Route Planning: want to be able to plan a longer route

[Amritt]

Now that we have filters on routes, can we get them to be more useful. Currently the route filter for distance allows you to select anything between 0 and 82km.....which is pretty useless. All my routes tend to be over 100km, so the distance filter is useless. 
Changing it to be up to 200 or 300km would at least allow everyone to actually filter their routes by distance

[Amritt]

similar applies to elevation filter too....

[Soren]

Thanks for submitting your idea to expand the criteria in the route filtering functionality. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[virtualdynamo]

Here's a workaround. Join VeloViewer. Then you can filter your routes (or your activities or segments) in ways you'd never imagined possible. There's a ton of fun analytics that is well worth the price.

[Amritt]

Hi virtualdynamo,

have been with veloviewer for years but never even considered that, thanks

[Rikh]

Decided to give Strava a go again after having cancelled my premium subsription a few years ago. While some aspects of the routebuilder are really good, this one really prevents me from using it.

I'm planning a route from Belgium to Austria, 1200-1500km, with a gravelbike. I put up my tent every night a few hours after it gets dark so don't have fixed stopping points to add to my routes.

I want to add a start point and endpoint to the route planner (more than 300km apart), and then drag in extra waypoints to see what impact they have on distance and elevation profile.

This is impossible in strava 😞 
The only thing you'll see is this:

and this:

It'll never work. 

I needed to add 10 (TEN!) waypoints to my 1200km route before it would calculate the route from A to B without crashing the web application.

For reference, all these routeplanners do this (some even for free) without crashing, in a matter of seconds, without waypoints added:

1. Komoot (onetime fee)
2. RideWithGPS (free)
3. RouteYou (free)
4. Bikemap

Frankly, I find it harder to find another routeplanner that has this limitation, than it is to find ones that haven't. 

This issue occurs as soon as you ride long dayrides (250-300km) on mixed terrain. It simply renders the planning app unusable. 

It was this way when i cancelled my premium 2-3 years ago, and it's quite disappointing to see nothing has changed/improved. 

[Jane]

Thanks for submitting your idea. It has been reviewed by our moderation team and is now open to voting.

[tyleha]

This seems like an extraordinarily simple improvement that could be prioritized. In american units, i can only filter rides to a max of 50 miles. Most of the great, long weekend routes are 60, 70, 80 miles for our group. Can't we just have some more distance options in the slider, or have a textbox to type in manual filters?

[virtualdynamo]

@Rikh I feel your pain. However, all those other route planners you mention have inferior digital elevation models (DEMs). So, "drag[ging] in extra waypoints to see what impact they have on distance" works in those other route planners, but you shouldn't be using this technique to contrast elevation profiles. Only Strava, with its crowd-sourced DEM does a decent job on popular roads. As for myself, I create courses using Plotaroute (PaR). The only course points are cities with a reasonable chance of resupply that I manually enter. I then import the PaR GPX to Strava to get the elevation and export a TCX. (I then run the TCX from Strava through a model to generate a realistic Virtual Partner). Last, I append the course points from the PaR TCX and that is what I put on my GPS.

[stravasuggester]

The maximum distance and elevation of the filters in My Routes are too low.

Create the option to be able to filter rides of greater distances rather than just being 82km+ and 762m+