Round trip
- Open the Route Maker and choose Round trip.
- Set your start: search a place, click the map or use your location.
- Choose how long: km for a distance (10 to 300 km), or h for riding time (30 minutes to 6 hours, counted at about 55 km/h without stops). Then pick the curviness: Low, Medium or High.
- Optional: avoid highways, unpaved roads, tolls or ferries.
- Click Generate.
The loop comes out roughly as long as you asked: a bit shorter or longer, depending on the roads around you.
To a place
Choose To a place, set a start and an end, and we look for the twisty way from A to B. Swap start and end turns it round.
Long routes
A destination far away (up to about 1,500 km in a straight line) is planned in stages. The route shows as Provisional until every stage is done. That can take a few minutes. You can leave the page: the calculation carries on when you come back to the Route Maker. We only plan over land.
A pin in a car-free centre moves to the nearest road. A pin at sea gets a message straight away.
“This route takes too long to make”
Some routes take too long to work out, for example a very long loop with a lot of curves. You then get this message instead of a route. Try a shorter loop or fewer curves, or for a route to a place, points closer together. While a route is being made you can always press Cancel; your start, end and options stay as they are.
Not happy with it?
A generated route is a normal route: drag points, add stops, or generate again. Always check a route before you ride it.
Generating on the website is free with an account. In the iPhone app, generating a route (a round trip or to a place) is part of Motarva Pro, and so is riding a generated route turn by turn unless it is public. Drawing a route yourself in the app is free. See Motarva Pro.