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In cycle.travel you can left click one any road and you have the option to either "find photos" or "streetview", one gives you geotagged photos from either that location or nearby, the other calls up Google streetview (even on mobile).
If you have a data connection, you can even generate a map on the fly and save it to your gps (download to an SD card), it can be a real lifesaver in that sense.
Adding via points allows you to route along roads it's trying to avoid if you are in familiar territory, or feel comfortable trying based on the streetview.
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that cycle.travel thing looks good, I have just compared it to a recent route that I took and it seems to able to really highlight cycle-only paths (blue dots?), but I can't find an actual legend explaining it??
komoot is also nice, but doesn't seem to differentiate between road types and cycleability, but the annotations of other users seem to be really valuable.
I think when combining both, this is really cool.
In terms of legend, I would really appreciate if there is way to see if a small road is paved, cobblestoned, hard packed gravel, graded dirt, or loose sand (komoot as well as cycle.travel). I have a map like that for driving cars in the southwest US, must be possible to have that for bikes, too.
EDIT: found the legend in cycle.travel, they call it "key" and it actually has all of the above - super cool. komoot needs to upgrade here - the offer other maps in the layer options, but there is no legend/key for those, only for their komoot map??
I wish there was a way to have all the user annotations from komoot in the cycle.travel map!! And it would be cool to be able to overlay a satellite view, too.