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Manual route planning for walkers/runners/cyclers. My idea was that there are lots of fitness style apps that track where you've gone, how fast and so on, but
by zarify 13y ago
Manual route planning for walkers/runners/cyclers.
My idea was that there are lots of fitness style apps that track where you've gone, how fast and so on, but I haven't seen anything that lets you plan your route out beforehand, see how long it'll be and then estimate how long it will take. I was thinking drawing a simple overlay on a map interface. I recently got back into walking/running and wanted to slowly ramp up what I did, but wanted a route I could get all the way through (not run until I can't, then have to still get back) so wanted to plan ahead, and also allow for cuts through parks, bush trails and so on.
- graup 13y agoAlso, add elevation information. Especially for cycling, would be great to see how a slightly longer route compares to a shorter one with bigger ascents. Wrote this, googled it and actually found something fairly useful: http://www.doogal.co.uk/RouteElevation.php http://www.doogal.co.uk/RouteElevation.php
- zarify 13y agoI figured there'd be some traditional route planning already done. The problem with a lot of this is it's looking for the most efficient route, rather than the route someone actually wants (eg if I want to do a circuit from my house). Agreed that elevation is a good thing too though.
- jalonso510 13y agohave you tried something like www.gmap-pedometer.com? that's how i plan my routes and I've been pretty happy with it.
- zarify 13y agoI hadn't, that actually looks pretty good. Thanks :)
- xelfer 13y agoGarmin connect can do this, as can runkeeper: http://runkeeper.com/search/routes http://runkeeper.com/search/routes. I'm sure mapmyrun and others allow it as well? you point and click along the route and it calculates the distance for you, garmin even tells you expected time to complete.