google maps is a nice go-to service but not a good route planner because it is aggressive about snapping to the grid (streets it knows about). When I plan my r

google maps is a nice go-to service but not a good route planner because it is aggressive about snapping to the grid (streets it knows about). When I plan my route on garmin I am not getting a turn-by-turn list but rather a gps trace to follow, so I can plan the route to go arbitrarily anywhere I want. Personally I use the strava heat map and garmin to do everything since that represents where people actually go and not what some algorithm thinks will be good.