BRouter: Let’s get serious about bike routing

There’s a lot of routing software on the market, both free and commercial, both online and offline, both OSM and proprietary maps. However, when it comes to bike routing, it’s hard to find something that’s really useful. There’s far less money and engineering power in the field compared to car navigation.

What do we expect from a bike routing software? It should be able to calculate more or less the routes that match your experience in the regions you are familiar with, thus giving you confidence that it yields the same quality in unknown regions. Scanning the market with that expectation gives little to no result.

Here’s what makes BRouter unique:

It uses freely configurable routing profiles
It works fully offline on any Android phone and is interfaced to some of the most popular Android map tools
It uses a sophisticated routing-algorithm with elevation consideration
It offers alternative route calculations
It supports via and nogo-points
It can consider long distance cycle routes

Routing data is available worldwide with automatic weekly updates

BRouter uses OpenStreetMap

BRouter uses user-generated, collaboratively collected free geodata. Thanks to OpenStreetMap.org and contributors - please donate your geographic data to openstreetmap.org! See the License description for details.

Online versions

Check brouter-web or bikerouter.de if you want to use BRouter online.

Android app for offline routing

See Android quickstart guide for how to setup BRouter for offline routing on an Android smartphone.

Revision history

See the revision history for older revisions of the app and the change-log.

Privacy Policy

Please see privacy policy

Google group for support questions and feedback

Please use the osm-android-bikerouting google group for any questions/feedback.