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Nice post on the TCR fb group with a story of Frank with some cool pics. Looks tough!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/Transcontinental.en/permalink/1576195395764463/

are you also finding yourself being drawn into the idea of one day doing this, or are you watching and thinking 'fuck that'?

I'm no athlete, I know a race like TCR is never going to happen. But it definitely does inspire me to go out on longer day rides, and look into some light touring maybe next year.

How do you do it on a laptop without a wheelie mouse then?

Try double tap but on the second tap keep your finger on the pad, then drag up or down. Worth a shot - it works on some devices/maps (not working on this mac).

boomboom having a little mechanical

You think walking in cleats it's hard? Try walking in cleats with a crank stuck to your shoe #tcrno5

Legs fine. Arse complaining a bit but I'm OK.

Speaking of gears, is that 36t getting much use yet?

Which other LFGSSers apart from hippy, skinny and Wiesia are on this?

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/13764709/

Likewise I've switched to a cheap press-fit pump since going tubeless. Pity, as I prefer the Lezyne otherwise. Maybe they will rework the nozzle to avoid the valve-core thing somehow eventually.

Wow, a real swarm. Well the opposite of a swarm. Would be fascinating to see the intended routes but obviously that's not feasible.

(Polite plug for the chrome extension made for TABR to show a streetview snapshot on the rider page - will probably fail in some countries (Germany?) though)

Quick update as I'm going to leave the site alone for a few weeks while TCR is on, just in case I break it (again) while someone is trying to use it in a pinch.

• Heatmap line over route line, as suggested by @skinny. Much nicer.
  
• All API calls now go direct to the endpoint. Much faster to load routes from RWGPS now.
  
• Some tweaks for mobile. You should be able to find POIs near a route if desperate.
  
  

Idea: could cache routes and map tiles offline on mobile, but would be android-only (iOS doesn't support serviceworker afaik)

Paranoid IT geek so I wasn't sharing my RWGPS account when testing, just using a gpx file.

Fair :) Login http request just gets proxied via the server to avoid cross-domain restriction. No storage, no logging. I'm going to bug them again.. not supporting CORS on a public API is dumb.

GPX file gets yoinked right off the computer using FileReader.

EDIT: Just switched the RWGPS API stuff to JSONP, so now all that stuff goes direct to them from the browser - no server proxy calls.

Would be cool if it would only show heat map along your route, would make it cleaner and easier to see.

The heat map is only available as map tiles so not really a way to filter it.

Also if you can tone down the GPX route colour, so it's faint, then overlay the heat map colour, so you can see the heat map.

Hmm, that's a great idea. I'll put that in the todo list.

I find some of the alternate heatmap colour schemes like color3 combined with a different GPX color like pink work better - toggling the route on and off with g key. But yeah, changing the layer order would help, cheers.

EDIT Done. There's a checkbox to make heatmap go on top, and I made the route line wider.

Can you edit on there?

Like dragging control points around? I'm a bit leary of going down that rabbit hole, sounds like a whole lot of work which RWGPS has already nailed. It would be nice to make small tweaks to a route though, like just switching a segment from one road to another.

For now I work in two tabs - RWGPS editing in the other. When RWGPS route is saved, I just refresh the routecheck tab.

Might be worth getting OSM cycle tracks, if you haven't.

Do you mean OpenCycleMap tiles, or something else? In the Map tab you can choose a different base map. It's easy to add other maps in, see https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ for options.

Also if I upload my GPX, are they secure and private?
Same with my log in data?

The GPX file never leaves your computer - it's read right into the browser and doesn't get stored anywhere. EDIT: Login details now go direct to RWGPS over SSL - the only thing stored are settings and username in your browser only.

tl;dr nothing ever stored on the server, settings and username stored in browser only, everything encrypted in flight.

