Welcome Ian, I usually map my routes in Strava, with the CityStrides life map open in another window. Strava automatically sends the saved route to my Garmin Forerunner 245 then off I go. My watch gives turn-by-turn directions but (I’ve posted previously) has a limited capacity to do that so then I’m left squinting at the small watch screen. I usually take my phone with me too, and pull that out if I need to zoom in. [The route-builder in CityStrides came about after I started using CS and I’ve been lazy in not engaging with it]
A lot of US cities may well be grids but over here in the UK you’ll know we have a lot more wiggly roads and dead ends… There is no perfect way to find the optimal route (unless you’re some sort of Alan Turing style mathematical-code-breaking genius) but it’s fun trying to optimise it. I often spend lots of time trying to find an optimal route to blitz all the roads in an area, only to find myself two weeks later unavoidably covering a road again en-route to another street #firstworldproblems
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