The map and the stats bar

Last verified October 25, 2026

The map fills the right-hand side of the planner. Map content switches the base map and turns on what you want to see (water points, repairers, places to stay and more), the controls on the right zoom and locate, and the stats bar underneath shows distance, ride time, climbing, descent, difficulty, average speed and the elevation profile.

On the map itself

• The route, with numbered markers where each day ends once you've split it into stages.
• Climb badges showing the height gained and average gradient of each climb.
• Route alternatives across the top when there's more than one sensible way, each with its distance and climbing.
• Climbs and Cycle network toggles at the bottom left, for climb shading and signed cycle routes.
• A 'Calculating route…' pill at the bottom of the map while a route is being worked out, whether you edited it or Mec did.

Most routes take a few seconds; long and off-road routes can take 10 to 20. After about 8 seconds the pill says it's still working (for Gravel and MTB, that those routes can take up to 20 seconds), and after about 22 seconds that it's taking longer than usual. If a route can't be calculated, the pill turns into a short notice saying why: the routing server is busy, no bike route connects the points (one may be off the road network or across water, so move it), or the route has too many points or one it can't use, such as a start and end in the same place with nothing in between. Where trying again can help it offers Try again, and a failed edit leaves your previous route in place.

Map content

The Preferences menu next to it toggles the cycling-infrastructure styling of the map. Place data comes from OpenStreetMap, with official tourism listings added in France, Belgium (except Brussels), the Republic of Ireland, Portugal and South Tyrol in Italy.

The stats bar

• Totals for the route: distance, estimated ride time, climbing, descent, a difficulty rating and average speed.
• The elevation profile, banded by day once the route is split, so you can see which day holds which climb.
• Directions: the turn-by-turn list for the route.
• Road surface: what the route is made of (see below).
• Road Type: the kind of way the route uses (cycleway, track, residential street and so on). Its caption says so: road classification, not surface.
• Daily brief is not available yet.

Climb and descent are worked out the same way, with rises and dips under 3 m treated as noise in the elevation data and left out. Once the route is split into days, the totals are the sum of the days. The same figures appear on the route-option cards and in Mec's answers, so they can differ from another app or from an older version of the same route.

Time is an estimate of riding time for a loaded bike, not the routing engine's figure. It comes from your bike type, the e-bike setting and the trip's pace (in Trip preferences), applied to the riding distance (ferry crossings left out), with extra time for the climbing; breaks aren't included. Speed is the average that time works out to. The route-option cards, the day cards in the Stages and Trip points tabs and Mec all use this same estimate, and the day cards add up to the Time shown here.

Road surface

• A bar and three shares: Unpaved, Paved and Unknown surface.
• By material: each surface on the route (asphalt, gravel, dirt, paving stones and so on) with its share.
• Asphalt, concrete and paving stones count as paved; gravel, dirt, grass, cobblestones and the like count as unpaved.
• Unknown surface is the part of the route with no surface recorded in the map data. It is its own share, never counted as unpaved or off-road.
• When the route carries no surface data at all (an imported GPX track, for example), the panel says 'Surface unknown' rather than guessing from the road type.