[Closed] Best route sharing site.

I'm a big fan of www.mtbtrails.info . Written by a mountain biker in the north of Scotland, but has trails all over the country and an intuitive mapping software.

When it comes to mapping routes, I use BikeHike. Brilliant site which you can import/export GPX files onto.

http://www.bikehike.co.uk/mapview.php

Hope that helps. 😀

www.bikely.com

Garmin Basecamp is not a route sharing site, it is mapping software for your PC. You can download from the GPS into Basecamp, then export as a GPX file, then upload to a route sharing site if you want. I think Basecamp is pretty good for planning routes, you can get free OpenStreetMap mapping for it.

Or you could use Garmin Connect, which is a route sharing site. I think its pretty good, it can give loads of statistics, and graphs for speed, elevation, heart rate etc. Though not many options for mapping.

For route sharing, I like GPSies. It can display a variety of different types of maps as the background, including OpenStreetMap / OpenCyclecMap. http://www.gpsies.com/

I agree with ant0463, Bikehike is the winner for me.

Also now searching through Strava for popular descents in new areas that I've not visited before.
Which leads me onto...if everyone is using Strava to log their rides nowadays certain previously "secret/cheeky" trails must surely be a thing of the past...Surrey hills is a fine example of this!

@burgatedicky

if everyone is using Strava to log their rides nowadays certain previously "secret/cheeky" trails must surely be a thing of the past...Surrey hills is a fine example of this!

strava is a double edged sword, it's helped me find some nice little tracks around huddersfield, however it's nice not having to know how dog slow i am down someof my favourites

Agree about surrey hills, went for a ride there the other week and everything around there is a bloomin segment, i'm surprised there isn't one for crossing the road to buy a can of coke at the shop in peaslake

Is bikehike a site for sharing and viewing routes? Can't see how you can do this with it unless there's something obvious I'm missing.

I've used gpsies a fair bit - like strava though it's a total data dump.
The mtbtrails site could be the daddy if it continues to grow [maybe is the daddy already if you live in Scotland]. V nice site.

I've tried a few and mtbtrails has by far the best interfact. Plus I live in Scotland 🙂 But at the end of the day it is the routes that matter and at the moment those routes are spread out over a huge number of sites. For example I found a nice local route on EveryTrail a little while back.

It's a pity that there isn't one site that can harvest, categorize and archive all the gpx files that are out there. Mind you, I bet Google are working on it.

Cheers,

Andy

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Cheers for the help. Think I've sorted it.

Stu.

http://www.mtbtrails.info/

Big fan also. No advertising. Run by Mountain bikers for mountain bikers, so no roadie guff.A bit 'Northern' at the moment, but if everybody used the 'take one give one' principle the whole of the UK will soon be covered.
Hth
Marko

Is bikehike a site for sharing and viewing routes? Can't see how you can do this with it unless there's something obvious I'm missing.