Route planner with heights (for bikes)

Route planner with heights (for bikes)

1/4/2022 11:30:31 AM

You could use https://www.plotaroute.com/routeplanner which supports a "By Bike" button up on the toolbar and, once a route has been created by clicking a series of locations on the map, offers a "Hills" profile that can be selected from the right-hand toolbar.

Example Paris bicycling route

You can then hover your mouse over the elevation profile and see a marker move along the route that corresponds to the same location.

6/20/2017 7:03:13 PM

You can use komoot, a well working bike and hiking planning tool. Also available as an app offering offsite maps but those have to be payed for (Paris is available for about 4€).

App Tour Overview
App Tour Profile

I only used it for Germany yet but it also knows about the paving!

6/20/2017 3:44:15 PM

Update: A couple of years after this question was first asked, Google Maps started including elevation data as part of their cycling directions. I don’t think the coverage is universal, but it does include much of the US and Europe.
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8/9/2013 2:43:00 PM

9/30/2012 10:30:17 PM

You could use GPSVisualizer. You can easily plan your tour with Google Maps or whatever tool you like and then use GPSVisualizer to genera a height chart.

For example I used Google Maps to navigate from Sacre Coeur to the Eiffel Tower:

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And here is the corresponding height profile:

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1/4/2022 12:34:23 PM

I think what you probably want is the OpenStreetMap powered OpenRouteService.

When using OpenRouteService, once it has calculated your route, the left pane will show the Altitude graph, which can be expanded to show an interactive graph, coloured by steepness, waytype or road surface:

Height profile from OpenStreetMap/OpenRouteService

If you want to try it out, and see a steep climb profile, try this link and then scroll to the Altitude panel when it has loaded. It’s a long long climb up from the centre of Heidelberg to the lookout above it, but much more fun done the other way round 😉

OpenRouteService will work anywhere there’s good OSM coverage for, so you’ll be fine in Paris, but you might hit the odd area in the countryside without all the off-road routes. It’s available in a few language,including in French, so that part of your question is covered too!

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