Our motorcycle map is one-of-a-kind and packed with information for you!
- Winding roads are highlighted with a red border.
- Off-road segments are marked with a light brown background.
- Highways/Motorways are displayed in light red.
- Major roads are shown in orange.
- Country roads are yellow.
- Other roads are marked in white.
- Your completed routes are displayed in blue (more details in this article).
Road closures & restrictions
⚠️ Restricted roads are shown as an orange dashed line (more here).
⛔ Closed roads are shown as a red dashed line (more here).
Good to know:
With the search function, you can find interesting places on the map. In the app, POIs are shown directly below the search bar on the map, and on the web they appear to the right of the search bar. In both cases, you can scroll sideways to discover motorcycle parking, ice cream shops, biker meetups, restaurants, mountain passes, twisty highlights, fuel stations, biker hotels, campgrounds, and sights in your area.
Comments
The colours you use for the different types of roads aren’t well chosen, as the picture they give on the map is unintuitive and takes away focus from the road in front of us.
Map colours are much more than just preference.
It would make sense to colour road types by interesting-ness. Think of a heat map.
E.g.: If twisties are red, then long, straight (imo boring) freeways/motorways/autobahn should be in a colour that is far away from them, like blue, and intermittent stages of boringness closer to blue, more interesting closer to red.
An image of a thermal camera is quickly understood, because they use this principle. One using the underlying idea of your colours would not be.
A map thus coloured is intuitive to understand and much(!) more usable than the current colour scheme.
Hey @richard.wonka - first off, please accept our apologies for the very delayed reply. We've been working through our backlog and are committed to keeping up-to-date on these comments in the future.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback regarding the colour scheme on our maps. Your idea of using a heat map-style colouring to represent the "interesting-ness" of roads is quite interesting and certainly something worth considering. I'll be sure to pass this suggestion on to our development team for review.
We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Your input helps us continue to improve calimoto for everyone.
What if there was a layer that took the colours out of the planned route and only had the planned route line, maybe show main roads and highways in a color?
Hi @Graeme Pawson
Thank you for sharing your idea about having a layer that removes colors from the planned route, leaving just the route line and perhaps highlighting main roads and highways. We’d love to learn more about your vision and see how we can assist further.
Could you please email us at support@calimoto.com with some details? This will help our team understand your suggestion better and work towards a solution that meets your needs.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Best regards,
I do have an email string going, but I'm just a user with ideas, I have no idea how to implement it.
Hey @Graeme Pawson – no worries at all—that’s our job, not yours! 😊 We were just curious if you had any more details to share about your idea. We’ve already added your feedback to our list for the developers to take a look at—no guarantees, but it’s definitely on their radar.
If you ever want to share more thoughts or need any tips, feel free to reach out to us directly. We’re always happy to hear from passionate riders like you.
Safe riding and happy exploring! 🏍️
So far the best app for motorcycles. Thank you! One of the best parts being the ease of planning on an iPad or computer and the route automatically being available on iPhone for travel. So easy! Here’s my question. Is there a way to define your legend? Such as paved road, gravel road, dirt road? I see ‘country road’, ‘other road’, etc. but that does not tell me the surface I will be riding on. Thanks so much.
Hi @Jesse Walls – First off – thank you for the kind words, and apologies for the late reply! We clearly need to follow our own internal legend a bit better when navigating to comment sections like this one. 😉
To your question: Unfortunately, it’s not currently possible to display or customize the map legend by surface type. In general, calimoto automatically excludes roads that are marked in OpenStreetMap (OSM) as unsuitable for motorcycles – which typically includes gravel and dirt roads.
That said, not all roads are consistently or correctly classified in OSM just yet. We're aware of this and are keeping an eye on areas where this might affect route quality.
Thanks again for your support – and ride safe!
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