r/cyclingbelgium

Hello all,

I'm looking for some feedback on my free to use climb finding & routemaking app aimed at cyclists in Flanders.

I mostly ride in Flanders and kept getting frustrated when creating routes. I live in the 'flat' part of Flanders so every hill counts. Strava doesn't surface hills, but has a good routeplanner. Sites like climbfinder are great but suffer from bloat and are pay-to-use.

So I started building something myself. Flemish Roads lays every road from OpenStreetMap over the public LiDAR elevation map of Flanders, (Northern) France and Wallonia and finds every stretch that actually goes uphill. That's about 31,000 climbs right now, plus the cobbled sectors, and it runs into a bit of Wallonia and northern France.

Known climbs like the Koppenberg and the Paterberg are on it, but I also like the nameless 400 m stretches at 7% or even the smaller bumps in the polders when you're desperate for some uphill.

Each climb has a profile, the steepest 100 m, the surface and a difficulty from 1 to 10. You can also draw a route or have it suggest a loop, and export it as a GPX.

It's currently free, no ads, and you don't need an account.

What I mainly want is people who actually ride these roads telling me where it's wrong. Is the difficulty of your local climb right? Is one missing? Is there a bridge or a dike on there that isn't a climb at all? And if something just works awkwardly, say that too. Any type of feedback really.

https://www.flemishroads.com/

Feel free to leave any feedback at feedback@flemishroads.com or DM, it's much appreciated.