Bike Route          Think of it as a spreadsheet for your bicycle

Bike Route is a free bicycle route planning program for Mac OS X. Use it before you ride, to select routes that challenge you or to stay comfortably within your capabilities for distance or total elevation gain. Measure routes after you have ridden them, to keep track of your accomplishments. Publish or exchange route files electronically. Generate route sheets for organized rides. Download Bike Route (1.5 megabytes)

Some of Bike Route's major features are:

• view high-resolution topographic maps at up to 5 zoom levels
• automatically calculate route lengths and elevation changes
• rapidly explore different route alternatives; think of it as a spreadsheet for your bicycle
• find points of interest along your route
• quickly locate road intersections by name
• view and print maps, route sheets, and elevation profiles
• edit maps to add your own roads and points of interest
• exchange route files with other users.

You must have Mac OS X to run Bike Route. It has only been tested with Mac OS X.3.3, though it may also run with earlier versions of OS X.

Bike Route requires about 90 megabytes of disk space for a full installation. The application itself is 2.1 megabytes stripped, with the remaining space occupied by the map files. Most users can get by with a lot less, because how many California users need maps of Ohio? Here is a size breakdown:

The Bike Route application uses lots of memory. Your system should have at least 256 megabytes of RAM. It has run on systems with less, but your computer may freeze or crash if you have lots of maps or run low on swap space.