Free mapping software?

[Steampig]

Hello All,

Have been doing a lot of local running recently around marked tracks and footpaths. I cant find a decent free mapping device which will allow me to plot the routes we have run and work out the miles covered. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance

[DazTheSlug]

I use runningahead.com but there are loads of similar ones

[plodding bear]

I use one called Mapometer.com. seems pretty good.

[Sam Harrison]

I use the Map My Fitness sites (www.mapmyrun.com) which are great for road running but crap for fell. If you want to plot routes on OS maps for free then try http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ - it's not amazing but it does the trick.

[superflyguy]

I use the Map My Fitness sites (www.mapmyrun.com) which are great for road running but crap for fell. If you want to plot routes on OS maps for free then try http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ - it's not amazing but it does the trick.

I used MapMyRun for ages, as like you I was mostly running tracks and footpaths, however if you go off the beaten track it is indeed pretty crap - relying on your best guess at the route taken. I recently bought a Garmin Forerunner and use Sporttracks, a combination which is infinitely better, but obviously not free!

[JohnK]

I use this http://www.grough.co.uk/route/

It`s not free but at £1-80 month for full country 1:25,000 scale mapping with full digital Functionality and the facility to upload/download from GPS, plus the facility to print.

I reckon it`s a bargain

[Fnstein]

I use runningahead.com but there are loads of similar ones

Me too - but I'm going to try the Grough option.

[Epocian]

Go to Googlemaps

type in your starting point - then go to 'satellite view' and enlarge it so you can see where you went
On the left of the screen go to 'My maps' click on it
then click on 'distance measurement tool' (choose either metric or imperial
then start drawing your route (if you make a mistake use 'delete last point' tool

It's free too (incidentally nearly all the other measurement tools are based on google maps)

[FarFromTheFells]

I use this http://www.grough.co.uk/route/

It`s not free but at £1-80 month for full country 1:25,000 scale mapping with full digital Functionality and the facility to upload/download from GPS, plus the facility to print.

I reckon it`s a bargain

That's the one I use. Can't fault it at the price.

[Stolly]

OS explore is really quite good too, if you don't take their distant measurements too seriously (mileage is often a mile or more than they calculate).
http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/