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Brouter is definitely one of the most useful resources if you're planning a ride: accurate routing, clear interface, import/export as GPX, etc.



It's good but as far as the interface goes there are some oddities due to linguistic weirdness (in my opinion, English not being my first language). For example there are a bunch of vehicle types for which I have to open the profile customization to figure out what it means. 'fastbike' also doen't seem a very common name (to test: enter that in a search engine and compare results with 'speedpedelec'). Another example: in the profile thare's 'cost' for downhill and uphill, but for fastbike the one for downhill defaults to 60 and the one for downhill 0. So is 'cost' wrong (sounds like penalty) or should the numbers be the other way around?


Try the glossary for more information. For example here is some help on the downhillcost:

https://github.com/poutnikl/Brouter-profiles/wiki/Glossary#d


I used brouter to make a map of the vintage MTB fest:

Http://www.vintagemtb.org/maps




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