Plot-a-Route just got better

https://www.plotaroute.com is, well a website for plotting routes. It works very well. Until earlier today though you could not explicitly do bike route routing, like on google maps.

Well they just announced that bike routing is supported. If you dig mapping routes this website is great, and now it's better than google maps. Well, actually it uses the google maps api, but if you check it out you'll know what I mean.

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Permalink Reply by Steve G on November 20, 2015 at 9:12am

MapMyRide is excellent too.

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Permalink Reply by Steve G on November 20, 2015 at 10:22am

Geez. I meant to write RideWithGPS, not MapMyRide. I think my helmet is on too tight!

Yeah, MapMyRide doesn't hold a candle to the other two as far as routing goes.

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Permalink Reply by Larry Mysz on November 20, 2015 at 12:13pm

That's a very nice site. Thank you.

I especially like the way it renders the route map, but still prefer the way RideWithGPS presents both total distance and leg distance at turns on the cue sheets. Maybe one can get the best of both worlds by transferring routes from one site to the other via gpx files.

Unfortunately, it suffers from the same recent change affecting google maps and all sites that use the google maps API. Since approx 11/06/2015 the Google Maps API no longer renders most bike routes and bike paths when zoomed out beyond zoom level 13. They used to be visible out to zoom level 9. The change makes it hard to get an overview of bike route and path locations for tour planning.

Fortunately, the OSM cycling map, available on PlotARoute and RideWithGPS still works well at the farther out zooms.