About route planning

Bikenavi also allows you to use a computer for planning. It is the optimal way to plan a route, making planning more enjoyable thanks to the larger screen and mouse.

Plan your route carefully in advance on your computer and then open it in the Bikenavi mobile app.

Applications always work seamlessly together.

Route planning on the computer

This is how route planning works on a computer

1 Plan

Log in at app.bikenavi.fi and plan a route.

2 Save or export the file

Save a completed route

Or

Export your saved route
As a GPX file.

3 Open route

Open your saved route
In the Bikenavi mobile app

Or

Download the route's GPX file to your preferred navigation device.

Features

Two ways
plan a route

Option 1: Draw freely

  • Use the right mouse button to add or remove waypoints. If you are using a tablet, long press to add a point.
  • You can move the points you have added freely on the map and also add waypoints to the route.

Option 2: Use addresses to help you

You can easily make a longer route by entering

  • Address of the departure point
  • Destination address
  • Milestones
  • All points can still be moved

Recording routes

You can save your planned routes to My Routes.

  • Saved routes are immediately visible in the mobile app.

Search

You can search by typing in the search box:

  • Name (Vaasa or Neste Oulunbar)
  • Address (Isokatu 10, Oulu)
  • Category (e.g. petrol stations)

Road surface infomation

You can see the road surface on the map. The information is available for Finland and Sweden.

Google Street View

Right-click to get a Google Street View view of the road. You can use this to help you plan your route.

Google Street View

Other information

The application also includes:

  • Road works (Finland)
  • Metsähallitus location information (Finland)
    • Dry toilet
    • Cooking canopy/BBQ canopy
    • Lean-to, half-hut
    • Day care center
    • Sauna
    • Camping area
    • Campfire site
    • Rental house/rental cabin
    • Hut
  • Lipas location information (Finland)

Route export

You can also save a route in Bikenavi As a GPX file* and download it to your desired navigation device.

*GPX (GPS Exchange Format) is a file format used to store and share GPS data.

Works together

Route planning and the Bikenavi mobile app work seamlessly together.

Bikenavi mobile app

You can also easily plan a route using the quick route function in the mobile app.

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