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Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails

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Post by allg12 »

Hey guys, I built a route planner that is mostly focused on bike touring and using existing bike infrastructure.

For each request you're shown what bike tracks/trails your route uses and can further explore them by showing them on map or going to the official trail route.

The main idea for the app is to have a friendly and easy to use planner that would make heavy use of official bike trails data (mainly from OpenStreetMap) and make it easy to plan a longer trip using the best possible bike routes out there.

Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North America very soon and then rest of the world.

Technical overview: Route finding - Graphhopper sitting in a docker container on a Hetzner server somewhere in Germany. It has 38 GB of graph data(Europe) loaded into RAM for a fast graph traversal.

Web App - Next.js 14 with Typescript, backend on the newest version of .NET

Map tiles - right now I'm using MapTiler their free tier but planning to switch to my own home server soon and host the maps on it.

Show HN: Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails
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Post by doublehelix1020 »

NowhereMan wrote: post #2

The menu takes up the entire screen on my phone and it is not clear how to close it.

Additionally, even when holding my phone sideways so that I can see the map, it doesn’t appear that hitting “add new point” does anything

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Post by carlosjobim »

Have you seen www.cycle.travel? It's an excellent bike route planner made by an indie developer. Your GUI is much more pleasant, and the official bike trails idea is good. What you're missing is writing start and destination points instead of clicking on the map. Maybe you could get together and make a killer product.

Edit: I see now that the cycle.travel developer is here in the thread :)

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Post by ollybee »

What I really want form a bike route planner is a map style that shows smaller roads as you zoom out. When planning a cycling I'm interested in tiny back back roads but they are hidden as soon as I zoom out on any map enough to be useful for route planning.
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