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Sites that provide geographic reference information, general route or activity planning and support for using GPS devices.
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Great Britain and Ireland Location Information. Lots of reference information and a handy location coordinate converter including Lat/Long, NAC, US Zip and UTM or even GB telephone area codes post codes and motorway junctions, and a gazetteer for place names.
Roadworks
An interactive map of current and announced future roadworks, diversions and delays.
VIA MICHELIN
Michelin’s route planner, good clear maps and clear printable route instructions (no GPS output).
An interesting unusual function is route costing, including tolls.
MyRoute-app
A web-based route planner that works on most platforms and targets most GPS devices.
The only way I know of planning a route on a tablet and then transferring it to your GPS device.
This also has route and track sharing facilities and an integrated phone app that has a number of functions including;
- Accessing your routes directly from the server (no linking and transferring from your PC required).
- Logging your track and linking photos taken on route.
- use the My Route-app Library
- Route editing.
POI Editor
POI Editor lets you view, edit and convert Points of Interest files from GPS devices such as TomTom, Navman, Garmin and many others.
RIDE Routes
Routes from all issues of the main RiDE magazine as downloadable files in GPX format.
POI Editor
“Kurviger is a motorcycle route planner that favours curvy roads and slopes while avoiding cities and highways. Find awesome backcountry roads that are great fun to ride on. Spend your time riding, not planning. Start riding right away with the Kurviger Pro app.”
Imports and exports in a variety of formats could be useful when converting or inspecting shared routes.
The Society for All British and Irish Road Enthusiasts
“The Society exists for the discussion and education of roads in Britain and Ireland. Anyone with an interest in British or Irish roads is welcome to join and participate.”
If you really need to know something about roads or a specific road; these are your experts!
Wet Roads
An online guide to every UK ford, watersplash and tidal road
A county by county guide of splash-down river, tidal roads and low water crossings throughout the UK.