Importing Data🔗

Bikerouter can import various data formats and display them on the map.

Certain files, such as GPS tracks (GPX), can even be used as a basis for new route calculations.

Accessing this feature is done via the “Load” menu entry:

Load Track🔗

Keyboard shortcut: o

This allows an existing GPS track to be displayed on the map and used as a basis for further planning. The track is displayed in blue, and no further functionality is available:

Loaded Track Shown on the Map

Through the “Layers” menu (1), the track can be shown or hidden (2), and the opacity can be adjusted (3):

Settings for the Displayed Track

Multiple tracks can also be loaded consecutively, and they can be turned on or off independently.

Load Track as Route🔗

Keyboard shortcut: Shift o

With this function, an existing track can be used as a basis for a new route. After selecting the file, Bikerouter displays the settings window:

Import Dialog for the “Load Track as Route” Function

First, the track file needs to be selected (1). By clicking the “Adjustment” button (2), a slider can be shown, allowing you to set the number of waypoints (the waypoints are displayed on the map in the background (3)).

The more waypoints you set, the closer the calculated route will align with the original track path. Note: Depending on the routing profile and the presence of ways and their surface quality as well as their access permissions in the OpenStreetMap database, the route may differ from the original.

After clicking “Load Track as Route” (4), the route is created and calculated:

Automatically Created Route with Waypoints

Load No-go Areas🔗

@TODO