Bikemap: Bicycle Route & GPS App Reviews

I like this a lot and can live with any perceived flaws. Particularly when you are visiting somewhere you will always find good sugestions and can follow the route easily

This APP rocks just moved to Boca from the great trails on silver comet in GA and this is a great way to track your ride and give directions because of moving map feature I have to say great job guys.....

My wife and I have done a lot of bicycle touring over the years in France and other countries in Western Europe. The bikemap.net website and this app have been a great way to record our ride maps and share them both generally with other riders as well as with friends and family. The people who put this site and app together are great. Thanks so much for your efforts. Jeff

Great app, very usefull

Solves the problem of finding routes in a new city, but it crashes every 1-2 minutes and then forgets all of the progress Ive made and starts over. I have a new, fast iPad with a fast broadband connection. But it hangs up the whole ipad, you need to kill the app then it forgets everything you are doing. So aggravating

Love the ability to create routes on the computer and follow using phone. Tracking works well for capturing routes on the road, but really wish it had a time-to-distance feature. How long did it take to get to the peak? Where did I stop and rest? Another great addition would be integration to the camera. Take a pic on the ride and marks the location on the map. Upload the pics to the website when you get home. Great app. Could use a few features.

App stalls, hangs, and crashes on iPhone 5 with iOS 8.0.2. Have yet to open and use app successfully since downloading the app.

This ap is only useful in Europe.

I was excited when I found this app. I moved to a new city that I heard was great for cycling but I needed some routes. This app was exactly what I was looking for. I installed it but cant have it open for more than a minute without having it crash. Cant use it at all. What a disappointment!

This app for cycling fills a unique space in the world of cycling apps, where many seem more about the quantified self or are for crowing about ones latest ride on social media. In contrast, this is a valuable tool. Imagine visiting a city and having a local or at least a prior rider share a visible and viable route for you to follow. And you can store such advance intel right in the app: multiple routes, even. Just returned from Belgium, where I led 3 other riders around on juants between medieval cities, as a first-time visitor myself. As an experienced cyclist and hiker, Im used to good maps and am usually able to suss out a route in unknown territory. I nevertheless found the ability to save other riders routes in the "Route Collection" part of this app to be invaluable. Did not need active internet, but used the internal GPS in my phone. Though you wont be guaranteed that someone has already laid a track to exactly where you want to go, for us it worked out beautifully. (often we followed just the portion of track that pertained to our desired destination.) Even in bicycle-friendly Belgium, I saw that just studying the terrain on a map could be fraught with many go-arounds and false starts for someone not familiar with the country. I learned through trial and error on my own in the beginning that there are key places where one will do better to leave one canal and join another, and sections where industrial activity forced go-arounds, etc. With this app, I was able to pick out previous riders blue-lined routes and carefully preview them on my iPhone 5s. This seems to cache the map on the device in the app. (I did have ability to turn on Data if needed, which I believe is wise in general--sometimes users accidentally fail to scroll around enough to cache desired map tiles beforehand.) We set out, and I simply noted our location arrow as we followed along. There were places along the Gent-Brugge canal where our invisible friend whod tracked this route had taken detours. To us it seemed hed probably just gone off the canal to get something to eat; my friends who couldnt read the Flemish sign thought we should just continue on the canal. Yet the miles of truly helpful route wed already covered gave me the instinct to suggest we follow his detour. And my very sparse Dutch seemed to indicate that the very passable section of canal we could see beyond a simple pipe gate in front of us had some kind of prohibition against bikes (fietsen) in what might be a "fishing/wildlife/locals only" area. (that turned out to be so, and we encountered one more section like this.) We were riding in heavy rain, and it was so nice to avoid stopping often to route-find; just looking for street signs and studying intersections takes time; stopping to discuss route problems makes it hard get a good workout. We didnt even need to puzzle out the many fietsknoppen numbered route signs, that are so numerous they actually add confusion: to follow those signs one feels like youre on a coded treasure hunt, noting numbers and junctions and transfers to other sections... Though their existence is proof of the wonderful surplus of bike networks in this part of the world. But we were able to just keep riding following the saved route! I had my phone in a waterproof case on my stem. I only wish wed had more time to explore the many other riders recorded tracks. As you can see, I got great use out of this app. I intend to do my bit back home now to save some favorite routes around me. Even though you cant build a route in advance by plotting on a map, its probably for the best that you instead track yourself on an actual ride.

After latest update the app crashes on iphone 4s and 7.1.2

Total POS. Doesnt work at all. I think they gave up...

no stupid gimmicks