Cycling route planning and navigation specialist Ride with GPS has confirmed the launch of 3D Maps across both its web platform and mobile app. The feature allows cyclists to tilt, rotate, and zoom into routes to visualise terrain in three dimensions.
Designed to replace standard flat mapping, elevation contour lines, and shaded terrain, the tool allows riders to preview, plan, and navigate routes with additional visual context.
Riders can preview the shape of climbs and descents prior to riding, combining the 3D views with existing tools such as Community Photos, Heatmaps, and Advanced Layers. During the route planning process, users can identify steep gradients to incorporate or avoid elevation changes. For navigation, the platform delivers 3D terrain context alongside standard turn-by-turn directions on commutes, road rides, or mountain tours.
The 3D Maps functionality is integrated across multiple map styles rather than restricted to a single base layer. It supports Ride with GPS Cycle, OpenStreetMap-based styles, ESRI Topo, and USGS-based maps. Mobile app users can also overlay 3D terrain onto satellite imagery.
Kait Boyle, Global Ambassador at Ride with GPS, said “As someone who spends a lot of time in the backcountry, being able to see my routes in 3D has been a game changer for better understanding the complexity of the terrain. There’s only so much shading and contour lines can show. 3D takes it to the next level.”
Kevin Prentice, Sales and Marketing Director at Ride with GPS, added “3D Maps really clicked for me on mobile. When you’re changing a route on the fly, being able to see the terrain makes it so much easier to avoid a tough section, find an alternate climb, or get the route exactly where you want it. It also just makes the whole process of planning a ride a lot more fun.”
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