How to get from and to lay. Online services and applications for creating bike routes

Google Maps gives you quick directions for driving, cycling, or walking. The best route will be marked in blue on the map, and all others will be marked in gray.

Some routes on Google Maps are in beta testing, so they are not available to all users. While moving along the route, pay attention to what is happening around, and take the necessary measures so as not to endanger yourself and others. If the navigation directions are not clear, follow the road signs.

Notes

• For public transport or aircraft, you cannot create a route with multiple destinations or waypoints.
• Route search is not available in some regions.
• Public transit information is provided by the shipping companies and may not be available in some areas.
• To change the route, click on the track and drag it to the desired location. Drag and drop is not supported in simplified mode.

Adding destinations

Note. To change the order of stops, find the desired destination, click on it, and drag it to a new location on the map.

Setting route parameters

To choose the best route, taking into account the traffic congestion and the availability of public transport, you can always change the date and time of your upcoming trip. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open Google Maps on your computer.
2. Get directions.
3. After you have plotted the route, press Depart now.
4. To change the travel date and time, select Departure: or Arrival:.

Note. If you have selected multiple destinations, this function will not be available.

To send a route to another user, follow these steps:

To send a route to your phone or tablet, follow these steps:

1. Open Google Maps on your computer and sign in to your account.
2. Get directions. In the left pane, click Send route to phone.
3. Send the route to the selected device, via email or SMS.

Note. You can only send routes with one destination to your phone or tablet.

For many, cycling is not just a fashionable hobby or sport. This is an opportunity to learn more about your city, its surroundings or go on an exciting hiking trip. How to draw up a cycling route, what should be taken into account and what electronic services will help you with this?

For people who are passionate about cycling, over time it becomes boring to just ride around the city. All streets and turns are already known, every path and embankment is familiar. Over time, a set of their own routes appears, and they are chosen depending on the weather, health and the need to visit some points.

In big cities, a dedicated bike path is not uncommon. The path has already been paved, and no time is needed to build it. No need to fear transport or pedestrians, refer to the map. But over time, the same track becomes uninteresting. Building your own route is what really captivates.

Features:

When setting off on a journey to new places, think: is it so important for you to build your path in advance? After all, bicycles are not cars, you can ride them almost everywhere: enter the address into the navigator, and go ahead. Nevertheless, true cycling connoisseurs make notes in notebooks, mark points on the map, and use special services to assess the terrain. Traveling is much more pleasant when you know in advance where to turn, where to rest, and where to pave the way through a green park instead of a highway. You can foresee all this if you build a route with a set of main points in advance.

Cycle paths are ideal for exploring the city. In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the service is fine-tuned: you rent a bike and follow the paved path. The departure point can be any place.

What to consider when drawing up?

• Interests. For what purpose are you going on a trip: a pleasant walk, a specific address, sightseeing, visiting designated points or cardio workout;
• Bicycle model. The road surface you are going to pave the path on may not match the capabilities of your bike;
• Landscape. It is difficult to imagine ups and downs on a paper map, especially long ones. Use digital services to explore the area in advance;
• The time you are going to spend from the moment you leave. It will be a morning or evening walk around the neighborhood, the embankment or a big bike trip for several days;
• Physical form. Assess your preparation adequately. Pedaling is not as easy as it sounds;
• Path length. It would be a mistake to plot the entire path based on mileage data alone. Consider energy costs. A 10-kilometer route in the Far East is equivalent to an almost 100-kilometer route in central Russia.

Leading the way

When all of the above has been taken into account, it is time to build a route on the map. Fortunately, you don't have to carry around an entire atlas, a pencil for marking points, and a notebook for notes now. Online maps, interactive apps, navigators and services have taken over many of the functions that previously would have had to be performed on their own. To plan a route, it is enough to mark the start and finish points on the map. More detailed elaboration involves paving the way in segments from point to point.

