Routing designed for walking
Hiking and Discovery use a pedestrian routing profile to prepare your route.
Hiking and exploring on foot
Make time to walk. And time to stop.
A hike needs a plan that considers elevation and your pace. A discovery walk also needs time for the places along the way. Vistavel separates these parts to help you shape your outing.
Your pace in the estimate
Choose a slow, medium or brisk pace and adjust your breaks and personal factor.
Time for the places you visit
Your outing budget separates walking, breaks and planned time at the selected places.
An estimate that considers elevation
The estimate combines the time associated with distance and the time associated with ascent and descent. It uses the larger of those two components, then adds half of the other. Breaks are added separately so you can see how the total is made up.
Build a walk with room to explore
Choose Discovery to start on foot at a slow pace. Adjust your total time budget and the time spent at each place. The final estimate uses the places actually included, leaving room for visits in your plan.
- Create a loop or a route between two points.
- See walking, breaks, visits and total time separately.
- Check visiting hours with the places themselves.
Read effort and terrain separately
The Vistavel rating distinguishes calculated effort based on distance and elevation, entered technical difficulty and entered risk. Missing information remains unknown: an undescribed route is not given an easy overall colour.
Prepare your walk
Choose Hiking or Discovery
Select the activity and your starting point in the map’s planning form.
Set your rhythm
Choose your pace, breaks and, for Discovery, the time to spend on visits.
Review before setting off
Check the route, known elevation, estimated time and available terrain information.
Before you set off
Is the displayed time a guaranteed arrival time?
No. It is an estimate based on the route, available elevation data and your settings. Terrain, weather and your actual pace can change it. If elevation is missing, the result indicates a minimum time and an incomplete rating.
Does Discovery account for opening hours?
You can allow time for visits. The planner does not guarantee that places will be open when you arrive; check their opening hours before setting off.
Can I use a walking profile with a GPX track?
Yes. An imported track keeps its geometry. Changing your pace and breaks updates the estimates without redrawing that route.
Choose a start. Leave time for the journey.
Open the map and select Hiking or Discovery in the form.