Waypoints

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Waypoints are places that matter to you — a backcountry strip, a hunting camp, a ranger cabin, a gas stop. StolWRX lets you collect them, annotate each with runway length and heading, and share the whole set with friends.

Two Waypoint Sources

Your waypoint list is a merge of:

• Your own waypoints — created by double-clicking the map, imported from GPX, or created via the edit dialog.
• Shared-with-you waypoints — waypoints that another StolWRX user has shared with you or with the public. You can view these, focus on them, and use them with the flight-path measure tool, but you can't edit them.

The waypoints panel shows both sources in a single sorted list. Waypoints you own have the full set of row actions (edit, share, delete); shared waypoints don't.

Creating a Waypoint

There are three ways to create one:

1. Double-click the map (paid plan only). The waypoint edit dialog pops up pre-filled with the lat/lon of the click and the terrain elevation at that point. Type a name and save.
2. Import GPX — Waypoints menu → Import GPX. Existing cloud waypoints are preserved; incoming waypoints are merged by name/coordinate.
3. Edit dialog — from the waypoint panel's "New" button, create a blank waypoint and enter lat/lon manually.

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Waypoint names are stored as uppercase and limited to a short length so they read cleanly on the map. Long descriptions belong in the Notes field.

Runway Wheel HUD

Hover a waypoint pin on the map (or tap on phones) and the runway wheel HUD appears below it. It has the following circular buttons:

Button	What it does
Ruler	Scroll wheel to adjust runway length. 1 click = 10 m, Shift-click = 50 m.
Compass	Scroll wheel to adjust runway heading (true). 1 click = 1°, Shift-click = 5°.
Trending-up / Trending-down	Scroll wheel to adjust the required climb gradient. 1 click = 0.5 %, Shift-click = 2.5 %. 0 hides the cones. Click to toggle the cones on or off without changing the value — the icon switches to trending-down/grey when cones are hidden. Scrolling while hidden auto-restores the cones.
Pencil	Open the full edit dialog for this waypoint.
Trash	Delete the waypoint (with confirmation).
Share	Share this waypoint with a specific StolWRX user.

Above the buttons, an info pill shows the current runway length, the true-heading runway pair (e.g. RW12/RW30), and the terrain elevation in your chosen unit. When a runway is defined the pill adds an amber runway-slope line (e.g. slope 1.25 %) — the absolute gradient between the two thresholds, sampled live from the 3D terrain at each end and refined as higher-resolution tiles stream in. If a climb gradient is set, it also appears below in your selected unit (% or ft/NM); when the cones are toggled off from the wheel, that line is greyed out and appended with (hidden).

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You can only edit, share, or delete waypoints you own. For shared waypoints the wheel HUD still opens — but most buttons are disabled and marked as read-only.

Edit Dialog

Clicking the pencil in the runway wheel (or clicking a row's pencil in the waypoints table) opens the full edit dialog with these fields:

• Name — uppercase, short (shown on the map).
• Lat / Lon — decimal degrees.
• Elevation — freeform string.
• Time — ISO-8601 timestamp (for waypoints that came from a flight log).
• Comment / Description / Symbol / Display mode — standard GPX fields.
• Notes — your personal notes.
• Runway length (m) — stored internally in meters; the UI converts to feet based on your preference.
• Runway heading (°true) — 0–359.
• Climb gradient — percent or ft/NM (toggle inline in the dialog and in the Tools menu). Drives the approach/escape-path cones on the map. Leave blank or set to 0 to hide the cones. Requires a runway length > 0.

Save commits your change and syncs it to the cloud; cancel discards.

Approach & Escape-Path Cones

When you set a climb gradient on a waypoint that has a runway length and heading, StolWRX draws two translucent sky-blue inverted cones on the 3D map — one with its apex at each runway end. The cones show the minimum climb gradient you must sustain to keep terrain below your path, in any direction from the runway end. Terrain that pokes through the cone is an obstacle above your required climb.

Cones extend to ~450 m (1500 ft) above ground at the threshold. Shallower gradients produce flatter, wider cones; steeper gradients produce narrower, taller cones.

Use the gradient button on the runway wheel HUD to toggle the cones on and off per waypoint. The visibility setting is saved in your browser (not in the cloud), so it does not affect other users you share the waypoint with. Scrolling the gradient while the cones are hidden brings them back automatically.

See Runway Wheel HUD for more details.

Waypoint Panel

The Waypoint panel is the side table listing every waypoint in your set. Each row shows:

• A color dot for the track color (if the waypoint is associated with a flight).
• Name + a Users icon if someone has shared this waypoint with you or you've shared it with someone.
• The metrics summary — runway length / pair / elevation.

Row actions:

• Focus on map — click the row (or its "show" icon) to fly the camera to this waypoint on the map.
• Edit — opens the edit dialog.
• Delete — deletes it after confirmation.

The top of the panel has bulk actions:

• Select all owned — checkbox to toggle selection of your own waypoints.
• Bulk share — opens the share dialog with the selection pre-loaded.
• Bulk delete — deletes all selected owned waypoints after confirmation.

GPX Import / Export

StolWRX speaks standard GPX 1.1:

• Import merges incoming points with your existing cloud set. Matching points (same name + near-identical lat/lon) are updated in place rather than duplicated.
• Export downloads your current waypoints (not shared-to-you) as a single .gpx file, complete with the custom StolWRX extensions for runway length and heading.

See Import & Export GPX for details.

Flight Measure Tool + Waypoints

With at least one flight and one waypoint loaded, the Tools menu's Flight path measure activates a measuring tool that reports direct, horizontal, and vertical distance from any point on the track to the selected waypoint. See Map View — Flight Path Measure.

Sharing Waypoints

You can share a single waypoint with a specific StolWRX user (by email) or share multiple waypoints via a public link.

See Sharing Waypoints.