How to analyse a planned route to know how much is A-road, B-road, etc?

alex_uk

Hi, I'm putting together a 300km route in the UK for a multiday adventure, using OS Maps and Garmin Connect. It would be really nice to get a summary produced that says something like:-

A roads: 5%
B roads: 60%
Unclassified roads: 35%

Is there a website that can process a GPX file and do the crunching to come up with this?

The only other way I can think of is to scroll through OS Maps and keep a tally of roughly how much distance is on each road type ... the percentages don't need to be that precise really (nearest 5% would be good enough).


Alex

MattFalle

AA Route Planner or similar will do it.

photonic69

Hi. Check out brouter.de

http://www.brouter.de

It’s got a horrible user interface at first but it’s a great cycle route planning tool. It will tell you everything you need about your planned route. It’s the tool of choice for world renowned ultra endurance cyclist Ian Walker.

alex_uk

Thanks @photonic69 - I'm trying brouter.de now ... looks to be a pretty neat site.

I had a look at the AA Route Planner as well @MattFalle but couldn't find anyway to customise the route it calculates, so didn't persue trying to get an analysis out of it.

Charlie_Croker

There's quite a few of these, some are querky, some are better than others depending what you already know and what you need. No particular order:


https://cycle.travel/map
https://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/
https://www.bikemap.net/en/routeplanner/
https://www.plotaroute.com/cyclerouteplanner
https://www.cyclinguk.org/journey-planner
https://bikeroll.net
https://ridewithgps.com
https://www.komoot.com

There's more but that'll do for a start