I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get an idea of the elevation profile of a planned route made on Google Maps. I know you can use a tool like the Garmin Base Camp to plan routes, but that software is utter crap to make a route on - at least the Mac version. It's very easy to make a route on Google Maps, but I don't see a way to export a gpx that could be imported to Base Camp or any of the online sites like ridewithgps.com. Thanks.

And Happy Thanksgiving.

mapmyride.com has an elevation feature for their route planning. It isn't super detailed but will show you the basic profile of your route as well as the total amount of climbing that you would do.

Ah, thanks. I guess I didn't dig deep enough. Thought you could only upload a file. Kind of sad that a free tool like ridewithgps has a better planning tool than the Garmin software.

Yep, mapmyride.com

mapmyride is horribly inaccurate as far as total climbing feet. It can be off by 40% or more. It is pretty good at telling you your exact elevation though.

ridewithgps is the opposite, and hence much more useful for biking.

bikeroutetoaster.com lets you create routes without registering and download gpx or tcx files. You can switch between OSM and Google maps on the fly, as well as view the route in Google Earth. Recent versions of Google Earth can display elevation profiles, with a crosshair cursor that shows you both the elevation and gradient at the cursor position.

+4, good enough for me.

Actually, I was using ridewithgps.com and it has the route planner that I ended up using. Works fine, although I don't know how accurate it is as I don't have any way to reference it. Guess I could export it to Garmin Connect as it supposedly has a way to adjust elevations based on actual measurements.

+1...best bike route mapping site I've found.

I've been really happy with ridewithgps so far too, and now that I figured out to map a future ride and get an idea of distance, elevation, etc. it's about about perfect for my needs. I especially like that if paired with a smartphone running MyTracks it seems to be more or less on par with Garmin Connect without the need to buy a Garmin. Although I'm still considering something to monitor HR as my phone won't do that, yet.

My current fav for simplicity is to use https://the-yosts.com/googlemap_cuesheet.html
It simply takes your google maps route and generates cue sheets, elevation profile, tiny URL links and GPX files.

Ride with GPS has given me too many missed turns and map my ride has been a bit hinky, though that may be user error.

+1
Huge bikeroutetoaster fan. It just works.

So far there seem to be 3 fairly decent sites for this - ride with gps, bike route toaster and map my ride. After checking out each, they all seem to do basically the same thing. Aside from subtle differences like the need to create an account or more or less site clutter, are there any major differences in what one of these sites offers over the others that I'm missing? I think my favorite so far is ride with gps but bike route toaster seems pretty nice too. Thanks.