Ghost Ryder

As of now yes, I'm picking up my Garmin Edge later today.

RacerOne

A few years ago when I was still on dial up, MMR was completely useless with the ads taking forever to load, I switched to RWGPS then and never went back.

datlas 

ridewithgps sounds fine but from what I can tell, they do NOT have an iPhone app as of yet.

I agree MMR sucks.

I don't have an official GPS or bike computer so I am hoping ridewithgps will come out with an app soon.

jashgtp

Strava, seems the best to me. Never had and issues logging or uploading. The only problem I have with Strava, isn't the best to plan out a ride.

Matt Gaunt

+1

Creatre

Used MapMyRide when I first started because it was the best advertised. Now, I use Strava daily, and ridewithgps for route planning. Much better products and companies.

nhluhr

Yep, I have hated their site since I started occasionally using it 3+ years ago. It is so clunky and slow and the map API errors get really annoying.

Lazy Dog

I've noticed how MapMyRide has been clunky and error-prone lately. I finished a nice long ride on Saturday morning and was in the process of uploading my information when the app got hung up and froze. It lost my cadence and split information, but logged the total mileage and time.

I've decided to go a different route....

Last night I downloaded Wahoo Fitness on my iPhone. This app syncs up automatically with my heart rate, speed and cadence sensors and has a nice looking interface for my ride. You also have the option at the end of the ride to automatically update MapMyRide and Strava with all your ride information. I'm going to try this out tonight on my ride and see how accurate and effective it is.

illdthedj

unfortunately im stuck with mapmyride, reason being:

my employer provides health insurance, and is partnered with this company "Power of Vitality" or something.
So thru the Power of Vitality website, we get "points" for verified workouts and other health things. Points earn you "bucks" that you can spend on stuff like gift certificates, BUT more importantly, the points put you into brackets, from blue, to bronze, to silver, gold, and platinum.

So whats the point...of points? well the higher the bracket, the less stuff costs in the "store"...big deal. but also they partner with local gyms. the super nice gym is regularly 100 bucks a month, but for us employees it is 50 a month. BUT THEN, if you go to the gym on average of once a week, you get 25 bucks reimbursed if you are silver, 35 if gold, more if platinum.... AND (the biggest kicker) Insurance monthly payment is CHEAPER if you are platinum. So its incentive based health. make employees healthier, less costs on expensive medical expenses.

SOOOO also, Vitality is partnered with Mapmyride, so I get "points" for every ride i go on. So i kind of need to use Mapmyride on rides, that is if i want to earn points. Nothing else is partnered with Vitality, so if i wanted to use Strava or whatever i would have to have it running at the same time as mapmyride and probably burn my battery down quicker.

I could just NOT use mapmyride but now ive become a points -w#%#hore and am working to get to platinum status. all the fit people at work here are all about teh points haha

LarryMelman

See, this is the problem. MMR tries to do way too many things. And they do them all poorly. I don't want upload from anything, don't want nutritional tracking, don't want contests and awards and a ton of irrelevant crap. I just want to draw maps.

Today, I still can't edit the route map I've been trying to edit for over a week. But I can edit other maps. Quite a few of my maps have a button "snap route to roads" which makes no sense, they were all snapped to roads when I drew them. If I click the button, I get extra miles on the map because it adds little loops and u-turns and zigzags that weren't there originally. I can try to fix them, but today the Undo button isn't working. It's always something.

ChrisM2097

I used to use MapMyRide until the upgrades started a couple months ago. I didn't like the new layout, and switched to RideWithGPS for my mapping needs, and haven't looked back. I store all my actual rides in Strava and Garmin Connect, though. (Edge 500)

Juan Foote

I used MMR for quite a while, and honestly for the console on Android phones, I prefer it. It seems to be the only one to give you real time important info, like current speed. Both it's earlier version, and Strava even now, didn't give that info for the Android app. I have never been really crazy about the interface of the online experience for MMR, aside from the "map a ride" format, but since figuring out how to create and import my routes through Google Maps (which most of the major GPS programs use anyway) I prefer to map out rides there and import them if I am looking for route guidance, in Strava. I use Strava more now simply due to the sheer number of users among the people I ride with, and the "segment" portion of it's program even within the free part of the app. I have given up on wanting to know current speed since a little after summer started and just ride what I feel, even took my computer off.

