The beauty of gravel is that there is an almost endless supply of new roads, trails and places to explore. It is hard to get bored, and great rides turn up in surprising places. Someone also thought to add gam...

Trailmap's route planning takes a big leap forward. The revamped routing engine brings a wider selection of routing profiles, routing that covers the whole of Europe, and completely new features such as altern...

How Finland's MTB trail map came to be: 12 years of active community mapping An analysis of how OpenStreetMap mapping developed in Finland 2007–2025. Partly written by AI, checked and edited by a human. Intr...

The MTB classification on the OpenStreetMap map (mtb:scale and the tags that go with it) is a genuinely usable indicator of how rideable a trail is for mountain biking. The classification makes route planning ...

A new route library — aren't there quite enough of those already? There are, but there were quite enough map and route planning apps too back when Trailmap was born. The starting point for a new route library ...

Below are the 2025 season's trail updates in the order they were published. Each one includes a link to the Facebook post and the discussion around it. Trail update 1: The OSM trail map, and plenty to ride on...

Trailmap user survey 2025: what we learned and what we focus on next A big thank you to all of you who answered this summer's Trailmap user survey. Over 600 users responded, and their answers brought valuable...

Below is the 2025 season's "gravel routes" series of posts, newest to oldest. Each one includes a link to the Facebook post and the discussion around it. Gravel routes: Introduction Facebook: https://www.fac...

The revamped Trailmap has come a long way over the past few months. The reception for the new trail map, the route drawing and the other new features has been positive, and you can see it both in the strong gr...

Nearly 500 users answered the summer 2024 user survey, and their answers brought valuable information and feedback. The app's development seems to have gone in a good direction, and the completely rebuilt vers...

Are Trailmap's maps and route planning an important tool for you on your rides, runs and trips out in nature? Is Trailmap's mission, "to inspire people to get out into nature", close to your heart too? If you ...

In an earlier post I mulled over what a good gravel map looks like, and compared how usable the maps of the popular apps (Komoot, Strava, RideWithGPS, Trailmap) are for gravel riding. Now it is the turn of the...

Now where was that trail suitable for mountain biking again? Oh, there is plenty — in spring 2024 over 24000 km of it all around Finland! Take a look at https://web.trailmap.fi/maps/overview and you get an ove...

The beauty of gravel is the freedom to pick the day's route from countless options: tarmac, gravel road, forest road, a stretch of trail… Making use of that freedom takes a map (and routing engine) tuned to wh...

If the earlier version of Trailmap (below "v1") is familiar to you, the following features of the new version should produce a nice "wow" feeling. The new Trailmap map: The new Trailmap map replaces the old "...

For me the finest thing about trail running is that you can do it whenever you like, almost anywhere, with minimal gear to haul about and minimal preparation. In my own portfolio of endurance sports, trail run...

With the revamp, the Trailmap app moved to what is known as a freemium model, which means that the basic features of the app remain free of charge ("free"). The more advanced features that an active user wants...

The Trailmap v2 web app makes use of the functional solutions proven good in the first Trailmap (originally "Bikemap") app, but the technical implementation of the app's interface has been rebuilt completely f...

I see trail running as a similar sport to "gravel" in cycling: it covers a wide range between smooth running (road, in cycling) and orienteering (mountain biking, in cycling). The idea is to get off the asphal...

The year 2013: On Fillarifoorumi Antti Nissinen reports having found a possible solution to a long-discussed idea of sharing the oral tradition about the trails of the Tampere area, so that it would be easier ...