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There are a couple of features that I keep wishing the web site had when I'm planning a route:
1) I would love to be able to display just a subset of the routes that I have in a folder. There's already a checkbox next to the routes and a drop down list of things you can do with the selected routes. It would be nice if one of the things you can do is choose to display (or to hide) the selected routes when you click the map symbol to display the folder. I hope that makes sense. When planning a trip, I end up with a bunch of routes in a folder and often want to compare just two or three alternatives I'm considering for part of the route. Or sometimes I want to look at a subset of the routes I've saved to see how I might connect them. I end up having to create a bunch of folders and move routes back and forth between them to do these things that would be done much more easily if I could just choose which routes would be displayed in the folder view.
2) When I'm planning a route in a part of the world I'm not yet familiar with, I'll often hear about a a town (or something else that can be found on a map) and want to know where it is in relation to my route. It would be nice if there were a way for me to enter the town's name and have it identified in some way on the map. My workaround is to open a separate cycle.travel tab in the browser, open a fresh map, use the route starting point field to search for the town and put a marker there, then return to the tab where my route is loaded and refresh to pick up the new marker. It works, but it's something that I do so often that I wish it were more streamlined.
I often have the gps coordinates of a place I want to go (from google maps or from booking.com, etc). I love that I can use the coordinates as the destination in the web app but it doesn't seem to work in the ios app.
I cycled part of the Transandalus (https://www.transandalus.org/#!/) in Spain a couple of years ago and I'm thinking about going back to the rest of it, except that this time, I want to cycle only on quiet paved/tarmac roads, well graded dirt roads and via verde type paths. In other words, exactly the kind of surfaces and routes that cycle.travel is great at selecting. What I'd like to do is roughly follow the Transandalus route, which is designed for mountain bikes, but do it on surfaces that I can handle on a road bike.
So, I'm looking for advice about how to use the cycle.travel website to do this. The Trandandlus is 2000km and cycle.travel objected to the size when I tried to import the whole gpx file at once. I can certainly break it up, just thought I'd seek advice from more experienced cycle.travel users before diving in. My hope is to be able to easily compare the original route and the cycle.travel plotted route on a map.
I just started trying to use cycle.travel in safari on my iPhone to plan routes, since I won’t have a desktop on the road with me. I miss the “busy road”, “paved road”, “unpaved road”, etc statistics section. Is that info available on the web for small screens interface? Not sure if I don’t know where to look or if it’s been omitted.
The only way I’ve found to see a google street view of a location that isn’t on the planned route (but that I’m considering going to) is to change the route to include it and then reverse the change. Is there an easier way to see a street view of points near to but not on the route?
Hi, I'm new to cycle.travel, but very excited to have found it! I'm trying to find a nice, safe route between 2 cities that are a couple of hundred miles apart in an area I'm completely unfamiliar with. I'm using cycle.travel on a computer. There are two things I'd like to do but don't see how to do them.
1. Under "route summary" where it shows "busy road", "paved road", etc, I'd like to click "busy road" and see the sections of my tentative route that this applies to so that I can look at those parts more closely and decide whether I want to find an alternative. I see how paved vs unpaved is color coded on the route, but how do I find the "busy" or "pushing" sections?
2. I'd like to see the "any", "paved" and "gravel" routes altogether on the map so that I can compare them. Is there a way to do that on cycle.travel or would I have to export them to another app?
Thanks for any suggestions you may have, Terri
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