Cycle route apps that 'talk'

[Kazgriki]

Google maps is great for planning cycle routes across London and talking you through the route (with your phone mounted on the handlebars) However, the routes suggested aren't always the safest/quietest for cycling. Does anyone know of a city cycle route planner app that tells you directions as you cycle along the route?

[francovendee]

Google maps is great for planning cycle routes across London and talking you through the route (with your phone mounted on the handlebars) However, the routes suggested aren't always the safest/quietest for cycling. Does anyone know of a city cycle route planner app that tells you directions as you cycle along the route?

Osmand does this but I'm not keen on it's planning. Instead I load GPX tracks created on CycleTravel.

[Jdsk]

Komoot:
https://support.komoot.com/hc/en-us/art ... navigation

(I don't use it.)

Jonathan

[Richard Fairhurst]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

[Jdsk]

Sounds (!) good.

Thanks, Richard.

Jonathan

[simonhill]

You can amend (redirect) the Google routes by adding waypoints. I presume you use the bike option in creating them.

[Pendodave]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

I'm almost afraid to ask about the droid version...
In answer to the OP, I do the same as one of the posts above - cycle.travel gpx loaded into osmand. Works just fine.

[DaveReading]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

I'm almost afraid to ask about the droid version...

OK, I will then.

Hopefully 4.4.

[al_yrpal]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

I'm almost afraid to ask about the droid version...
In answer to the OP, I do the same as one of the posts above - cycle.travel gpx loaded into osmand. Works just fine.

Been using that combo for a few years. Annoying that it also voices turns in the road. Osmand + is pretty good on its own too

[cycle tramp]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

That sounds bloomin' amazing - Somerset West and Taunton Council have decided that we are in the middle of an ecological emergency (which is about ten years too late) and are looking at ways to mitigate the worst of a very bad situation.. I have attempted to explain that a well designed net work of cycle ways may assist both local travel as well as national travel (after all Somerset is one of the counties that you pass through when doing Lejog).. how easy would it be to create a route which people can follow, so that it can be downloaded by people cycling through Somerset doing Lejog? And what would be the copyright/legal implications of the council having it stored on their webpage for access?

[Richard Fairhurst]

I'm almost afraid to ask about the droid version...

I'll do an Android version in due course - in reality I think it's unlikely to be this year (there's only one of me and I don't really have any experience in Android development!) but it's something I'd like to do.

[PH]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months
(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

Look forward to trying that.

[richardfm]

I'm almost afraid to ask about the droid version...

I'll do an Android version in due course - in reality I think it's unlikely to be this year (there's only one of me and I don't really have any experience in Android development!) but it's something I'd like to do.

A learning opportunity

[francovendee]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

Any sign of an android version coming soon?

[Psamathe]

cycle.travel iPhone app will do this in a couple of months :D

(Spent much of the week refining the turn-by-turn directions!)

Any sign of an android version coming soon?

See viewtopic.php?p=1621003#p1621003 few posts up

Ian