Best (free) app for route planning?

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

What are folks using these days? Ime wanting to plan a route with pin points ideally on a pc friendly app then to use on the phone in the car.  Route needs to be shareable as well

 

Thanks 🙂

[Tom Frankland (T3OMF)]

Hi Marcus

 

I use Google Maps, once you have mapped it out you can just send it to your phone 

[Stuart]

MyRoute is brilliant but you have to be very careful to get waypoints bang on.  Get one on a slip road or the opposite carriageway and it will keep trying to take you back.  Easy to get them right though as you can zoom right in

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

@Tom Frankland (T3OMF) I've looked at google maps it looks like its limited to 9 waypoints 😐

 

@Stuart myroute looks very good I've D/L the app on my phone and used the website on my PC to create a route which by the looks of things can be exported into various formats which is good. The app itself will not navigate the route unless you subscribe - how have you used the routes?

[Stuart]

@Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator yes I made a 550 mile circuit of Wales for my Garmin with it in 2021 and it worked superbly apart from my one errant waypoint. I've used it to create a few more local routes as well.

 

And I heard about it from the guy who uses it for the local MX5 club drives.  I've borrowed a few of those and they've worked great. 

 

Edited to add that I haven't used the routes on my phone just on my Garmin Nuvi. I think.... 

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

7 minutes ago, Stuart said:

@Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator yes I made a 550 mile circuit of Wales for my Garmin with it in 2021 and it worked superbly apart from my one errant waypoint. I've used it to create a few more local routes as well.

 

And I heard about it from the guy who uses it for the local MX5 club drives.  I've borrowed a few of those and they've worked great. 

Thanks @Stuart 👍 Ill have a go with my tom tom

[Stuart]

1 minute ago, Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator said:

Thanks @Stuart 👍 Ill have a go with my tom tom

That def works Marcus. The MX5 guy creates routes for both TomTom and Garmin