Route planning often comes before navigation. Use Route Planner to prepare and review the route you intend to follow, then start navigation directly from the planner. You do not need to save the route first.

The planner builds a route from waypoints you place on the map. Direct mode connects them with straight lines. With PRO and a network connection, walking, cycling, and car modes can calculate a route along trails and roads.

Before you add the first waypoint, the planner shows a short introduction. Below it, the Read more link opens this guide. The routing mode selector and waypoint list appear as soon as you add a point. Choose the routing mode before adding the next point. The selected mode applies only to that next segment, so changing it does not recalculate segments you already added.

Create a routeCreate a route

  1. Open Route Planner from the bottom toolbar.
  2. Tap the map or the centre crosshair to add the first waypoint.
  3. Choose a routing mode: Direct , Walking , Cycling , or Car . Start with Direct if you want complete manual control or are preparing for offline use. Continue tapping the map to extend the route.
  4. Drag a waypoint to refine its position. Touch and hold an existing route segment to insert a waypoint on that segment.
  5. Use the waypoint list to focus or delete a point. Focusing places the waypoint under the crosshair in the visible map area. Each row shows the distance from the previous waypoint and the total distance from the start when those values are available.
  6. Use Undo and Redo when you need to reverse an edit.
  7. When the route is ready, open the Actions menu and choose Navigate . Review the route on the Ready to go? screen, then select GO. You do not need to save the route first.
  8. To keep the route for another trip, open Actions and choose Save to bookmarks . Enter a route name, choose a folder under Bookmarks, and decide whether it should remain visible on the map.

The planner shows the route distance and, with at least three waypoints, the enclosed area. Your current unsaved planner draft is retained when the planner or app is closed. Use Clear route from the Actions menu when you want to remove every waypoint from that draft.

Plan before you navigatePlan before you navigate

Route Planner lets you review the whole route before you start navigating. Check the direction, waypoints, and distance, and compare the route with the map and current conditions while it is still easy to adjust. Use Reverse direction in the Actions menu if the route runs the wrong way.

Selecting Navigate opens a preview without changing the route. The preview groups your location, destination, and Edit route action together. Its final card shows the route distance beside GO. A planned route already contains the routing mode for each segment, so this preview does not show a separate travel-mode selector.

You can review the route again or select Edit route to make changes. When everything looks right, select GO. Navigation then shows your progress along the route and warns when you leave it. It does not provide turn-by-turn instructions.

Understand routing modesUnderstand routing modes

DirectDirect

Direct mode draws a straight line between consecutive waypoints. It does not check paths, roads, access restrictions, terrain, or hazards. Direct routing remains available without PRO and does not require the online routing service.

Walking, cycling, and carWalking, cycling, and car

These modes are available with Lokimaps PRO and a network connection. They use an online service to calculate geometry between waypoints. A calculated route is a planning aid, so compare it with current maps, signs, closures, conditions, and local rules.

While the service calculates a segment, a spinner replaces the selected routing-mode icon. This keeps the waypoint list in place while the calculation finishes.

Selecting a routing mode above the waypoint list applies it to the next segment you add. To change a segment that already exists, use its destination waypoint's actions. Editing an existing segment's routing mode requires PRO, including when the route was created earlier.

Edit a Route Planner routeEdit a Route Planner route

Routes originally saved from Route Planner keep the planning information needed for later editing. Imported GPX routes and older saved routes may not have it.

  1. Open Bookmarks from the bottom toolbar.
  2. Select a route originally saved from Route Planner.
  3. Choose Edit in Route Planner when that action is available.
  4. Add, move, or remove waypoints as needed.
  5. Select Save to update the route, or Save as new route to keep the original.

With iCloud bookmark sync, another device can update a saved route while you are editing it. If both devices change its path, saving keeps your draft as a separate item with “conflict copy” in its name and leaves the other device’s version in the original route. If you have not changed your draft, saving keeps the latest synced route.

After editing, you can use Navigate from Actions to follow the updated route, whether or not you save the changes first.