categories and filters. You can also make more tailored requests, such as asking for a certain number of route options, or specifying that you\u2019d like to see the results as a list or map view.<\/p>\n For example, you could ask: \u201cShow me maps of three 50-mile road cycling routes from my house that take in quiet roads and a coffee stop.\u201d<\/p>\n You\u2019ll get suggestions, each starting from your home, prioritising quieter roads and incorporating a caf\u00e9 stop along the way.<\/p>\n Tap \u201cOpen in Komoot\u201d, and you can see the routes there.\u00a0 You can adjust things like elevation gain, loop format, and surface preference before saving or navigating.<\/p>\n \u201cAs people increasingly use ChatGPT for everything from daily tasks to trip planning, Komoot\u2019s app brings Komoot directly into the workflows people are already using to find inspiration and shape their plans,\u201d says project lead Felix Tarcomnicu. \u201cThis evolution of Komoot\u2019s navigation and route planning technology will make exploring the outdoors even easier for people worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n