Keep a map of every road you've driven (and find the ones you haven't)

Most of us drive the same roads over and over without noticing. A map of every road you have been down shows you how small your patch really is, and where the good roads you have never tried are.

How it works

You record a drive with GPS. The app then lines your recording up with the road network, a step called map-matching, and marks the roads you actually used. Over time those roads add up to a picture: the ones you know, in orange, and the ones you have not, in grey.

Why only real GPS counts

It would be easy to mark a road as done because it was on a plan. It would also make the map useless. In MotoRidez a road only counts when your own recording confirms it, so the map means what it says. The same rule keeps gaps honest: if your GPS dropped out, that stretch is not filled in and counted. How the ridden-roads map works goes into the detail.

What the map is good for

• Seeing the gaps. The grey roads around you are the ones to try next.
• Finding a new road each time. Ask the planner to avoid roads you have done and it will go looking for something you have not driven. See how avoid-visited routing works.
• Remembering. A year of drives is a surprisingly good record of where you have been.

Recording well

A clean recording makes a better map. Start it before you leave, keep the app running, and check how to get a recording without gaps.

It stays yours

A map of where you have been is personal. What you share, and with whom, is up to you. See ride tracking and privacy.