Routecheck.cc

Update Dec 10 2022! Took the site down for a while after the ridewithgps integration and strava heat maps stopped working, but brought it back without those functions at:

→ routecheck.y3m.net ←

Features:

• GPX upload
  
• OSM gravel and POI-on-route
  
• One-click streetview preview
  
• Basic route builder from waypoints
  
  

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Current bike-related Project. Idea spawned by TCR peeps, non-commercial.

Routecheck is a simple web app to load cycling routes from RideWithGPS, compare with Strava's heatmap, and spot check with Google Streetview for road sketch.

Works on mobile or desktop.

Not intended to be a full-service planner like RWGPS, just a tool for fine-tuning a route.

• Load a GPX file, RWGPS Route, or string one together via OpenRouteService
  
• Pull in points-of-interest from OSM along the route (gas stations, accommodation, pubs, etc) or from the RWGPS route
  
• Re-export the route with POIs attached - Garmin compatible.
  
• 'g' key toggles the route, click/tap brings up streetview preview
  
  

Suggestions welcome - huge thanks to those who have given ideas and feedback already, especially @boomboom, @hippy, @skinny.

If something isn't working right, let me know here or PM and I'll get it. If it looks weird, Shift-Reload will probably fix it.

PS: @platypus has put together an excellent LIST of tools for route planning.

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Looks clever. Will give it a whirl.

Yeah looks good.

Can you edit on there?
Might be worth getting OSM cycle tracks, if you haven't.

Also if I upload my GPX, are they secure and private?

Same with my log in data?

Would be cool if it would only show heat map along your route, would make it cleaner and easier to see.

Also if you can tone down the GPX route colour, so it's faint, then overlay the heat map colour, so you can see the heat map.

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The streetview is really good, quick snapshot, makes checking fast.

what are folk using to break down their gpx files?

rwgps

pubs

Dibs

RWGPS ftw

Paranoid IT geek so I wasn't sharing my RWGPS account when testing, just using a gpx file.

I'm still paranoid about uploading the gpx file.

It might all be a ruse by you to get my to upload my gpx files, which goes direct to your computer.

I'M ON TO YOU!

Can't move for all this nervous TCR energy

My route is already on my Garmin so there's no wucking fay I'm changing it.

Try masturbating. It's working for me right now.

Can you edit on there?

Like dragging control points around? I'm a bit leary of going down that rabbit hole, sounds like a whole lot of work which RWGPS has already nailed. It would be nice to make small tweaks to a route though, like just switching a segment from one road to another.

For now I work in two tabs - RWGPS editing in the other. When RWGPS route is saved, I just refresh the routecheck tab.

Might be worth getting OSM cycle tracks, if you haven't.

Do you mean OpenCycleMap tiles, or something else? In the Map tab you can choose a different base map. It's easy to add other maps in, see https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ for options.

Also if I upload my GPX, are they secure and private?
Same with my log in data?

The GPX file never leaves your computer - it's read right into the browser and doesn't get stored anywhere. EDIT: Login details now go direct to RWGPS over SSL - the only thing stored are settings and username in your browser only.

tl;dr nothing ever stored on the server, settings and username stored in browser only, everything encrypted in flight.

Would be cool if it would only show heat map along your route, would make it cleaner and easier to see.

The heat map is only available as map tiles so not really a way to filter it.

Also if you can tone down the GPX route colour, so it's faint, then overlay the heat map colour, so you can see the heat map.

Hmm, that's a great idea. I'll put that in the todo list.

I find some of the alternate heatmap colour schemes like color3 combined with a different GPX color like pink work better - toggling the route on and off with g key. But yeah, changing the layer order would help, cheers.

EDIT Done. There's a checkbox to make heatmap go on top, and I made the route line wider.

Paranoid IT geek so I wasn't sharing my RWGPS account when testing, just using a gpx file.

Fair :) Login http request just gets proxied via the server to avoid cross-domain restriction. No storage, no logging. I'm going to bug them again.. not supporting CORS on a public API is dumb.

GPX file gets yoinked right off the computer using FileReader.

EDIT: Just switched the RWGPS API stuff to JSONP, so now all that stuff goes direct to them from the browser - no server proxy calls.

Quick update as I'm going to leave the site alone for a few weeks while TCR is on, just in case I break it (again) while someone is trying to use it in a pinch.

• Heatmap line over route line, as suggested by @skinny. Much nicer.
  
• All API calls now go direct to the endpoint. Much faster to load routes from RWGPS now.
  
• Some tweaks for mobile. You should be able to find POIs near a route if desperate.
  
  

Idea: could cache routes and map tiles offline on mobile, but would be android-only (iOS doesn't support serviceworker afaik)

Couple of features added:

• Option to show unpaved roads. Should work fine in mobile if you're in a bind, but requires data to hit OSM API.
  
• Option to show current location on the map, if browser supported (◎ icon on first tab)
  

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Right what am I doing wrong. Where are all the gelaterias not showing I know are there? Well nothing food is showing.

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Hmm, at least one should be showing for sure:
http://openpoimap.org/?map=restaurants&zoom=14&lat=50.75426&lon=7.08854&layers=B00FFFTFFFFF

The data is coming from OpenStreetMap's database so anything on that site should appear. Do you get any if you make the range 1 mile instead of 1/4 mile?

Quick test route works ok here on Android Chrome and iPhone Safari. Annoying :/
Perhaps try clearing your Safari cache in case it's got some old code hanging about and messing things up. I'll double check that bit to make sure.

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D'oh! Strava disabled the old v1 heatmap tiles, v2 only now. I've removed the v1 options and added the blue/red v2 tiles as an option. Pity - I liked the blue gradient in v1 :/

If you don't see any heatmap, pick one of the v2 schemes under the Map tab.