My frustration with the state of mapping apps as a runner is endless. Almost always, I'm starting at my house and also ending at my house. Clearly, the shortest

My frustration with the state of mapping apps as a runner is endless. Almost always, I'm starting at my house and also ending at my house. Clearly, the shortest route, fastest route, route that avoids highways, whatever, is to never leave in the first place. I'm already there. That isn't the point. I just want to trace out all the different ways I can possibly go and measure them. I don't want the software to find a route for me at all. I can find it myself. I just want the software to record it and measure the distance, not the way "Map My Run" and what not do by recording where you actually go via GPS, but letting me do it on the map before running it. The stupidest thing is this would be so much computationally simpler than what they really do. They wouldn't need GPS or location services at all. They wouldn't need any feed of current route status. A paper map can do this with no computation at all. I'd just like to have it on my phone and not need a ruler and string to do the measurements. For the inevitable peanut gallery, I'm aware of browser-based web apps that can do this and I use them. I'm also aware of Apple/Google's "choose waypoints" or whatever feature, which does not do what I want because it still finds routes itself between the waypoints.