Google Maps with cycle paths

[Leodis]

Strava has a route creator which uses google maps, it has a "Use Popularity" setting so it will plan routes for one place to another using the most cycled roads according to the data they hold.
It can also overlay segments if you're a segment chaser... and also allows you to select a climb category.

I don't really use route creators though, and if I do I like the ability to Street View the route.
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Just checked my andriod and I cant find a way to use plotted routes on Strava, you can create them and upload the GPX but cannot find them on the mobile app?

 

[Frood42]

Just checked my andriod and I cant find a way to use plotted routes on Strava, you can create them and upload the GPX but cannot find them on the mobile app?

Oh, yeh, I have a Mio 305HC GPS device.
I use a PC to plot the route, then download the GPX to the GPS device (which also has base maps to give me turn by turn directions).

Forgot about the App as I don't use them...

As I have a GPS device I tend to use the Strava and Endomondo websites much more than I would the Apps.

Although looking at the Endomondo App now, they have added some features, like the routes thing, hmmmm... actually they have quite alot of new features, interesting.
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[dodgy]

Yes, that feature has been there since July 2012. Problem is their product is only as good as their sources, which I think might be Sustrans?

 

[Leodis]

Yeah, I run them both together. Endomondo for directions and Strava for timings.

 

[booze and cake]

Google could record the cycle routes easy enough I'd have thought, they just need some cycling volunteers, I'd do it. The also need to strap some cameras to a horse and record all the bridleways so we can see them too. I often plan routes using bridleways but as you can't recce them on google maps its a gamble and a trip into the unknown. The last time I did this I ended up on my single speed road bike in the middle of nowhere on a 'track' that looked more like the battle of the Somme, I laugh about it now but at the time I was spitting nails.

 

[coffeejo]

That's why I use OS mapping as it makes a clear distinction between paved and unpaved surfaces.

 

[morrisman]

That's why I use OS mapping as it makes a clear distinction between paved and unpaved surfaces.

How are they defined, I thought I understood OS mapping?

 

[terry_gardener]

out of curiosity i enetered my post code to my old works and it would have taken me on the a19 which is one of the busiest duall carriageways near me. i raised a bug with google and they changed it, took about 9 months though. however there is much better site than this though