Cycle.travel is great!

Ive just completed a trip from Naples via Dunkirk to Newton Abbot. 2500km. Very cold in the first 2 weeks! Camping.

I decided to use a mobile phone for nav and bought one with a massive battery, waterproof and loud loudspeaker. Nomu s10. I had OSMAND and Naviki navigation apps. As we were not quite sure where we wanted to go, we did not pre plan a gpx for the whole route but used the apps and c.t do route us in sections.

OSMAND native routing is fairly useless as it cant calculate long routes and it contstantly tries to use the tiniest paths. Naviki was good in "Racing bike" mode but has a horrible map. I tested Komoot extensively but rebel at being "forced" to do social media and it also presented some crazy routing.

In the end the best solution was to let Cycle.travel decide the route (generally "paved"), download, and let OSMAND render it using voice turn by turn. Voice turn by turn uses and keeping screen off uses less battery (and I couldnt find a satisfactory way of mounting a device on my recumbent handlebars anyway). I had the phone in a front pocket.

C.T gives the best routes and we eventually totally trusted it. Also the web interface is easy to use on a mobile.

Many thanks indeed. Ive tried all the apps and websites and they all have deal breakers. C.T + OSMAND works best for me.

Dover Home

515km

Stops at Folkestone, Brighton, Burley, Litton Cheney

Goeschenen Dunkirk

Goeschenen to Dunkirk. 1029 km

9 stops.

Brunnen

Pratteln

Weisweil

Saverne

Verdun

Charleville

La Louviere x2

Ieper

Naples Chiasso

Naples to Chiasso. 1049 km 9 days

Stops at -

Minturno, Latina, Formello, Castiglione del Lago, Laterina, Florence x2, Lago Suviana, Near Cremona, Como/Chiasso

Suddenly I cant download gpx files!

Hi, I really like cycle.travel. Used it last week for a trip to portsmouth.

We are planning a trip back to uk from Naples in a month. I want to use OSMAND with cycle.travel routes.

I have a problem - can anyone help.

I plan to take an old but good chinese inew android 5.1 phone for cycle.travel gpx downloads, all my route storage and osmand use. I will have my other phone for nav backup and making calls etc.

The problem is, all of a sudden I cannot download c-t gpx files to the inew phone. I get a stuttering download icon, it says the download is queued and then fails. My other phone and 2 tablets work fine! I reset the inew but its still the same. Loads of storage.

The route Ive repeatedly been trying to download is small (Newton Abbot area to West Lulworth)

Any ideas?