Want to flip your route or change its direction? With just one click, you can easily reverse it.
This is only possible via the website.
Available with a RouteYou Plus or higher.
Every RouteYou route has a set direction. You’ll see that in the RouteViewer and in plenty of other places:
- On prints, the direction and instructions are shown (with distances from the start) along with POIs on the route.
- The RouteYou App shows how far you’ve gone and how much further you need to go to reach the end.
- Many GPS systems take the direction into account to give instructions
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Sometimes you might want to change the direction of a route. You can even do this for someone else’s route.
What else can you do with someone else’s route?
How to reverse a route?
Click the "edit" button in the bottom-left corner and choose the "Reverse route" option. You’ll need a RouteYou Plus account or higher to use this feature.
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RouteYou will reverse the route for you. The order of POIs and instructions gets flipped. It usually takes half a minute or less, depending on how busy the platform is.
Reversing a route currently does not take one-way streets or traffic rules into account!
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The end result is a new route. The original one still exists: you’ll see a link to it in the description of the new reversed version. Now you can use your new route to print, download, share with friends, edit, and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
We keep the original route as-is. The reversed route is a brand-new route where you're listed as the author. You can fully edit it: give it a new title, update the description, tweak it in the RoutePlanner, etc.
The RouteYou platform automatically creates a clear reference to the original route. The description of your new route starts with a link to the original one. That actually helps the original get discovered faster by other users and search engines. It boosts its SEO ranking too.
It’s possible that the original route used roads or paths with one-way traffic. Since reversing the route doesn’t consider that, the new route might take shortcuts. Reversed routes are calculated using the routing option 'shortest-OSM', so it might find a quicker path.
Yep! But we’ll add a clear reference in the description linking to the original route. (Read more about copyright here.) The reversed route also gets a lower quality score so the original ranks higher in searches and lists. Want your reversed version to score higher? You can submit it as a 'recommended route'.
You can make your route private. Here’s how to do that.
There are two main reasons:
- The system generating the reversed route relies on map data that might not be perfect (like traffic flow or blocked paths). So we don’t automatically give it a high score. (Learn more about route quality.)
- We want the original route to show up higher in search results and lists compared to the reversed one.