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Besides searching for places, can display possible routes between two or more of them. Do you want to plan a bicycle tour in the nearby wood? Need driving instructions to get to an address in a foreign city? Click on the Routing tab on the top of 's toolbox to start planning your trip.

Creating a new Route
In the Routing tab you'll see two green buttons A and B. Enter the start address in the input field next to the A button, the route start input field. Press or click on the Search button to find matching placemarks. A small progress animation will shorten your waiting time while the search is running. Using the search term Weavers Lane, London, the result will look similar to the screenshot below:
address search
Searching Addresses
Matching placemarks line up in the list below the input fields. They are also shown in the map. The first result is automatically selected as the route start. In the map, this position is indicated using the same A icon as the button next to the route start input field. If the first result is not your desired route start, click on any other result to make that the new start position. You can either click on it in the result list or on its icon in the map to achieve that. The currently chosen route start is always indicated using the A icon.
With the route start at hand, let's move on to enter the destination of our trip. The procedure is the same: Enter the destination address in the input field next to the B button, press and select the desired item among the result list.
Did you notice that the Search button is now gone and replaced by a Get Directions button? is signalizing that all information needed to calculate a route has been entered correctly. Click on the Get Directions button to retrieve a suitable route now. If your destination search term is Sun Walk, London, the result will resemble this screenshot:
route result
Displaying a Route
If the start (or destination) position is already visible on the screen, you may find it more convenient to select it directly in the map. To do that, click on the A (or B) button next to the input field. Select From Map in the upcoming menu. Once clicked, the map input mode is activated: The next click on a position in the map will become the start (or end) of your trip. The mouse cursor turns into a cross to ease an accurate selection. The selected position will be included in the route and marked in the map. To abort the selection, either click on the button again or press .
An alternative selection of the route start and destination is provided via the context menu of the map: Click with the on the desired location and select Directions from here or Directions to here, respectively.

Route Profiles
Which route to choose depends on the type of vehicle you plan to use (if any). You can tell about this and other preferences using route profiles. Each profile contains the settings for a certain routing scenario. On the first start, creates four common profiles for you: Car (fastest), Car (shortest), Bike, and Pedestrian.
The examples in the previous sections used the Car (fastest) profile. Let's revisit the last route with a different profile: Select the Pedestrian option in the Profile combo box. The route now looks like this:
pedestrian routing
Pedestrian routing
The proposed route has become shorter because footways are now also included when calculating the best route.
If you want to tweak one of the default profiles further, select it in the Profile combo box and click on the Configure link. A new window opens.
route profile configuration
Route Profile configuration
The left side lets you configure which routing backends are queried for routes. Eight or more backends are supported by , some working online and the other ones working offline. Online routing requires an Internet connection to query a route. Offline routing works without an Internet connection, but requires you to download and install offline routing maps in advance. The supported routing backends are
CycleStreets: Bicycle routing for the United Kingdom using cyclestreets.net
Gosmore: An offline router that also serves as the backend for the Yours online router
MapQuest: An online router which provides advanced turn-by-turn instructions
An AppKey is required for MapQuest routing to work. You can register the AppKey here.
Monav: An offline router that is very fast even when calculating very large routes
OSRM: An online router that is very fast even when calculating very large routes
OpenRouteService: An online router that also generates driving instructions, limited to Europe
Routino: An offline router with a very flexible configuration
Yours: An online router that operates world-wide, but lacks driving instructions
Once you select and enable a routing backend on the left to include it in routing queries, you can modify its settings on the right side. The settings are specific to each backend.
Besides configuring the four default profiles, you can add new profiles and remove existing ones in the settings in the Routing page.

Adjusting Routes
let's you modify several aspects of the route for fine-tuning: Change route options, insert via points, move or remove existing points. The modification of route options has been discussed in the previous section already; we'll concentrate on point management now.
Inserting via points is done by drag-and-drop in the map. Every time you move the mouse pointer above any part of the route (except above existing trip points), a green flag icon appears to indicate that it is possible to insert a via point. To start the insert operation, click with the . Move the mouse pointer to the desired new position while keeping the pressed. Blue lines from the neighboring via points to the new position will appear:
route adding via points
Inserting a via point
The new via point will be inserted between the existing neighbor via points once you release the . At the same time the existing route is painted dotted to indicate that it contains outdated information. In the background, a new route is prepared which will replace the outdated one automatically.
It is also possible to add via points before the start or after the end of the route. To do that, follow the instructions above for inserting a new via point, but press while moving the mouse. One blue line from the start or the end of the route appears. Its origin indicates where the new via point will be appended.
Existing via points can be moved freely across the map. Move the mouse pointer above a via point and drag it to its new location. Once released, the route will be updated automatically.
To exclude via points from the route, remove them. This can be done using either the Remove button next to the via point input field or by clicking with the on the via point in the map. In the context menu, choose Remove this destination. To start an entirely new route, remove all via points.

Loading, Saving and Exporting Routes
You can save routes in kml (Keyhole Markup Language) format and load them again at a later point - on the same computer or a different device running , or share them with your friends or other applications which are able to read kml files (like Google Earth). To save a route to a .kml file, click on the Save icon on the bottom of the routing tab. The upcoming save dialog allows you to choose a file name to save the route to. Similarly loading a route is initiated with the Open icon on the bottom of the routing tab. Select the .kml route file to open in the upcoming open dialog and loads the route from it.
Routes planned in can be used in other applications or navigation devices which support gpx (GPS eXchange Format) or equivalent formats. If your navigation device does not support gpx directly, you can use a conversion utility like gpsbabel to convert a gpx file exported by to a suitable format. The export of a route in is initiated from the routing context menu in the map. Click with the on any point of the route in the map. In the context menu that appears, choose Export route...:
route export
Exporting a Route
Enter the desired filename in the upcoming save dialog. The filename extension should be gpx to store in gpx format or kml to store in kml (Keyhole Markup Language) format. Note that the internal format of is kml; in doubt save routes as kml and only use gpx to share routes with other applications that are not capable of reading kml files.