route planner
Trip direction finder
A route planner is a tool—usually software or a website—that calculates the best path between locations.
It considers distance, traffic, and mode of transport to suggest directions: I plugged the address into the route planner.
The term also applies to people who plan routes professionally, as for delivery services or military operations.
- GPSSatellite-based location technology
- mapSpatial representation of terrain
- directionsGuidance for reaching somewhere
- Dijkstra's algorithmShortest path computation method
- navigationDetermining position and course
road map · guide · wayfinding · back roads · digital maps · cartography · mapping software · ETA · shortest path · coordinates · journey · waypoint · miles · arrival · detour · traffic · rush hour · turn-by-turn
- transit guidestransit map, transit maps, subway map, subway maps, bus map
- public transitbus, train, subway, metro, tram
- navigationcompass, compass rose, signs, charts, navbar
- road mapsroad atlas, highway map, street map, city map, country map
- transit workersbus driver, subway operator, train conductor, train driver, train operator
- bike touringbike tour, panniers, bikepacking, touring bikes, touring bike
route plannerpaper map
Printed geographic reference
dead reckoning · road atlas · celestial navigation · intuition · compass
route plannerwandering
Traveling with no fixed course
getting lost · drifting · meandering · roaming · free roaming
plan, route, planned, planning, planner, routed, routes, planners, routing