Journey Planner for Cycling and Walking

Journey Planner for Cycling

Route Search

You can point on the place of departure and the destination on the map or fill in the text fields on the left hand side on the page. When using the text option, you are presented with a dropdown menu of possible choices after three typed characters. The service recognizes street names and place-names. When pointing on the map, the address closest to the place you clicked is chosen. If no street address is found close to the place where you clicked, the coordinates of the chosen place are shown. You start the search with the Search-button.

Adding via points to your route

It's possible to add via points between the place of departure and the destination. When cursor is located on the map you can point a via point to your route by single clicking the left button on your mouse. It's possible to add five via points at the maximum. Via points are numbered from one to five and the route will be generated via them by numerical order. You can move the via point by pointing it to new place on the map. New route will be generated by clicking the Search-button. If you want to totally delete the via point from your route, you have to select “remove” by the point.

Mode of transport

Use the drop-down menu to choose cycling or walking as the preferred mode of transport. The default mode of transport is cycling.

Route Calculation

By default routes are calculated using cycle paths. There are three more routing profiles available: preferring paved / gravelled paths and the shortest route. The shortest route can include equally cycle paths and streets.

Search Result

The route is shown on the map and also the route distance and an estimated duration is shown in plain text. In the map presentation the different types of routes are distinguished by different colours. The used categories are asphalt surfaced paths, unsurfaced paths and a segment in the street network. The data base does not have information about the surfacing of some of the paths; these are marked with a separate colour. You can affect the duration by altering the speed.

Printing the Route

You can print the whole route split into sections with the printing function on the upper right edge. The route is split into sections so that two of the closest level map pictures fit on one A4 sheet. There may be many pages to print, if the searched route is long.

Browser Requirements

The most essential part of the user interface for the Journey Planner for Cycling is a map display based upon Ajax technology. This means that the service can only be used on relatively new browsers. Its functionality has been tested on the new browser versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. Safari browser for Mac is now supported.

Data used

The route suggestions are calculated utilizing various spatial data sets. The data used include routes from the Helsinki metropolitan area outdoor map, national street and road database Digiroad and data sets collected by HSL's member municipalities.