Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Madison, WI
Bikes: 1961 Ideor, 1966 Perfekt 3 Speed AB Hub, 1994 Bridgestone MB-6, 2006 Airnimal Joey, 2009 Thorn Sherpa, 2013 Thorn Nomad MkII, 2015 VO Pass Hunter, 2017 Lynskey Backroad, 2017 Raleigh Gran Prix, 1980s Bianchi Mixte on a trainer. Others are now gone.
I used Google Maps a lot on my home computer. But never used it on my phone.
Bike touring, while rolling, I use a GPS for my navigation, phone is turned off. GPS is a general recreation one, not a bike specific one.
Bike touring, route planning ahead of time if I do not have my computer with me, I use GPS (cycle tour routing or car routing, whichever one looks better if different), Komoot, Maps.Me (car routing, avoid toll roads), and of course comparing that to paper map. And I decide which routing looks best.
There have been times that all the electronic options were worse than a rather direct route on the paper map that the electronics were avoiding. I recall one day saving over an hour by taking the straight road on the paper map that all electronics did not want to use. It was a perfectly good low traffic provincial highway with good pavement.
Komoot sometimes gives me crazy options. When that happens I pick a point in the middle on the map to force it to go through that point to make it less crazy.
I have a new phone with a bigger screen, maybe I should try Google Maps on it?