Update Dec 10 2022! Took the site down for a while after the ridewithgps integration and strava heat maps stopped working, but brought it back without those functions at:

→ routecheck.y3m.net ←

Features:

• GPX upload
  
• OSM gravel and POI-on-route
  
• One-click streetview preview
  
• Basic route builder from waypoints
  
  

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Current bike-related Project. Idea spawned by TCR peeps, non-commercial.

Routecheck is a simple web app to load cycling routes from RideWithGPS, compare with Strava's heatmap, and spot check with Google Streetview for road sketch.

Works on mobile or desktop.

Not intended to be a full-service planner like RWGPS, just a tool for fine-tuning a route.

• Load a GPX file, RWGPS Route, or string one together via OpenRouteService
  
• Pull in points-of-interest from OSM along the route (gas stations, accommodation, pubs, etc) or from the RWGPS route
  
• Re-export the route with POIs attached - Garmin compatible.
  
• 'g' key toggles the route, click/tap brings up streetview preview
  
  

Suggestions welcome - huge thanks to those who have given ideas and feedback already, especially @boomboom, @hippy, @skinny.

If something isn't working right, let me know here or PM and I'll get it. If it looks weird, Shift-Reload will probably fix it.

PS: @platypus has put together an excellent LIST of tools for route planning.

Sweet! Going with the rigid fork? Where are you based? Oh duh welly.

@cgg great read! Thanks for taking the time.

@boomboom take a look now, I've added POIs from OSM with some export options. They're not appearing on my old garmin but then.. I don't know if it even supports them.

UI was getting a bit busy so I gave that a makeover too.

Drop me a PM on here - definitely cluttered up @platypus' fine thread enough already.

Edit: looks like it was caching so if the UI looks broken, force a refresh with Shift-Cmd-R or Shift-Ctrl-F5. Should be fixed after that.

Got it. I'll have a look later - no promises :)

A rectangle around whatever route (rwgps/gpx/ors) is currently shown. Could default to use the browser window if no route, but then you'd just get a gpx file with no route, just points of interest - is that useful?

(I have an ancient Garmin 705 and free rwgps account so I don't use POIs on device, I don't know what's useful here)

Hmm, could be done. Show useful (bars, cafes, gas stations, etc) POIs and add the ones inside the route bounding box to the "Export GPX" data? I think there's an optional extension to the GPX format for POIs.

Yep, started in response to a suggestion on twitter. I'm not intending to make it a super routing tool - that's covered by these other amazing websites - but let me know if some tweak would make it more useful or if it has bugs.

@boomboom it's just the heatmap tiles from Strava, I'm not sure what their criteria are ie when the color step-changes. Maybe 50% of some arbitrary gradient, but don't know on what regional scale. I find the color1 scheme a bit intense, some of the blues are easier to work with. Most of the settings are sticky so you don't have to change them every time.

Edit: found this blog post that explains the methodology; sounds like it's counting gpx points and using neighbouring tiles for scale.

Throwing this out there since it's reached an effort plateau for now: https://routecheck.cc/

• Strava heatmap layer
  
• Click anywhere for a quick streetview preview
  
• Load a saved route from RideWithGPS or GPX upload or
  OpenRouteService routing. Toggle with g key.
  
  

Mainly useful (to me anyway) for comparing a rwgps route with the heatmap and spot checking streetview.

See my tip about using OSM cycle to route onto bicycle paths, then the cycle option, it routes fine.

Is that in RWGPS, ORS or something else? Curious about it doing different routing based on the map which I assumed was only graphic tiles.

Good stuff, bookmarked.

Rwgps was hard enough and they have an actual api. Low effort app but hope it's useful to someone.. I've just gone over some of my planned routes and outed some long gravel stretches I hadn't reckoned on. Just added 'g' hotkey to toggle the gpx route on/off.

Yeah no search. It's just OSM + Strava heat layer + route. Only optional parameter is a rwgps route id. You can zoom way out and pan though. Loading a route will jump to that bounding box.

Just added streetview images on click (where available)