It will take more time to build a route in segments, but it will be easier to follow. You will know in advance:

• about ascents, after which you need to stop and rest;
• about descents;
• about the ways to avoid obstacles;
• about where there is a bike track and where it is not.

Creating a route using services

Very convenient and fast construction of cycling routes. You can familiarize yourself with the relief in advance, there is a viewing of photographs of those points where you are going to visit. The plot of heights will be created automatically, the program will calculate both the rise and fall of the height. The most popular services for cyclists:

• google Earth program;
• online services, in which the building of routes is based on Google Maps, but they provide additional useful features. These are www.bikely.com, www.gpsies.com, www.mapmyride.com.

Google earth

The program is intuitive and simple. To build a route, you simply select "My path", choose a starting point and start drawing it, mark as many points on the way as needed, and then save. If you save the file in .kml or .kmz format, you can upload it to the navigator or other services, where the viewing will be more visual. Advantages and disadvantages of the program:

Online services

All of them are based on Google Maps, but sometimes surpass them in capabilities. There are services that are made specifically for cyclists, such as gpsies.com. This map has many more paths, paths, automatic plotting of heights, calculation of arrival times and other possibilities in order to build the best route.

Cycling is fun and challenging. And if you lay out new routes in unfamiliar places, you can also make it educational.

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Get directions by car

This service allows you to quickly get directions between any cities

Russia and Abroad, and immediately see the route on the map.

What is a distance calculator for?

Look through which cities will pass the route, you will be able to decide in advance on a place to stay.

You will see the approximate fuel consumption for the entire trip and will be able to estimate the financial
expenses. You will find out how much time you spend on the road.

How do I get directions by car?

First, you need to set the starting and ending points of the route. In the calculator

There are two fields in the calculation - "city from where" and "city where". Enter in the appropriate fields

City names.

In the field "fuel consumption" enter the corresponding characteristic of your car

(in liters per 100 kilometers). In the field "fuel price" - the average price of gasoline,
with which you refuel your car.

This data is needed to calculate the total fuel consumption for the entire trip.

In the tab "additional settings for calculating distances" you can set more

Several conditions:

- "Bypassing Countries" - do not route through the territory of the specified countries.

This function is especially useful for international transport. Allows you not to drive

To the territory of countries with a visa regime and avoid customs inspections.

- "Avoiding cities" - do not lay a route through the territory of the specified

Cities. If you do not want to drive through a city, enter its name in

This field.

- "Avoiding routes" - exclude the specified routes from the calculation.

- "Through cities" - the function allows you to navigate a route through a certain

City or cities, even if they are outside the shortest route.

- "Speed \u200b\u200bon the road" - there are 4 types of roads - territorial,

Regional, highway, highway. You can exclude one

Or several types.

You can plan a route by car in one of two modes:

Shortest route - the minimum distance from one city to another;

Fastest route - minimum travel time (only

Expressways).

After you have set all the conditions, click the "calculate" button.

On the map that appears, the route will be marked with a thick red line, and all cities on the way will be marked with red markers.

The calculation results are presented in the form of a table, which indicates the length of the entire path, time in

The trip, the total fuel consumption and the amount that this fuel will cost.

The table also contains a list of all cities through which the route is laid, with

Division into regions and countries.

The results obtained can be printed on a printer and taken with you on the road instead of

Atlas. If you have the ability to access the Internet in your car (for example, via

Satellite or cellular network), you can check the route and correct it in

Depending on the circumstances.

However, remember that the calculations are based on averaged data. therefore

The results obtained are indicative only, not exact figures.

Cycling routes are laid with different goals
- a walk - where the main task is to enjoy the walk, visiting certain places with minimal expenditure of energy
- cycling - where the path is an end in itself
- movement - from A to point B, priority is the destination.

If in the old days bicycle routes were planned on a paper map in pencil, with an officer's ruler and curvimeter, today dozens of services, applications and mobile solutions are available. And each app has its own pros and cons.

