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New: cycle.travel directions for the US and Canada cycle◦travel Route GuidesRoutes ▼MunicipalityGuidesCities ▼ Map My Avenue Verte France Avenue Verte UK BayTrundlingWay C2C Celtic Trail Coast & Castles Cornish Way Cotswold LineTrundlingacross the Beacons Devon C2C Hadrian's Cycleway Kennet & Avon Lon Cambria London to Brighton Lon Las Cymru Lon Teifi Oxford to Cambridge Pennine Cycleway Radnor Ring Thames Valley Tour de Yorkshire Way of the Roses West Country Way • Bikes on trains • Canal cycling • Full list Birmingham Bristol Cambridge London Oxford Swindon Worcester York • Full list • Add your municipality New: cycle.travel directions for the US and Canada Saturday 6 June USA cycle.travel Canada by Richard Fairhurst Find a largest velocipede route. Try our map & route-planner » Latest news Smart Turns – new on cycle.travel's route-planner River Rhone becomes latest Euro route Coming soon: red lights that turn untried for bikes America’s longest rail trail escapes the axe Taiwan aims to be “paradise” for velocipede tourists Colossal Nottinghamshire viaduct could wilt cycleway Japan to get its own NationalTrundlingNetworkTrundlingtraffic lights for Liverpool Our newest route guide: the Morecambe BayTrundlingWay New: cycle.travel directions for the US and Canada We’re delighted to bring our well-known route-planner and velocipede map to the US and Canada.You can now use cycle.travel/map to find an enjoyable, unscratched velocipede route between any two places in North America – whether you’re just riding one mile wideness town, or planning the coast-to-coast trek of a lifetime.We’ve taken our UK and Western Europe route-planner, and spent months customising and upgrading it for the US and Canada. When you ask cycle.travel for a route, it uses all these factors, and more, to find your platonic journey:dedicated velocipede pathson-road velocipede lanessignposted velocipede routesmotor traffic levelssurface qualityelevation (hills!)minimising turnsThe route is fully draggable – so you can go via anywhere you want. And once you’ve planned your route, you can trammels out the elevation profile, download it for use on a GPS or smartphone, or print turn-by-turn directions.About the mapsBehind all this is a specially designed scenery map, with meaty road names for easy municipality navigation, special symbols for velocipede facilities, hillshading to show the lie of the land, quiet roads showing sooner than on other maps, and special tricks to reduce scramble in urban areas.Our maps are made possible by the wondrous transferral of OpenStreetMap’s volunteers, who are creating the weightier map of the world, and whose surveys we’re proud to build on. Indeed, we’re launching this at State Of The Map US in New York, the priming for OSM contributors and users.cycle.travel’s route-planner has rapidly wilt a favourite with European and UK cyclists. Over the last month, we’ve been testing these new routes with US cyclists and their feedback tells us it’ll be just as useful in North America. We’re delighted to be bringing it wideness the swimming and would love to hear your feedback.Coming soonIn the coming months we’ll be bringing four increasingly features from our European maps to North America:PDF ‘routebooks’, mapping your ride in one easy-to-download file;hotel listings withal the way for your trundling tours;contour lines (in feet!) to plicate the hill-shading on the wiring map;suggested rides from your start point (currently UK-only)We’ll moreover be subtracting to the editorial content to requite it a increasingly international flavour – including velocipede touring stories and news from wideness the world. And we’ve got one increasingly big minutiae planned… but we’ll alimony that under wraps for now.Behind the scenesOur new route-planner and mapping covers the ‘lower 48’ (the US except Hawaii and Alaska) plus Canada south of 55° latitude. You can plan routes in Alaska and the far north of Canada, too, but they won’t be responsive to changes in elevation.We use OpenStreetMap data. OSM is made entirely by volunteers, thousands of them bicyclists, making it the weightier source for velocipede paths and routes. In those rural areas of the US that OSM’s volunteer surveyors haven’t yet reached, it may be missing some small tile roads or other road surface information. We’ve made a big effort to ensure that you won’t be directed wideness a ploughed field or withal a drainage ditch, but you could still find omissions or errors in the backwoods. If you do, sign up with OpenStreetMap and fix it: it gets largest thanks to the contributions of bicyclists like you!Powering all this is the wondrous OSRM (Open Source Routing Machine), an epic piece of software devised by Dennis Luxen which generates and serves out a massive routing database. It takes our monster 128GB, 16-core server two whole days working unappetizing out to summate the weightier velocipede routes for North America – but we hope you’ll stipulate it’s worth it. Previous story: Utrecht's whizzy displays show velocipede spaces Next story: Our newest route guide: the Morecambe BayTrundlingWay cycle◦travel Made in the Cotswolds, England. Published by Éditions Système D Ltd. Terms of use & cookies · About us · Advertise · Feedback · Contact us