Favorite Cycling GPS app?

[Greg Foulke]

I used Google maps for a ride and it chose some streets I would not have chosen to ride on a bike (no shoulder or bike lane). Do any of you have a favorite cycling GPS that is good about picking streets friendly to cyclists?

 

[Ian Moone]

I chose to Delete anything to do with Google, and have been using Map my Ride for about 2 years now. ?

 

[Greg Foulke]

I chose to Delete anything to do with Google, and have been using Map my Ride for about 2 years now. ?

How do you set a destination in Map My Ride and let the app give you turn by turn directions? I have been messing with it for a while and cannot find that function.

 

[Ian Moone]

How do you set a destination in Map My Ride and let the app give you turn by turn directions? I have been messing with it for a while and cannot find that function.

I think they made some updates to Map my ride, so I need to play with it myself. I haven't used it since last fall, it'll be interesting to see what they did with it. ?

 

[Greg Foulke]

I’m experimenting with Strava. It uses its heat map stats to find the most popular bike routes.

On the Record page, bottom left corner, the squiggly line. You use your finger to draw a route, Strava uses the heat map data to plot it. I found some interesting back roads—not on any map—using it.

I figured out to load/build a route... you do it on the Strava website, which is very easy to use. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Ride With GPS has that feature as well. I've been using it happily for two years now

 

[Marci jo]

I used Google maps for a ride and it chose some streets I would not have chosen to ride on a bike (no shoulder or bike lane). Do any of you have a favorite cycling GPS that is good about picking streets friendly to cyclists?

I have used both Ride With GPS and Map My Ride. Like them both.

 

[Greg Foulke]

Finding that the Ride With GPS app is able to pick up the dedicated walk/bike paths in my town, and the Strava app is not. Maybe I am missing a setting.

 

[christob]

I tend to look at Google Maps on a PC or my phone, for a pre-check of a route I want to take for the first time, and when I'm on the bike and want to deviate from my plans.
I've used Google Maps on a PC to customize a route, when planning a new one, with their drag-and-drop feature.
I also recently used Ride with GPS (the free/entry-level version) to map out a route for a group ride, which included riding on a 2-block stretch of road that is closed to vehicles -- Google Maps wouldn't let me "drag my route line" onto that little stretch no matter what I tried... but Ride WGPS would let me do it with the "draw a line" feature.

 

[Saratoga Dave]

That "draw a line" thing is handy as hell. Right down the road from us along the Erie Canal is a point where the neighborhood street comes within 100 feet of the towpath road where there is a right of way access... can't get there from here using the Roads option but the line thing gets it done every time. Took me awhile to figure it out in the beginning, though.

 

[Dewey]

Not an app but before I got a smartphone data plan when I was riding offline I used http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/ to convert Google maps .kml bicycle route files to .gpx files to overlay a route line over an open street map file on a free GPS phone app. A bit clunky and redundant now I have a data plan.