Searching a route
Table of contents
- Searching for a route using the RouteSearcher
- Looking for very specific routes via "More options"
- FAQs
Searching for a route using the RouteSearcher
Go to the RouteSearch page of RouteYou.
Overview of the RouteSearcher
- The green buttons at the top allow you to select a specific or general route type (read here more about route types).
- Next to the green buttons, there are extra selection criteria (see also "More options").
- On the map you see one route per cluster (read here more about clusters). If you want to see more routes per cluster, use the + sign on the top right of the list.
- You see the routes also in a list (right). Not all the routes fulfilling the criteria are shown. If you want to see more than shown in the list, use the + sign on the top right of the list.
Searching for a route step by step
- Select a route type
- Select an area by adding an address or place name in the field "Where"
- Use keywords to find a specific route (e.g. "Newton"). We select routes having this word in the title or the description. Adapt the "score"-value if you look for a very specific route (see below).
- Score: Default, we set the score from 3-5 to show you our recommended routes (read here about the score or quality of a route).
- Author: Find back your routes or the routes of a specific author
- Select the field: "Author".
- Enter the first letters of the name you are looking for
- This could also be your account name
- If you are logged in, the first option is "My routes"
- You get a list of account names matching your input
- This could also be your account name
You want to see the route in the RouteViewer? Just click on the icon.
Remark! If you don't find a specific route or any route, adapt the score-value from 0-5
Go to the RouteSearch page of RouteYou.
Looking for very specific routes via "More options"
Use the 'More options'-link to enter extra search criteria and sorting functions on this page (see figure above):
- Length: Search a route based on a minimum and maximum lenght value.
- Theme/characteristics/groups: You can search routes based on specific themes or characteristics a route is linked to (e.g. routes linked to the theme science, film, nature, heritage,...). You can even make your own group and add routes (or POIs) to this group, so you can easily find them later on.
- Language: With "language" you filter on the routes of a specicic language
- Difficulty level: This options allows you to select routes based on their difficulty, from "Very easy" to "Very hard". Combine this with length and you have a great tool to build your training scheme.
- Route sorting: this allows you to sort the list of routes in different ways:
- Relevance (this is the default sorting, based on a complex function of score, creation date, popularity, downloads, popular length...)
- Name (alphabetically)
- Most viewed of all time
- Most viewed this month
- Most recently created or edited
- Score (read more about the score here)
Auto zoom
When selecting the auto-zoom, the map pans and zooms in on the area of the results (queried routes). When the auto-zoom is swithced off, the map will not automatically pan or zoom, but your area is fixed (unless you pan or zoom manually). The results (if any) will be displayed in your map area.
FAQs
How can I find "child friendly routes"?
- Go to the general Route Searcher (click on this link to get there)
- Select the "More options" to do a more detaield filtering of the routes (see figure above)
- Select as "Charachteristic" "Child Friendly"