Cycle Travel Question
Cycle Travel Question
I am doing a ride between Nottingham and Oxford and have found this excellent route planner and site
http://cycle.travel/ Click on 'map' in the top bar and you get to the map and route-planner.
The map itself is intended to highlight important stuff for cyclists, so minor roads don't disappear into the background, NCN routes are shown (but not to the exclusion of all else), there's subtle contours and hillshading
The route-planner is draggable like Googles Maps , but more bike-friendly. It likes minor roads and traffic-free paths, perfect for my wife the route planner also takes account of surfaces
Another nice feature is the ability to click a 'route' you have made in 'Cycle Travel' and get a Google Street view rendition of the route at a particular point
Turn-by-turn directions PDF also shows the place names along the route so you can navigate through the countryside by going from one village to the next
Also allows you to save the route as a GPX track or route file, TCX file or KML file
thank you Richard for all your hard work, we cant thank you enough,we have been to some beautiful roads, tracks, etc in France\UK using cycle travel
Dr X. Lin MD & Stuart Lunn
http://cycle.travel/ Click on 'map' in the top bar and you get to the map and route-planner.
The map itself is intended to highlight important stuff for cyclists, so minor roads don't disappear into the background, NCN routes are shown (but not to the exclusion of all else), there's subtle contours and hillshading
The route-planner is draggable like Googles Maps , but more bike-friendly. It likes minor roads and traffic-free paths, perfect for my wife the route planner also takes account of surfaces
Another nice feature is the ability to click a 'route' you have made in 'Cycle Travel' and get a Google Street view rendition of the route at a particular point
Turn-by-turn directions PDF also shows the place names along the route so you can navigate through the countryside by going from one village to the next
Also allows you to save the route as a GPX track or route file, TCX file or KML file
thank you Richard for all your hard work, we cant thank you enough,we have been to some beautiful roads, tracks, etc in France\UK using cycle travel
Dr X. Lin MD & Stuart Lunn
Last edited by stu1102 on 26 Jun 2020, 8:17pm, edited 12 times in total.
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I'd be interested in any gpx route you may devise between Nottingham and Oxford - any chance of a PM for you to send it to me?
Sweep
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That looks rather good at first glance - thanks for the tip.
S
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
(on the look out for Armageddon, on board a Brompton nano & ever-changing Moultons)
Re: New Route Planner
It was previously commented on by CJ, on the Forum, here
It is now my planner of preference.
The website author - Richard Fairhurst - is a member of this forum. Rules prevent him from promoting it himself here, but that does not stop others from singing its praises.
It is now my planner of preference.
The website author - Richard Fairhurst - is a member of this forum. Rules prevent him from promoting it himself here, but that does not stop others from singing its praises.
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Thanks Graham that's a very useful thread you've highlighted there in regards to this planner.....certainly aided my understanding
Sweep : have a go with planning a route between Nottingham and Oxord, if you really get stuck let me know.....it really is first class
Sweep : have a go with planning a route between Nottingham and Oxord, if you really get stuck let me know.....it really is first class
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It looks a bit - odd. I'll stick with the Strava planner.
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That's actually pretty good. Big up Richard Fairhurst.
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Looks interesting. I would like to support this because it is British.
I registered and it said it would send me an email, but it didn't?
Al
I registered and it said it would send me an email, but it didn't?
Al
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Thanks for all the kind comments! I wanted to build a route-planner that followed the sort of routes that I (and I think many other UK cyclists) enjoy - quiet roads but not at the cost of impossible gradients, cycleways but not quagmires, and with a background map that shows minor roads prominently. Oh, and pubs and cafés.
Still lots to do (never mind the rest of the site!) but the nice comments mean a lot - thanks.
Al - sorry, the eternal curse of registration mails falling victim to spamtraps I think. I've manually enabled your account; anyone else having problems, do send me a PM and I'll do the same.
Still lots to do (never mind the rest of the site!) but the nice comments mean a lot - thanks.
Al - sorry, the eternal curse of registration mails falling victim to spamtraps I think. I've manually enabled your account; anyone else having problems, do send me a PM and I'll do the same.
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Re: New Route Planner
Tried using this to plot the route for the Rutland and Beyond Audax I'm doing this weekend. I failed to get the route to go along the A47 from the start on Haynes Road (Leicester) so gave up after 10 minutes trying. Other issues were that I wanted to scale the map greater than was allowed and that it wan't easily apparent how you edited the route. Not useable for me at the present unfortunately.
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Don't be discouraged by the odd negative comment. I had a quick play when you first went public and thought it was excellent. I recently recommended it to an End-to-Ender and she thought it was fantastic.
Congratulations
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@freeflow - it's not really a 'plotting tool', to be honest; if you know the exact route you want to follow, something like BikeHike or RideWithGPS will suit you much better.
cycle.travel is designed as a route-finder rather than a plotter; you put in the places you want to go, and it finds a nice quiet route between them. The "nice quiet route" criterion rules out the A47, because it'll always try to route away from busy roads like that. I used to live just outside Uppingham and there was absolutely no way you'd have got me on the A47 on my bike, but you may be tougher than me.
cycle.travel is designed as a route-finder rather than a plotter; you put in the places you want to go, and it finds a nice quiet route between them. The "nice quiet route" criterion rules out the A47, because it'll always try to route away from busy roads like that. I used to live just outside Uppingham and there was absolutely no way you'd have got me on the A47 on my bike, but you may be tougher than me.
cycle.travel - maps, journey-planner, route guides and city guides
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I like this a lot, just tried out the mapping by putting in a circular route for an area I know well and it came up with a lovely route, part of which would never have occurred to me.
Excellent.
Excellent.
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@freeflow - it's not really a 'plotting tool', to be honest;
No problem then. I was just fooled by the topic title. I was hopeful as mapmyride has been very laggy over the past few weeks.