Using Route Planner

Use our simple yet powerful Route Planner to create and edit routes, with automatic routing along trails and roads.

It is fully mobile-friendly so works great on your computer, phone or tablet.

• Click on your starting point, then click on further points to add to your route. A route will be built from point to point.
• Click  or  to select whether cycling or walking routes should be chosen.
• Click  if you want straight lines between points, with no automatic routing. This is on the same popup menu as  and .
• Press  to undo the last step. The last 20 steps can be undone
• Drag a point marker to edit the route.
• Click on the route line to insert a new edit point marker (white) into the route.
• If you want to add a new point at the end of the route that lies where the route line already is (for example on the return leg of an out-and-back route) click just to the side of the route line. This will add rather than insert the point, and it will either snap automatically to the right path or you can drag it into place.
• Double-click on a point marker to remove it.  Alternatively you can right-click on the marker(or on mobile, long-press (press and hold) on the marker).
• Press  to save and  (at the top-right) to exit when you are done.
• Additional tools are in the  menu at the bottom-left.
  • Use the Place name box to search for a place name, address or latitude,longitude.
  • Show current location will recenter the map on your location (if known).
  • For both of these, the resulting location will offer a popup: choose Add to route to start building your route from this spot, or just close the popup.  If you have our Premium option you will also have the options Set as route start/end to move the start/finish of the route (eg if you've just searched for your hotel!) to this location, and Add waypoint to add a waypoint at that exact place.
  • Distance markers will hide or show mile/km markers on your route line. You can click on a distance marker to insert a new edit (white) marker there.
  • Reverse route will flip the direction of your route.
  • Add return leg will create the return leg of an "out and back" route after you have created the outbound leg.
  • Center map on click to have the map automatically pan to recenter each time you click to add a new route point.

Our Premium option unlocks a large number of features in Planner, including:

• Click  to view the elevation profile and statistics of your route.
• Right-click on a location on the map (or on mobile, long-press (press and hold)) to show a popup where you can choose Set as route start/end to change the start/end point (eg to your house or hotel) of the route.  You can also use this option when searching for an address or your current location, see above.
• Click on  to add up to 10 waypoints. This is on the same popup menu as  and . Click on the waypoint to edit it.
• Use advanced walking and cycling routing options from Graphhopper and Google.
• Show Distance Markers along your route path.
• Edit routes that you have imported or uploaded
• Organize your routes into named Collections, and you can add new routes automatically to a collection when you save it in Planner.

You can also import routes or connect to route planning tools available at sites like Strava, Ride with GPS and MapMyRun.