Planning Routes

stoobydale

Does anyone know of any free software for this? I know of "Gmaps pedometer" & "Walk jog run" but these can take ages to plot a route if you want to keep the route on the road because of all the point needed. There is some others that automatically follow the road but I can't remember them.

Lagavulin

MapMyRide?

GraemeT

www.bikeroutetoaster.com

stoobydale

Thanks, Map my ride was the one that I had tried before.

geoff_ss

I find old-fashioned paper maps ideal. We've had fantastic rides all over the world using them. Why do you need GPS just to ride your bike?

I suppose I've been in love with maps since I was a child. They provide a huge amount of information in a very succinct form. The only use I can think of for a GPS is to tell me where I am on the map.

Geoff

Anonymous

http://www.bikely.com/

graeme_s-2

Geoff_SS wrote:

I find old-fashioned paper maps ideal. We've had fantastic rides all over the world using them. Why do you need GPS just to ride your bike?

I suppose I've been in love with maps since I was a child. They provide a huge amount of information in a very succinct form. The only use I can think of for a GPS is to tell me where I am on the map.

Geoff, you're the only person in this thread who's mentioned GPS. Everyone else was talking about maps. They may be on a computer rather than a piece of paper, but they're still maps, and this way they're freely available whenever you want them.

Kafka\'s Doll

Geoff_SS wrote:

I find old-fashioned paper maps ideal. We've had fantastic rides all over the world using them. Why do you need GPS just to ride your bike?

I suppose I've been in love with maps since I was a child. They provide a huge amount of information in a very succinct form. The only use I can think of for a GPS is to tell me where I am on the map.

Geoff

What an odd argument. There were fantastic Tour de France competitions in the 1920s. Why on earth do they now need carbon bikes?

A paper map is a very good thing. I've never met anyone who opposed paper maps. But why does it offend you so that I quite like a bit of electronic kit that will tell me which road to take?

geoff_ss

Kafka\'s Doll wrote:

Geoff_SS wrote:

I find old-fashioned paper maps ideal. We've had fantastic rides all over the world using them. Why do you need GPS just to ride your bike?

I suppose I've been in love with maps since I was a child. They provide a huge amount of information in a very succinct form. The only use I can think of for a GPS is to tell me where I am on the map.

Geoff

What an odd argument. There were fantastic Tour de France competitions in the 1920s. Why on earth do they now need carbon bikes?

A paper map is a very good thing. I've never met anyone who opposed paper maps. But why does it offend you so that I quite like a bit of electronic kit that will tell me which road to take?

It doesn't offend me. I just find paper maps to be so much better than electronic ones. I use on-line maps when it's for an area where I don't have a paper map and generally they're a poor substitute for the real thing.

And before you imagine I'm a technophobe I was working on computers in the 1960s. I've written software for micro-processors and designed all sorts of electronic hardware as a professional. It was fun but, like a lot of my colleagues, I was eager to find problems so I could use my high-tech solutions and, I confess, often they weren't really suitable.

Most of my local area is in my head anyway. I only need a map to remind me occasionally.

Geoff