Is there any route making software that show road types? I’m in an unfamiliar area with lots of rock roads that I’d like to avoid. Is there a trick to find out road types I’m not aware of?

As far as I know, Komoot shows the road surface, but I haven’t used it myself.

You have to be a paying subscriber but the Strava route builder will show paved/unpaved.

Strava Route planning lets you spec road types. No idea how accurate it is. RidewithGPS which I much prefer, does not. Many of my long distance mapped routes using this service have taken me on gravel and dirt paths which adds an extra level of adventure for sure…

Very satisfied with Komoot. Have planned ~4000km of different routes. Surface database have mistaken gravel for asphalt/paved road in ~10km. Only thing I miss compared to Garmin Connect courses is generating random routes with specified distance and general direction.

Komoot does show surfaces, but I find it really awkward compared to ride with gps for example to plan a route. From what I can work out from my trial period is it is great if planning a point to point trip. The first thing when planning a route seems to be to state your destination and whether you …

You’re right, Komoot is lacking in this department. Didn’t bother me, I have already created ~30 routes with roughly 20km distance increments with Garmin Connect random courses generator (30km to 320km) and exported those to Komoot for road surface checking. All the courses cover my outdoor workout …

I had no idea! I’ve just been using Garmin to do my routes, and never bothered to look into strava’s even though I pay for it. Thanks for the heads up!

Strava’s surface definitions can range from good to “not so good”. It’s better than anything else available but a good test is to map out some roads you know that are paved and unpaved to see what it shows. They have paved, dirt and unknown. My experience is that “unknown” category is 50/50 pave…

I was playing around with it last night and it seems to be hit or miss. It marks the state highway near me as unknown, so that’s fun.

The fact that you can’t import a GPX file into the Strava system to check road status really sucks and is plain stupid. Heck, you can’t even convert a ride you did into a Strava route… But my most recent 3 miles of gravel that RideWithGPS took me on is identified as “Not Paved” in Strava. That woul…

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