What's the current best online cycling route planner for...

[GrumpyGregry]

a) England and Wales
b) France
c) Spain (Northern)
d) Portugal

Please...?

 

[TheDoctor]

Dunno about the best. but Via Michelin isn't bad if you enable the bike option.
Won't do routes longer than 200km IIRC, but the chances of me riding over 200km in a day are substantially slimmer than I am.

 

[Drago]

CycleStreets for the UK.

https://m.cyclestreets.net

They do an app too of you have one of those Android 6S phone wotsits.

 

[Glow worm]

I find this one pretty good: http://cycle.travel/map

 

[Heltor Chasca]

I find this one pretty good: http://cycle.travel/map

My favourite too. All sorts of bells and whistles on this site. And the owner is a top fellow too.

 

[graham bowers]

This comes up from time to time:

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/online-route-planner-for-plymouth-to-cambridge.212886/

 

[EatSleepRideRepeat]

I find this one pretty good: http://cycle.travel/map

Thanks for this, missed it somehow, been using http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php for years but cycle.travel has some useful extras. Still like the OS map on BikeHike though, and you can check and reduce the number of trackpoints so you don't overstretch the Garmin

 

[srw]

What kind of route planning? Overall inspiration, specific iconic roads, or detailed turn-by-turn stuff to put into a GPS?

 

[growingvegetables]

Still like the OS map on BikeHike though, ...

Me too. Bit annoying that the search function no longer defaults to the UK though. I really am NOT interested in a route to the Wakefield, near Reading and Kowloon (), north of Boston, USA

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Thanks for this, missed it somehow, been using http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php for years but cycle.travel has some useful extras. Still like the OS map on BikeHike though, and you can check and reduce the number of trackpoints so you don't overstretch the Garmin

bikehike development seems to have stopped...?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Dunno about the best. but Via Michelin isn't bad if you enable the bike option.
Won't do routes longer than 200km IIRC, but the chances of me riding over 200km in a day are substantially slimmer than I am.

Downside of that is wanting to do a journey over several days totalling more than 200km without guessing what sensible intermediate points are.