Given the recent Strava price increase announcement, and the fact most people kept the premium for routes only, creating this as place for Strava routes alternatives for search purposes. If others have alternatives, pay or free please list below and we will update this post. https://ridewithgps.c…

#2 Screenshot from Komoot. I do more road planning with it, but it seems to work fine for mtb, too. [image]

Does Komoot have heatmaps and in particular good heatmaps that show the volume usage of a path? I’ve played around with Komoot in the past and I’m looking at it again because of this thread, but can’t find anything about such functionality and it would help for Komoot, because I’ve noticed it doesn…

No they don’t. I guess this is because Komoot is primarily used for planning, not tracking your activities. So they don’t have that much data to show. On sport specific maps (premium feature) you do see “singletrack difficulty grades for mtb” which may also help to locate routes. But not how popular…

I see no one mentioned it yet, but for quick routing on the iPhone my go to is Easy Route app. It’s lightweight, super simple and has one big advantage over all the bigger apps - very fast and intuitive interface. For some reason other routing apps haven’t figured out how to easily create waypoints…

Thanks. I’ll have another look at Komoot :+1:

[image] Sootti: No they don’t. I guess this is because Komoot is primarily used for planning, not tracking your activities. So they don’t have that much data to show. On sport specific maps (premium feature) you do see “singletrack difficulty grades for mtb” which may also help to locate routes.…

Im not sure if Garmin heat maps relies on a ride being public. If so most folk I know keep their Garmin Connect file private as I don’t think GC has privacy zones.

Not really any alternatives. The ability to find routes with segments is unmatched

I have used Plotaroute for years, including when I was Club Run Co-ordinator for a local CC. Is good for building and sharing routes, which can easily be dowloaded as GPX, etc. and direct to some GPS devices (Garmin, etc.). There is a free option with some advertising or a paid for “premium” optio…

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HLaB January 18, 2023, 10:35pm 49

Have you got Garmin Connect? GC does Automatic Routing too. With GC you can select the direction too which when it windy I want to do.

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