I am interested in trying this Rw/GPS with all the glowing feedback now...

Mithrandir

Interesting. I've been off the bike for 2 weeks after being hit by a car, and I've primarily been using MapMyRide to upload my garmin results and post them on facebook. I never found their elevation information to be anywhere near accurate, but at the same time I liked their ability to classify climbs, so I'd at least know if a route was remotely possible for me prior to taking it on (Cat 1+2's are out of my league!).

That's one thing I wish RideWithGPS had. I always map my rides with RWG now, and I've been using that site since last year, but I hadn't realised they actually added the ability to upload your activities.


There's too many sites, each with their pros and cons.


Garmin Connect - Excellent reporting engine. Specially tailored for Garmin devices.
Strava - Love the segment functions.
MapMyRide - Climb categorization is neat, facebook sharing is great as it creates a nice summary paragraph.
RideWithGPS - Most accurate elevation information.
Endomondo - Challenges are neat, and has some neat metrics.


I just wish I could use 1 site for all this stuff. As it is I've stopped using Endomondo and I'm trying to decide on another to drop as well.

Matt Gaunt

Helpful post

P.S. sorry to hear about your off. I hope you recover soon.

garciawork

I tried a couple of the other sites but Strava ended up being where I settled in, and google.maps is how I draw up new routes. I find out the elevation and whatnot when I upload the actual ride.

LarryMelman

Is it true that Strava can only create routes by uploading from a mobile device? That's exactly what I don't want. Don't want to publish my activities to others and turn everything into a contest. ALL I need is to draw maps and measure distances.

Actually what I'd like, is a site where I can draw a map for a club ride, and then print a map that we can hand out at the ride which shows just the major streets without all the clutter of a Google map. I don't know of any site that supports this.

For basic map entry, ridewithgps seems like a good replacement for mapmyride.

pallen

correct. Strava is definitely not for you and ridewgps is closer to what you are looking for.

VA_Esquire

strava. I know it isn't the same thing, but I don't care. Strava.

Bostic

I use bikeroutetoaster.com for that.

Mapmyride is terrible, clunky interface, slow to load.

SuperGregNo1

I've been using RunKeeper on my iPhone. I've been meaning to try some of the other apps available too though, since there seem to be several other popular ones now.

MitchL

subscribed

heresy

I have had a lot of problems with MMR recently. Like Larry, loops and U-turns added inexplicably. I sent an email to customer service as a heads up. The response was effectively, "Sorry, it happens." Best part is my premium membership gives me the honor of paying for a crummy service.

ChrisM2097

rm -rf

It's pretty difficult to show the full route on one page, and still have most of the roads with readable names. But I used to see pretty good maps printed from the old pay PC mapping software, like Delorme, for instance.

ridewithgps maps:

Their "Export --> Print Map" only makes an overview map. It would be good to post on a blog or a ride's web page, but it's not usable as a handout for navigation.

---homemade maps---
I've sometimes zoomed in on the regular displayed route and made screen copies, then stitched 2 or 3 together to show the whole route. Saved as a jpg, then Open Office Write can import the jpg and easily make a PDF of the page. For a 30 to 50 mile loop, the street names are pretty small, but are just barely readable when printed on a laser printer.

Here's an example of a pdf (uploaded to google docs). I trimmed then merged three screen shots down the page to get the street names to show. This was a 1270x1630 pixel jpg that was scaled down to fit on the page.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&p...5NDI0ZDE&pli=1

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I even considered the pay version of ridewithgps for it's mapping features, but the example they show still just does an overview map without many street names showing.

ridewithgps also automatically creates a linkable small map overview image. It's great for adding to a ride posting:

bikerjp

So has anyone figured out if the elevation correction on ridewithgps is more or less accurate than the data from an Edge 500? I would think that actual map data should be better than a gps even with barometric pressure but I guess that depends on how good their map data is.