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MapDraw: Take the Scenic Route

Currently, I'm using it to follow the London Loop, with the route loaded as a GPX track on the map. particularly when it takes me along a busy road when I can see what looks like a much more pleasant alternative just a few metres away.

MapDraw: Take the Scenic Route

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Currently, I'm using it to follow the London Loop, with the route loaded as a GPX track on the map.

You can view elevation profiles for your tracks, simplify overly complicated paths and areas, and search for points of interest using OpenStreetMap data.

particularly when it takes me along a busy road when I can see what looks like a much more pleasant alternative just a few metres away.

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Currently, I'm using it to follow the London Loop, with the route loaded as a GPX track on the map. particularly when it takes me along a busy road when I can see what looks like a much more pleasant alternative just a few metres away. What I need is a simple tool that will allow me to draw my own alternative routes for the sections I don't like and save them as GPX files, which I can then add to Organic Maps.

How it works

  • You can view elevation profiles for your tracks, simplify overly complicated paths and areas, and search for points of interest using OpenStreetMap data.
  • So, if I decide that the official London Loop route has made a terrible mistake by sending me down a noisy main road, I can load the GPX file into MapDraw, redraw that section of the route and export my...
  • Of course, MapDraw can do a lot more than simply help me correct the London Loop.
  • You can use MapDraw to generate routes for driving, cycling or walking, and then save those generated routes as editable paths.

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I often get annoyed with the London Loop route.

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