Help and FAQ

Zoomed right out, each triangle is a climb, and the dashed outlines are hill regions where climbs crowd together. Click a region's name to zoom in and see only its climbs; remove its chip (or click the map outside it) to see all of them again. Zoom in and the climbs become coloured lines.

Hold the scroll wheel (the middle mouse button) and drag: up and down tilts the map, sideways turns it. A right-click drag works too. On a phone or tablet, drag up or down with two fingers to tilt, and twist two fingers to turn.

The switch at the bottom right colours the climbs by Difficulty (green easy to dark red very hard), Steepness (the gradient of each stretch) or Altitude (height above sea level).

Yes: the layers button on the map has a switch for each of them, and for trains. Your choices are remembered in this browser.

From the climb's length, the height it gains and its steepest stretches. 1 is a gentle rise, 10 the hardest climbs, like the Koppenberg.

Tell us which climb (copy its link from the climb's panel) and what is wrong. Some climbs are left out on purpose: in big cities only the verified and the hard ones show, and bridge ramps, farm tracks and footpaths are hidden by default (Filters → Show on the map).

Open the climb and press Route to climb. The route planner opens and plans a route from your location to the foot of the climb and up it. If you'd rather not share your location, click the map where you want to start.

Press Close at the top of the route in the panel. The planner is empty again (Undo brings the old route back).

Press Export GPX and copy the file to your bike computer or import it in its app.

No. An account lets you save routes and see them on another device.