From Trailguru

Routes on Trailguru allow you share routes with other people in the community, learn about new places to explore, and download them to your GPS so you don't have to make all the navigation mistakes everyone else has already the first time on a trail. This is the core of what Trailguru is about and you are encouraged to create and download routes on the site.

Each route starts with a map which is the principal way that you visualize and edit the route. The route to shown describes a road biking route from Santa Cruz to Mountain View in California and it has start and end points and intermediary waypoints used to describe and adjust the route. [[Trailguru:Route Creation|Creating] and editing the route are described in more detail in two other articles.

Moving down below the map, there is a self-explanatory description but also timing information for the route. This timing is calculated using GPS track data submitted by the community or by estimating the timing using the average from other GPS tracks submitted by other users of the site for this category of activity. None of this information will be exactly correct for you, of course, as different outdoor users will have different abilities and paces, but it does give you an important indication of how much time it has taken others to do the route and what you are getting yourself into.

Finally, each route page provides an elevation graph for the route (when elevation data is available). For mountainous areas, this is another crucial piece of information for any route.

More Information about Routes

• Route Creation
• Route Editing
• ... or have a look at an example.