Online sharing platform

[voodoo_simon]

Is there a (free) online site for sharing sections of routes?

A few friends ask where I ride or where a certain section is but I don’t do Strava and I don’t fancy entering into the worlds of sharing all my rides either, but something that could highlight a section would be perfect

Cheers

[Bearbonesnorm]

Could you not just send them a gpx file via email? I'll grant you, it's a bit old school but pretty much fool-proof.

[PaulB2]

You can share routes on Komoot without having a paid account - I’ve only ever used it to plan and/or swap routes with friends, I’ve never recorded a ride. You can also upload a gpx as a route, edit it to suit and then share it with only specific people

[voodoo_simon]

Thanks both, was hoping there would be something like Strava that I could highlight sections rather than map out a full ride.

Might go with the Komoot option and just send them some A-B rides rather than full rides (trouble is I rarely record all my rides or plan them as it’s all in my noggin for local stuff)

[Bearbonesnorm]

Get yourself over to bikehike Simon and route those sections that people ask about. Save as gps tracks and email out when folk inquire.

[voodoo_simon]

Get yourself over to bikehike Simon and route those sections that people ask about. Save as gps tracks and email out when folk inquire.

Good thinking, that will work

[jameso]

Thanks both, was hoping there would be something like Strava that I could highlight sections rather than map out a full ride.

Might go with the Komoot option and just send them some A-B rides rather than full rides (trouble is I rarely record all my rides or plan them as it’s all in my noggin for local stuff)

Ride with GPS is useful (upload a GPS file, edit, reload etc) but sectioning and saving a part of a ride as a new route file may be a membership feature rather than free. It's worthwhile though, a useful pure gox file tool with the only real drawback being lack of an Ordnance Survey layer.

[PaulB2]

The main problem i've had with RWGPS is that it really seems to prefer the road when auto-routing and I couldn't find a way to tweak the settings.

[voodoo_simon]

Once again, thanks. I’ll have a look at those options

[fatbikerbill]

You could use strava, sorry, but set your default ride permission to private.

That way all rides are automatically private.

Then when you want to share a specific ride or route change the permissions on just that one.

In the unlikely event you do take up strava there is a privacy setting that sets the start and end of every ride as invisible even to followers. Very sensible and highly recommended.