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@Howard
Yeah obvs - if you just want to draw a route there are better tools than Gmaps.
Gmaps knows where quiet roads and dedicated infrastructure is. You can see it when you tell it you are travelling by bike. So if you say 'by bike, how do I get from a -> b' it will most likely give you a good starting point. G800 does not know where this stuff is, and doesn't really know what are quiet roads and what are nasty roads. So the routes it suggests tend to be horrendous, in my experience.