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.
CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Computers, GPS, 'Smart' 'Phones
(ideally)free, no-login, custom turn by turn/gpx software?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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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...
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No such thing as free, unless you make it yourself.
Apps that don't charge physical money, make money by collecting your data, which is why you have to login. Surveillance capitalism
Posted 1 year ago # -
I've poked vaguely at Komoot and I am pretty sure there is a free option which would be enough for what you want.
Posted 1 year ago # -
As neddie says, if you're not paying for a product, you are the product.
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.
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.
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.
Posted 1 year ago # -
You could try gpx.studio.
It is donationware and lets you create a gpx of your route without signing in.
You would then need an app on your phone that lets you follow the route.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I agree Magic Earth is nice, especially the offline maps, but quite motor-oriented.
cycle.travel is also good (web only), gives turn-by-turn directions but not live
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
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I use Garmin software Basecamp
https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/software/basecamp/Maps from Open Fiets Map
https://www.openfietsmap.nl/Basecamp will allow you to create a route using whichever map. As well as exporting as a GPX, the route directions can be printed.
Edit: Realise now you want the route also done on your phone.
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@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.
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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.
Although I think it ideally does need a login. (But this is effectively a one person developed site)
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Magic Maps also once told me off for doing 155mph in Germany...
...I was on a train
the children were highly amused, the other passengers not so much
Posted 1 year ago # -
@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.
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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.
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.
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