Selecting a starting and end point

Start planning by selecting the starting and end point of your route.

Selecting starting and end points on the map

Click anywhere on the map and select “Start Here“. The komoot route planner will automatically save it as your starting point. Click on another point on the map to mark your destination.

Search for your starting and end point

Search for a place or address to add it as starting or end point. If you do so by clicking on the dark green starting/end point field on the left-hand side, your selected location will be automatically saved as such.

Adding waypoints

Adding waypoints via the map

Click anywhere on the map to add another waypoint. If you click “Include on route,” the komoot route planner will automatically add and sort the new waypoint at the best possible spot on your route.

Additionally you can select any point of interest (as displayed by the icon) or Highlight (as displayed by the icon) and add them as waypoints to your route.

Search for additional waypoints

When searching for a place or address, your selected point will appear on the map with the option to complete associated actions, such as adding it to your route. Click “Include on route” to automatically add the place or address as a new waypoint.

Adding waypoints manually

Click on + to add a new waypoint. This creates a new waypoint right before the endpoint of your route and you can use the input field to enter an address.

Adjust your route with drag and drop

Drag the route line to adjust your route

Adjust the route by dragging the line anywhere to create a new waypoint.

Moving waypoints

Move existing waypoints around via drag and drop. Their order will not be changed.

Sort waypoints

You can reorder your waypoints at any time by dragging them up or down within the planning menu on the left-hand side. You might need to display all waypoints before you can change their order.

Change the direction of the entire route by pressing the button

Undo changes

If you accidentally removed a waypoint or want to undo your last changes, click 'Undo' in the toolbar.

Display train stations, restaurants and other interesting places along your route

Use the categories menu inside the search to show or hide places recommended by other users (Highlights) and other points of interest, such as train stations or restaurants. You can display multiple categories at the same time.

Singletracks for mountain bike routes

Single tracks are displayed on the map as black lines with a green label. The label refers to the single track's difficulty, ranging from S0 for easy to S5 for difficult. This is in accordance with the Single Track Scale. If you want to see what waytype you're going to be riding on, you can hide the blue line by pressing M.

Avoid steep climbs

Identify steep sections

Check the elevation to see changes along your route. The line stays green on flat sections and turns red on steep segments. For more detail, click and drag on the elevation display to zoom into specific sections.

Adjust your route

Adjust your route by dragging the route line to a better path or adding waypoints to bypass problem areas.

Optimize way types and surfaces

See way type and surface breakdowns for your entire route by applying the way type and surfaces filter in settings.

Planing off-grid routes/segments

Off-grid segments can be useful in the case a road, path or trail is missing from the komoot database. It allows you to plan a route off the komoot grid, i.e. ignoring komoot's network of known roads or paths.

If you plan an off-grid route, your navigation experience might not be as accurate as routes planned along komoot's network of known roads or paths. Komoot cannot guarantee that your route is passable.

Add off-grid waypoints

To add an off-grid waypoint, simply click on the map to select the location of the waypoint and uncheck Follow ways. Komoot will then draw a straight line to this waypoint instead of routing you along komoot's network of known roads or paths.

Route off-grid to existing waypoints

To convert the routing of an already existing waypoint into an off-grid segment, simply click on the waypoint and uncheck Follow ways. The segments of your route leading to and from this waypoint will then ignore komoot's network of known roads or paths.

Plan off-grid segments

To update an individual segment of your route to an off-grid segment, click on that portion of your route and simply deselect Follow ways in the dialog box. The planned segment will then be converted into an off-grid segment, ignoring komoot's network of known roads or paths.