Strava does something interesting here with their route planner. It's a bit finicky, but it gravitates toward public segments for either running or cycling. A s

Strava does something interesting here with their route planner. It's a bit finicky, but it gravitates toward public segments for either running or cycling. A segment on Strava is like a well-known running route or a chunk of a path, and when you upload an activity it finds which segments you went along so you can see how your results change over time, and what other people are doing. So it generally gives better (or at least safer) routes than Google Maps since it's based on what people actually do :) Alas, it takes a lot of effort to actually build a route with the thing.