Equivalent of Google StreetView for bicycle paths?

[brodiej]

There is such a site and it's called Geograph... and it's wonderful. Crowd-sourced photos rather than 360° panoramas, but that's all you need. (It's UK and Ireland only, sadly.)

I worked with the lovely Geograph people to integrate it into my routeplanner at cycle.travel. It works like this:

1. Go to cycle.travel/map
2. Plan route (by typing places or clicking on map)
3. Drag route if it doesn't go the way you want
4. Click on section of route to see pictures

Example (picture tells a thousand words, and all that):

Thanks - that's nice
Although I'm wasting my lunchtime playing with it!

 

[John the Monkey]

I'm not saying set off on a 50 mile trip without looking at a map but do we really need to send someone ahead to take yard by yard footage of the route so we don't step in a dog turd?

Nope. But it would be nice to know if the route you picked specifically to avoid a 70mph dual carriageway is a muddy farm track, or a tarmac path. (I'd have preferred to stay off the D1, for instance, last time I rode in France - unfortunately, the little road I picked to avoid it was barely a track, impassable by road bike). Also, not everyone can visualise a route from a map - I have problems with that, and like to look at important junctions on streetview as well, so as to "fix" them in my mind.

To the OP - Openfietsmap doesn't do a bad job of classifying bike paths - no streetview pictures, but they do classify the paths (paved/unpaved, on road/off road). If it's about which bike to take, that might help.

 

[doouk]

same for canals, railways etc... best option currently seem to be the satellite images option zooming right the way in, but that assumes that you are in an area that has been redone at a decent level of detail quite recently...

UK canals are already mapped and are available on google streetview.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

UK canals are already mapped and are available on google streetview.

not where I live they are not... (I have just double checked...)

 

[doouk]

not where I live they are not... (I have just double checked...)

Oops! I should have said some parts of the canal network.

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news...iew-images-of-canals-and-rivers-now-available