Perhaps the most popular and accessible type of service today is online maps:

OpenStreetMap

Is a non-commercial web mapping project to create a detailed free and free geographic map of the world. All maps of this resource are compiled and verified by Internet users. This is how people from all over the world mark objects and keep the information up to date.
Points of interest are displayed on maps, which is very important for cycling.
Of the minuses, it should be noted that the cards are overloaded and the lack of additional functions.

Google maps

- The service is a map and satellite images of the planet Earth.
Has the ability to plot a route and wide social opportunities. But for the territory of Russia, Google is still inferior to specialized services and even to Russian Yandex.

Yandex maps

- Yandex search and information mapping service. For Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, only the company's own cards are used, which are updated monthly.
So Yandex, in comparison with other services, scrupulously demonstrates all the primers and even the paths of Russia and the CIS. The usability and logic that builds navigation routes in Yandex is superb.

Bikemap

Is the most famous site among cyclists.
It contains information on over 2 million cycling routes around the world. Popular and little-known bike paths, their detailed descriptions, amateur routes, etc. - all this is marked on the maps and is available online. You can not only view ready-made routes, but also create your own and share them with other users of the service!

On the main page of Bikemap, you must enter the name of the city in the search box.

On the interactive map, icons indicate all available routes (official and amateur), and to the left of it are the most interesting nearby ones based on user ratings.

The map can be moved, scaled, change the view mode.

When you click on the icon, a page for a detailed description of the route will open, where you can:

• Get to know the route in detail.
• View a graph of heights, which can be used to determine the future load.
• Find out which user made the route
• Save the route to your bookmarks or mark it as passed
• Add a comment
• Send link to social networks
• Download route in KML or GPX format

Example of a route on Bikemap:

From the track storage section, Bikemap is the leader today.

Open Cycle Map

It is a child project of Open Street Map. It is used to indicate bike paths, bicycle parking, various amenities and other things that are associated with rides on a two-wheeled iron horse.

A motley map of Europe makes it clear where this service is really popular. Alas, in Russia and the CIS, the situation is strictly opposite.
We draw a conclusion: for a fascinating and interesting journey across Europe by bicycle, this is the best service.

GPSies

With GPSies, you can view and download tracks recorded with your GPS device. Tracks can be downloaded to your personal GPS device.

A very old and reliable track storage service from Germany. A huge database of covered tracks all over Russia may appeal to many "old school" cyclists, but these days a weak native application, outdated design and not very clear logic of work scare off more users than they attract.

- recording GPS routes and more.

MyTracks is a great Android app - MyTracks, available for free on the Android Market. However, we are not talking about any route building.

Sports trackers

Endomondo

Endomondo is a free app and website. One of the old trackers. Today, there are about 20 million users of the program on all major platforms.

A huge amount of input data, interesting calculations and statistics (however, detailed statistics are available only in the paid version).

Another of the old-timers of the market. The program appeared quite a long time ago and was immediately focused on cyclists, later functions for training in other sports appeared.
This is the only application that allows you to analyze areas taking into account the relief.
Simple Google navigation, simple interface and trouble-free operation even on weak smartphones. A decent tracker without unnecessary features, which is popular with hundreds of thousands of users.

You can also plan a route manually, armed with a map, pencil and ruler. But if you find yourself on the route planner page, then another, often more convenient option is possible - laying a route online, one of which is offered to you on our site.

There are two types of routing: manual and automatic.

• With manual routing, you plot a series of points on the map, forming an arbitrary route.
• With automatic compilation, you need to specify the start and end points, and our service will lay the optimal route itself, calculating the shortest path, taking into account the traffic rules and the current traffic situation.

On the compiled route you will see all highways and nearby intersections, which will be very useful for motorists and travelers. A map with a route in the city of Moscow will allow you to plan a route and will not let you get lost in an unfamiliar place.

To create a route on a map of Moscow, enter the starting point in the first field of the form below and the end point in the second ole. Then indicate how you will travel to the final destination by clicking on the appropriate button - "By car", "On foot" or by Public transport. After that, click on the button "Show route".