The Road Trip Planner
Tell it where you are going and how fast. The drive redraws in Google Maps as you change it.
This one started as a favor. A friend's move from Perry, New York to Los Angeles needed a plan, and planning that drive properly is a real piece of work: where each night should land, which days will run long, and where to quit early if a day goes badly. I built the plan for that move, then built the planner so anyone could do the same. It opens loaded with that trip.
It does not plan for the fewest miles. It plans for what the evenings are worth: a day that ends in a city with somewhere to eat beats a day that ends at an exit ramp motel 40 minutes short of one, even when the shorter day looks better on paper. Night driving counts against a day, and if a day is likely to end after dark, the plan writes in a town where you can stop early. Pick a pace and it works out how many days the drive takes and the most you drive in any one of them. Add a stop like the Grand Canyon and the route bends to it.
Everything updates as you change it, the route in Google Maps beside the plan included, and one click opens the drive on your phone. It knows the world's 50 biggest cities as well as the US, and when a drive would need a boat or a closed border, it says so and offers the parts you can drive.
Open in Google Maps The plan updates as you type.
Day by day
Every leg, the nights, the gas stops, the border crossings and the stops you asked for.
The written plan
The same trip as text, to paste into a message.
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The City Guide
Tell it where you are going and what you want out of it. It builds the map.
My family has always travelled a lot, and every new city presents the same ordeal: working out which places actually fit what you like. This is what I built for that. Tell it where you are going and what you are looking for, and it hands you a map to drop straight into your Google Maps, drawn from what people who genuinely know the city agree on rather than from whatever ranks highest.
The street map could not load here (this preview blocks outside maps). Open the page in a normal browser tab and it fills in. Every place below still opens in Google Maps.
Tick a topic below and the map fills in.
Drag it, zoom it, tap any pin. Every place opens straight into Google Maps or Apple Maps, with its hours, photos and a Save button, and Take me there starts the directions. Nothing to sign in to.
Your walks
The places you picked, chained into short walks. Tap one and Google Maps opens with every stop loaded and the route drawn. Pick where you are staying, or tap Near me, and they start from there.
Download for Google My Maps KML, for Google Earth and Organic Maps
Want it inside Google Maps itself? Download the file, open Google My Maps on a computer, import it, then Style, Group places by, Category. It appears in the Google Maps app under You, then Maps.
Everything then sorts nearest first, so you can see what is a walk and what is a trip across town. Straight line, not walking distance.
What do you want out of it
Everything is on the map to start. Untick a topic to drop it, or open one to narrow it down. The questions are about the trip: what you want to eat, what you will book ahead for, and how sure a thing needs to be before it earns an evening.
See the places
The number on each place is how many independent sources named it. It replaces a star rating, which mostly counts how many people walked past. Nothing is here on fewer than 4, no tourist traps, and the sources are the city's own critics and food press rather than review aggregates. Data last checked 2026-09.
The Pickup Plan
Everyone lands at a different time and there are 2 cars to go round. It works out who drives whom and when, and writes each person their pickup text.
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The Weather Odds
Name a place and the weather you want. It counts 20 years of real days there and tells you which weeks give you the best odds of getting it.
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