http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: (ideally)free, no-login, custom turn by turn/gpx software? en Sat, 16 May 2026 20:23:10 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376479 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:56:27 +0000 Yodhrin 376479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OsmAnd is free and did the job thanks for the recommendation - and the web version lets you plot routes and save them with no login at all, lovely.</p> <p>Honestly I think people have some Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to the modern internet, it wasn't *that* long ago where the majority of stuff online that wasn't a store for physical goods was in fact actually-properly free, made by people who just thought it would be cool, and provided without any demands on your personal data. It's the current situation that is - or should be - the aberration. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376472 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:04:33 +0000 davey2wheels 376472@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Arellcat, yeah, the breadcrumb trail is defined by track points, a route by waypoints. The head unit would needed to have had a compatible map and support routing to get the turn by turn directions. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376469 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:40:38 +0000 neddie 376469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Magic Maps also once told me off for doing 155mph in Germany...</p> <p>...I was on a train</p> <p>the children were highly amused, the other passengers not so much </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376467 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:13:32 +0000 chrisfl 376467@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>cycle.travel does now have apps so will do live navigation. I highly recommend it. You can plan on the cycle.travel website, but I think it also allows imports.</p> <p>Although I think it ideally does need a login. (But this is effectively a one person developed site) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376466 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:00:32 +0000 Arellcat 376466@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@davey2wheels, that's what I used to do with my old Garmin. I would create tracks in Basecamp and then load them into my device to follow. It worked, more or less, but since it was just a breadcrumb trail displayed, it didn't give me any turn-by-turn announcements. I never worked out how to combine the two. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376465 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:54:00 +0000 davey2wheels 376465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I use Garmin software Basecamp<br /> <a href="https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/software/basecamp/" rel="nofollow">https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/software/basecamp/</a></p> <p>Maps from Open Fiets Map<br /> <a href="https://www.openfietsmap.nl/" rel="nofollow">https://www.openfietsmap.nl/</a></p> <p>Basecamp will allow you to create a route using whichever map. As well as exporting as a GPX, the route directions can be printed.</p> <p>Edit: Realise now you want the route also done on your phone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376464 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:53:16 +0000 neddie 376464@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I agree Magic Earth is nice, especially the offline maps, but quite motor-oriented.</p> <p>cycle.travel is also good (web only), gives turn-by-turn directions but not live</p> <p>And the CycleStreets.net app will also give not-live turn-by-turn, but is really awkward to program any route that's not the one they choose </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376462 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:30:45 +0000 acsimpson 376462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You could try gpx.studio.</p> <p>It is donationware and lets you create a gpx of your route without signing in.</p> <p>You would then need an app on your phone that lets you follow the route. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376461 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 10:01:42 +0000 Arellcat 376461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As neddie says, if you're not paying for a product, <em>you</em> are the product.</p> <p>RidewithGPS app and route planner might be the best option for what you need. It costs some money after the trial period but may be worth it.</p> <p>I also think OsmAnd will do this. It's a hugely capable app. Once you get your head around using it, and I never could, you will probably want to pay for it.</p> <p>I use Magic Earth for turn-by-turn navigation on my motorbike, but it's more like a TomTom and you can't load a routeful of waypoints ahead of schedule. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376460 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:58:29 +0000 fimm 376460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've poked vaguely at Komoot and I am pretty sure there is a free option which would be enough for what you want. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376459 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:45:12 +0000 neddie 376459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No such thing as free, unless you make it yourself.</p> <p>Apps that don't charge physical money, make money by collecting your data, which is why you have to login. Surveillance capitalism </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376457 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:07:21 +0000 fimm 376457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know of a way to do that without setting up an account on the system I'm using. You can give it as little personal information as possible. I like Komoot, I don't think it costs... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21609#post-376455 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:10:25 +0000 Yodhrin 376455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd like to make a custom route and get turn by turn directions to follow that route *that I've picked* on my phone, can anyone advise how to actually do that apparently hugely complex thing? Google will only give navigation directions on their crappy pregen routes and I just wasted half an hour meticulously plotting a route out into West Lothian on JustGoRide(any attempt to click more than a turn ahead and it will send you off kilometres out of your way to put you on the canal toepath) only for it to insist I have to log in to save the route, and wiped all my progress. Feeling a smidge peeved. </p>