Trailimap
Dev tools
route planner
SHOW HN2024
279points
151comments
#235of 3,515 in 2024
Top 7%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
16 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 16 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score +0.02.
Design: 3 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 6 againstIdea: 3 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Routes follow good bike trails and match real trips well.
From 3 comments
Holy shit it's awesome! I've been bikepaking for two years now and I wish I had this tool I've used komoot in the past but I was never satisfied with the paths it suggested and…
Sacco215 on HNWorks very well, it exactly replicated my everyday route to work.
lqet on HNThis does a much better job than anything I've seen before. Nice work. It still doesn't generate routes I'd use as they're too circuitous due to the poor cycle infrastructure in…
benjiweber on HN
Useful alternative to existing planners like Komoot.
From 2 comments
Holy shit it's awesome! I've been bikepaking for two years now and I wish I had this tool I've used komoot in the past but I was never satisfied with the paths it suggested and…
Sacco215 on HNWoah, impressive. I plotted a course from the northern tip of Amsterdam to Kinderdijk and it worked the first time. Neat! It would be great™ if it could drag new mandatory points…
burnt-resistor on HN
Objections
Mobile layout is broken or unusable.
From 3 comments
Seems completely broken on mobile.
ghostly_s on HNThe menu takes up the entire screen on my phone and it is not clear how to close it.
NowhereMan on HNConstructive feedback: (i am on mobile). The map pulls up somewhere in Europe, even though I am in the bay area. I can’t really see for sure because the side bar covers the whole…
joshribakoff on HN
Adding multiple route points fails with a network error.
From 2 comments
Looks interesting! Unfortunately doesn't seem to let me add more than one point on my route. In the console I see `Error fetching route from Graphhopper Error: Network response…
jameal on HN"Add new point" button doesn't do anything. Falls over at the very first hurdle. 3 error in the console, ``` POST https://routes.trailimap.com/route/ 400 (Bad Request) Error…
mvdtnz on HN
Official trails are sometimes poor surfaces or unpleasant to ride.
From 2 comments
A great concept, but there's one big problem: many official bike trails are crap. Sometimes it's actually better to take the road, or you end up on a windy route that's near…
greener_grass on HNHmm, I've more often found myself wanting the opposite - a way to plan bike travel that follows reasonable roads rather than the Silly Sustrans Routes. Does your approach…
lmm on HN
Requests
Add mobile support or a native mobile app.
From 2 comments
I love where you're going with this, nearly all of my little side projects have something to do with maps and bikes. No comment on how the routes are as I'm not really familiar…
chainwax on HNThanks for the feedback! I actually want to have it on mobile as well but will most likely choose React Native instead of trying to make the web app work on mobile (or maybe only…
allg12 on HN
Show road surface type on the route map.
From 2 comments
This is very cool and very useful as a commuting cyclist. The routes that OSM and Google give me don't always have a high "reasonability" score in that they may be the most…
gorgonical on HNYou can change the profile to 'road cycling' and it will avoid paths with bad surfaces. Not sure about the UK but I've cycled quite a lot around here in Europe (12 countries so…
allg12 on HN
Open source the project.
From 2 comments
Any plan to make it open source?
kilokilosupa on HNI love where you're going with this, nearly all of my little side projects have something to do with maps and bikes. No comment on how the routes are as I'm not really familiar…
chainwax on HN
Expand to North America and other regions.
From 2 comments
This is phenomenal! As an avid bike packer, I've always wanted this. Eagerly awaiting the expansion to North America. Please don't forget about Canada when building ;)
SonicScrub on HNWould love to see this for the SF Bay Area - lots of great cycling around here and I'm unsatisfied with using Strava to create routes! One of the most frustrating things for me…
wilson090 on HN
Questions
Will the project be open source?
From 1 comment
Any plan to make it open source?
kilokilosupa on HN
Is there an API available?
From 1 comment
This looks really great! Do you offer an api as well? I'm part of the team behind https://cyclema.ps and we'd love to see if we could incorporate this as a backend.
thenewrohirrim on HN
Alternatives named
cycle.travel
From 2 comments
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…
carlosjobim on HNNice! I added a similar feature to cycle.travel (my site) a few months back. 5% of the work was writing the code to route only on waymarked routes, 95% was writing code to "heal"…
Doctor_Fegg on HN
BRouter
From 2 comments
Are you aware of "brouter"? Depending on the routing rules (upper left selector) you can choose multiple trail preferences. https://brouter.de/essbee/
nodehopper42 on HNIf only Berlin cobblestone was mapped as "cobblestone" not "sett" on open streetmaps -_- Had to customize https://brouter.de/brouter-web to make something workable. But i's…
anotheryou on HN
Komoot
From 2 comments
Exciting! For me would be a nice complement or competition to, say, Komoot. Constructive feedback: at least on safari, it was not as smooth to navigate as other map apps, and…
dkga on HNNicely done! I use Komoot and RidewithGPS, but this is a nice tool if you want to plan a route that relies on bike trails as much as possible. Would be cool to also show the…
insane_dreamer on HN
RideWithGPS
From 1 comment
Nice work! I run ridewithgps.com and am responsible for all our mapping and routing. If you ever want to pick my brain about anything related to bike software, and of course…
cullenking on HN