[whyeyebike]

I have a Garmin Forerunner 305 that I love. But it has no base maps so it doesn't have the funcionality of the Edge series of GPS units. That being said, I have been able to create my own "courses" with track points to create my own personal "turn by turn" mapping while on rides. It works great!!!! I use Bike Route Toaster for all my mapping, cue sheets and tcx downloads.

However, I am always looking for the newest (and best) ways to create routes. Does anyone have a good online (or even software based) tool that they use for creating bike routes? I have used mapmyride before but don't seem to get the same versatility that I get with bikeroutetoaster.

Ride on!!!!!

[Grape Ape]

Check out Ride with GPS. It is an excellent setup and works very well. The designer has posted here on this site and is always open to advice to make it better.

[bohunker]

Check out veloroutes.org
I've used it for over a year, but not with a GPS

[imagination]

I use also veloroutes.org and openstreetmap.org

[Roadrunner]

I use bikehike.co.uk

[cullenking]

Hey, this is Cullen, one of the creators of Ride with GPS -- I saw traffic hitting us from this site and wanted to say hello Thanks for the honourable mention Grape Ape! We are working hard at getting the rest of our stuff rock solid and rounded out. Our new release has been up for a week, and we have been getting great feedback from our regular users on broken functionality, unexpected stuff etc etc. We should be pretty well rounded with the new site here by Monday, when we plan on emailing all our users and posting all over the forums. Just wanted to give ourselves a grace period to fix the expected bugs you get when you rewrite a ton of code!

We'd love for any of you all that are used to some of the other sites to come over and check us out, let us know what you like about the other sites and help us improve ours to better meet your needs. We want your input, because we want to design the best site of this kind.

Hope to see you all around.

[straycat]

You could use google satellite to print out a picture of the course then mark it with red where you want to go

[whyeyebike]

Originally Posted by cullenking

Hey, this is Cullen, one of the creators of Ride with GPS -- I saw traffic hitting us from this site and wanted to say hello Thanks for the honourable mention Grape Ape! We are working hard at getting the rest of our stuff rock solid and rounded out. Our new release has been up for a week, and we have been getting great feedback from our regular users on broken functionality, unexpected stuff etc etc. We should be pretty well rounded with the new site here by Monday, when we plan on emailing all our users and posting all over the forums. Just wanted to give ourselves a grace period to fix the expected bugs you get when you rewrite a ton of code!

We'd love for any of you all that are used to some of the other sites to come over and check us out, let us know what you like about the other sites and help us improve ours to better meet your needs. We want your input, because we want to design the best site of this kind.

Hope to see you all around.

Cullen....I have actually been visiting your site often in the last couple of days. I really haven't used it enough to give you any real good feedback but I will say the one thing I really like a lot is the elevation charts. Those are probably the most important thing for me when planning a ride and yours have been the best and most accurate I have found. When I am out training, I want to know I am going to get my hill climbing in and the elevation charts really help a lot. When I get a chance to really kick the tires of your site, I will give you plenty of feedback....but I have to say you got a good thing going. Keep up the good work and I will spread the word.

Thanks to everyone for their responses....

[SoundDefense]

Anybody else having an issue with mapmyride? Keep getting an security message. Will try bikeroutetoaster instead, this looks interesting but do you have to own a GPS unit?

[whyeyebike]

I haven't used mapmyride in a while because of the advertising that I find annoying. You don't need to have a GPS unit to use bikeroutetoaster, but you get more out of it if you do own a GPS system. Lately I have been using ridewithgps.com and I have to say that it works much better. Its less choppy and I find it elevation information to be much more accurate. I own the Garmin Edge 705 so I use ridewithgps to create GPX files that I then upload to my garmin. They appear as saved rides and I am off on a blind ride with little worry about getting lost. I also always know how roughly how much elevation I am going to be tackling, which is important for me when I am training. Also, ridewithgps has better cue sheets and it is much easier to edit.

Hope this helps a little.....