GPX Cycle Route Help

[SpeedyCannon]

Hi guys.

Just wanting to know where people get there .gpx file cycling routes from the web? I have been using www.cycle-route.com, but wanting to know if there are any better sites available on the web?

I have been using my iphone and an app called MotionX-GPS which suits me dandy.

 

[PpPete]

I use bikehike.co.uk and make up my own routes.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I do what PpPete does

 

[benb]

I use either ridewithgps.com or bikeroutetoaster.com, both of which are excellent. If your GPS is a Garmin, they can output tcx files which allow more data points. They also have the Cycle OSM maps which are fab for planning offroad routes.

 

[SpeedyCannon]

That bikehike is great, thanks for that PpPete and Greg. There was a route in cycling weekly I want to do so I mapped it out using bikehire and converted it to gpx and downloaded to my iphone......voila!

Not seen the ridewithgps or bikeroutetoaster before benb will check them out....Thanks

 

[RoyW]

You can also use Google Maps which can be a lot easier to prodcue the actual route. You need to use a bit of wizardry and go to another site to create a gpx file though. There is a site online with instructions of how to do it:

Creating a route using google maps

Converting your google map route to gpx

Just another alternative...

 

[HLaB]

There's tons of them out there, I use the afore mentioned ridewithgps, garmin connect and occasionally bikely but more often I use the rwgps site as it creates good tcx files with automatic waypoints in addition to simplified gpx routes and detailed gpx tracks.

 

[benb]

You can also use Google Maps which can be a lot easier to prodcue the actual route. You need to use a bit of wizardry and go to another site to create a gpx file though. There is a site online with instructions of how to do it:

Creating a route using google maps

Converting your google map route to gpx

Just another alternative...

Trouble is, Google maps doesn't have the open streetmap cycle route integration.

 

[RoyW]

benb is quite right. I am a roadie and was coming at it from a road perspective.

My personal experience using routing systems that use OSM is that they can take you on overly circulous routes though. For instance using http://www.cyclestreets.net/ on my regular commute, if I route using OSM it adds 2 miles and about 10 traffic lights to my normal route - and misses the actual main cycle path in favour of some residential back streets!

That might just be a quirk and it probably works fine but since that experiment I haven't tried to use it again.


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[benb]

benb is quite right. I am a roadie and was coming at it from a road perspective.

My personal experience using routing systems that use OSM is that they can take you on overly circulous routes though. For instance using http://www.cyclestreets.net/ on my regular commute, if I route using OSM it adds 2 miles and about 10 traffic lights to my normal route - and misses the actual main cycle path in favour of some residential back streets!

That might just be a quirk and it probably works fine but since that experiment I haven't tried to use it again.


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Website: http://www.landsend-...hnogroats.co.uk
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What I like to do is get cyclestreets to auto route it, then upload the GPX into bikeroutetoaster to tweak it before loading it onto my GPS.

 

[RoyW]

That sounds like a good idea. I hadn't thought of doing it that way - single layer thinker see ;¬)



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