Whats your favourite route mapping web site?

baronsouthside

Went for my first plus 30mile ride today on the build up to the rob roy challlenge event
and wanted to see my exact distances and height gained etc.

Tried to use Mapmyrun.com but the whole process seems really slow

Anybody know of any good cycle route mapping sites that give elevation etc.?

woodchips69

Try bikehike.co.uk

wheezee

ridewithgps.com is good.

woodchips69

Sorry, should of said. It's only any good for mapping routes on roads, major tracks, etc. not off road/cross country.

Initialised

Would like a way of getting a gradient profile of a route from google maps/earth (before riding it with a gps tracker), anyone know how to do that?

For post ride analysis endomondo is good.

It just told me this:

Sport
Cycling, transport
Start Time
May 30, 2011 8:30 PM
Distance
13.44 miles
Duration
47m:31s
Avg Speed
17.0 mph
Max Speed
40.3 mph
Calories
574 kcal
Altitude
144 ft / 892 ft
Elevation
66 ft ↑ / 761 ft ↓

and it gives a mile by mile breakdown an route profile (Speed and Altitude).

For finding routes you may not know of try www.TrailGuru.com [edit]Forget that, it used to have a google earth plug-in so you could find other users routes, can't find it now following some site updates[/edit]

daviesee

Initialised wrote:

Would like a way of getting a gradient profile of a route from google maps/earth (before riding it with a gps tracker), anyone know how to do that?

Try bikeroutetoaster. It's free so you have nothing to lose.
Once you have planned a route, there is a tab for the summary. That includes a hill profile chart as well as elevation, distance, time etc, etc.

There are others but that is the only one I have used as it works so I don't need to look further but I should possibly try

roger_merriman

I like bikehike and google maps for having a look.

But if out for a ride use the strava iphone app and look at the miles later.

pangolin

Initialised wrote:

Would like a way of getting a gradient profile of a route from google maps/earth (before riding it with a gps tracker), anyone know how to do that?

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ is good. Set 'Elevation' to large once you've mapped your route, and it will give you a profile underneath.

Wrath Rob

my favourite is mapmyride.com, does gradients, lets you share routes, is pretty easy to work, sets waypoint warnings on exported files etc

For post-ride analysis I've been using the Garmin Connect website as I don't need the training functions at the moment.

Initialised

daviesee wrote:

Initialised wrote:

Would like a way of getting a gradient profile of a route from google maps/earth (before riding it with a gps tracker), anyone know how to do that?

Try bikeroutetoaster. It's free so you have nothing to lose.
Once you have planned a route, there is a tab for the summary. That includes a hill profile chart as well as elevation, distance, time etc, etc.

There are others but that is the only one I have used as it works so I don't need to look further but I should possibly try

Thanks, am contemplating the 63 mile Northern Rock Cyclone next month but want to look at the hills first.