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Surface Types

Want to know if there’s going to be a gnarly gravel section in the middle of your road ride? Or perhaps not be taken off guard by all the tarmac on what you thought was a backcountry bikepacking adventure? Good…

Cue Review Tool

The Cue Review Tool is the fastest and easiest way to make sure your cuesheet is just how you want it. It will walk you through each of your cues so you can ensure they’re accurate and make any changes…

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The Split Route Tool

The Split Route tool allows you to take a longer route and split it into as many smaller routes as you want without affecting the original route. These new routes will also include the POIs of the original route within…

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Working with Adventure Cycling Association Digital Data

Get the most out of routes purchased from the Adventure Cycling Association with Ride with GPS. Using the advanced editing tools available with a Premium subscription, you can combine an ACA route file with the corresponding ACA Services(Points of Interest)…

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Keyboard Shortcuts

When planning or editing a route, you can help streamline your workflow by using the keyboard shortcuts listed below. At this time, the shortcuts only work when planning and editing routes, not when viewing a route or ride.

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Advanced Route Planning and Editing

As a Premium subscriber, you gain access to more advanced tools to help you plan and edit multi-staged routes, combine or split routes, delete entire sections of routes, and easily turn rides into routes. Quick Jump: Delete Section Remove Control…

The Elevation Profile for Routes

The Elevation Profile offers so much more than just analyzing the difficulty of hills. Interacting with the profile allows you to make selections, place cues, create segments, trim the route, change the color of a route, and more. Outline: Mouse-over…

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Switching Map Styles

When you’re planning a route or viewing a route/ride, you can switch map styles to work in your preferred style. Not all maps have the same routing functionality, so switching maps allows you to gain additional information, or work around…

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Combining and Splitting Routes

Premium subscribers can combine multiple routes or split a long route into many using our simple split and combine tools. For advanced route splitting where you can retain all cue and POI data, please use the Advanced Route Splitting Tool.…

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Flatten Elevation

Learn how to use our Flatten Elevation tool to correct elevation inaccuracies caused by bridges, tunnels, and tall buildings. All Ride with GPS users can utilize this tool to correct rides they’ve uploaded and routes they’ve planned. This tool will…

Edit Color On a Section of Route

Learn how to edit the color of any section of a route from the route planner. This is especially useful for highlighting busy roads, tough climbs, segments you want to call out, or anything significant about the route. This feature…

Create & Customize a Cue Sheet

Premium and Basic members get access to our PDF maps and cue sheets for any route that has cues. These are great for navigation if you don’t have a GPS unit or smartphone, or to pass out to riders participating…

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Working with Cues

Premium subscribers can input custom cues while planning or editing routes on the website’s route planner to alert riders of Points of Interest (POIs) and other features of the route like “start long climb”, “beware of train tracks”, or additional…

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Advanced Route Planning

Here are some tips for doing your best route mapping: Click just a bit beyond a turn you want to take in the direction you want to take it, rather than in an intersection. If you click inside an intersection, Google’s…

Deleting a Route

For your convenience, there are several ways to delete routes, but they all do the same thing. Routes that are deleted are permanently deleted and can NOT be restored. Here are the ways you can delete a route: Find the…

Point of Interest (POI)

We all have favorite coffee shops, breweries and the like on our routes, but did you know you can flag them on your map? Premium subscribers can add Points of Interest (POI) to routes to provide additional details on the…

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Garmin Edge 800

Quick Summary: Make the most of every ride with Edge 800. Providing navigation and performance monitoring, Edge 800 is ideal for touring, commuting, competitive cycling and mountain biking. It has a built-in basemap and tracks your distance, speed, location and…

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Create Your Own Routes

Create a Route You are here. You want to ride your bike to there. Want to know what the best way to get there is? Use our Route Planner, and we’ll show you how to get there safely and with…