Planning a ride using Googlemaps

[tj189]

This How To may be of assistance to riders in planning their ride or for obtaining a link to insert into a Ride Application
IBA Googlemaps How To

 

[lnelson]

Thank you

 

[Stephen!]

...and if you need to have more than 10 locations in a single route on Google Maps:

 

[Vlad]

Well that is very cool, that’s only been bugging me for a decade well since they confined it to ten stops.

 

[Stephen!]

Well that is very cool, that’s only been bugging me for a decade well since they confined it to ten stops.

One you figure out the "secret" you'll be able to type your route directly into the address bar of the browser and make it that much faster...

 

[Gatey]

Im going to read this a few times guys.
Once it was easy but that ten entry thing stuffed the show.
Thanks for the leg work boys.

 

[Stephen!]

It is a bit fiddly, but one can create a route with more than ten points to be used in Google Maps using a text editor.

To see what format the route needs to take, you can do this...

First you start by typing out your route. Note the use of two-letter abbreviations for states... Addresses can be used as well, but you MUST be certain that the address can be found in Google Maps. For ease of illustration, I will not be using addresses here. Once you get this figured out, using addresses will not be that diffiult.

Seattle, WA to Boise, ID to Billings, MT to Bismarck, ND to Minneapolis, MN to Chicago, IL to Dayton, OH to Kansas City, KS to Dallas, TX to Carlsbad, NM to Phoenix, AZ to Las Vegas, NV to Reno, NV to Redmond, OR to Portland, OR to Seattle, WA

Next, using the "Replace" function in your text editor, replace all instances of "space-to-space" with a slash

Seattle, WA/Boise, ID/Billings, MT/Bismarck, ND/Minneapolis, MN/Chicago, IL/Dayton, OH/Kansas City, KS/Dallas, TX/Carlsbad, NM/Phoenix, AZ/Las Vegas, NV/Reno, NV/Redmond, OR/Portland, OR/Seattle, WA

Then replace all spaces with a +

Seattle,+WA/Boise,+ID/Billings,+MT/Bismarck, ND/Minneapolis,+MN/Chicago,+IL/Dayton,+OH/Kansas+City,+KS/Dallas,+TX/Carlsbad,+NM/Phoenix,+AZ/Las+Vegas,+NV/Reno,+NV/Grants+Pass,+OR/Portland,+OR/Seattle,+WA

When you are done with that, add to the front of everything: "https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/"

https://www.google.nl/maps/dir/Seat...,+NV/Grants+Pass,+OR/Portland,+OR/Seattle,+WA (The forum truncated this link, but it really is all there)

Copy/Paste this into the address bar of your browser and now you have a route.

 

[Daisy]

I used to just open a second map, plan the next ten locations and join the two URLs together - remembering to remove the front bit of the second one.

 

[Gatey]

Go girl. Just did never do that thing so obvious. Im dumb some times.
Why on earth did most of us miss that?

How SA?