Motorcycle route generator

How the route generator works

1. Set the startSearch for a town or address, tap the map or use your location. You can drag the pin afterwards.
2. Choose direction, length and curvesPick one of eight directions or leave it on any direction for a random loop. Set the length in kilometres, miles or hours, then choose Relaxed, Twisty or Very twisty. Skip motorways, tolls or dirt roads if you want to.
3. GenerateThe generator checks many loops on real roads and keeps the best three. Tap Another one for different loops.
4. Send it to your phoneScan the QR code or open the link. The tour lands in My Tours in the Motoseyir app, ready for turn-by-turn navigation.

How the loops are made

The generator puts a circle through your start point and sets three or four stops on it, so the ride runs out in your chosen direction and comes back around. It then snaps the stops to real roads and asks the route engine for the route. Roads are not circles, so every candidate is measured on the route that comes back.

Each candidate is scored on three things: how many sharp bends it has per kilometre, how far its length is from what you asked for, and how much of the way back repeats the way out. The three best loops that differ from each other are shown. If a mountain pass lies within reach, at least one loop is routed over it and the pass is named on the card.

• Relaxed favours flowing roads, motorways allowed unless you switch them off.
• Twisty and Very twisty lean towards back roads and curves.
• Over a mountain pass keeps only loops that cross a known pass.
• Time uses an average speed for the curve level to turn hours into kilometres, then checks the real driving time of each route.

From the browser to your phone

The page does not draw turn-by-turn directions. Navigation stays in the Motoseyir app, where you can also reorder the stops, add places by long-pressing the map and ride the tour with voice guidance.

When you tap Send to my phone, the tour is saved under an eight-character code. The QR code and the link both lead to that code, and the app opens it in My Tours. Codes work for 30 days. You do not need an account on this page.

Places along the route and routes near you

Under a generated round trip, Places along the route shows up to five viewpoints, food and coffee stops, campsites, bays or fuel stops close to the route. Add one as a stop and the route is calculated again; the tour you send to your phone includes it.

Routes near you lists legendary rides and mountain passes in the part of the map you are looking at. Tap a line or a pin to see it. Open this tour draws the real route and sends it down the same path to your phone.

The places come from Motoseyir's own place database, built from OpenStreetMap, Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps data. It holds no ratings or reviews, so this page shows none. Every place along the route, with details, is part of Discover in Motoseyir Pro.

What to check before you ride

• Road data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors. Gaps and mistakes exist; look at the route on the map before you set off.
• Mountain passes close in winter and for roadworks. Check the operator's current notice for the pass you want to ride.
• Times are estimates without traffic. Add time for stops, fuel and photos.
• A card can show a ferry, unpaved or toll section. If you chose to avoid a road type and the area has no other road, the card says so.

Which data goes where

The page needs no account and sets no cookies. It remembers your last settings and a random device ID in your browser's local storage; you can clear them in your browser settings.

Your start point and the stops of each candidate go to the route engine: in Turkey and Greece to Motoseyir's own route server, elsewhere to a public OpenStreetMap-based routing service, which sees your IP address like any website. Searching for a place and looking up place names send the text or coordinates to the Photon service (OpenStreetMap data). Map tiles come from Motoseyir's server. A tour is stored only when you tap Send to my phone: its name, stops and settings, for 30 days, without any information about who sent it. Looking for places along a route sends the route line, without names, to Motoseyir's server. Legendary routes and passes are loaded from this site and are not sent anywhere.

Frequently asked questions

• Is the motorcycle route generator free?

  Yes. You can generate and look at round trips on this page for free and without an account. Motoseyir itself is a free download; some features such as Back roads mode belong to Motoseyir Pro, and the free plan keeps one saved tour.

• How do I get a random motorcycle route?

  Leave the direction on Any direction, set a length and tap Generate round trip. Tap Another one to get different loops with the same settings.

• Does it work outside Turkey?

  Yes, anywhere OpenStreetMap has roads. In Turkey and Greece the routes come from Motoseyir's own route server; elsewhere a public routing service is used, which can be slower or busy at times.

• How do I get the route onto my phone?

  Tap Send to my phone under your round trip. On a computer, scan the QR code with your phone camera. On a phone, tap Open in Motoseyir. The tour appears in My Tours.

• Can I find places along my route?

  Yes. Open Places along the route under your round trip and choose viewpoints, food and coffee, camping, bays or fuel. You see up to five places near the line, and you can add one as a stop.

• Where do the legendary routes and passes come from?

  They are the same lists the Motoseyir app uses. Each legendary route card names its source, and the pass positions come from OpenStreetMap. Opening times of passes change from year to year, so check the operator's notice before you ride.

• I do not have the app or I use Android. What happens?

  The link takes iPhone users to the App Store. Motoseyir is on the App Store for iPhone for now; the Android version is not on Google Play yet. The tour code stays valid for 30 days.

• Can it avoid motorways and tolls?

  Yes. Switch on No motorways, No tolls or No dirt before you generate. These are preferences for the route engine, and each card shows if a section could not be avoided.

• How long is the round trip?

  Close to the length you set. The generator accepts a deviation and corrects the size of the loop once if the first route comes out too long or too short.