Car Route Planner Plugin
Route planner for car travelers. Calculator of various values for route, such as length, driving time, fuel amount and cost, customized cost.
The facts
- Rating
- 3★ from 10
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 5 Feb 2024
- Added
- Apr 2018
- Requires WP
- 4.2
- Tested up to
- WP 6.4.10
- Requires PHP
- 5.3
- Downloads
- 13,112
Our analysis
AI-assistedThe Car Route Planner Plugin for WordPress allows users to calculate various metrics for car routes globally, including route length, driving time, fuel consumption, and cost. It is designed for motorists, logistics companies, and anyone needing to plan routes for travel or delivery services. The plugin can be adapted for different scenarios and offers a variety of settings to customise its functionality.
This plugin operates in two modes: a minimal mode that displays results on the developer's website and an advanced mode that embeds results within your site using an iframe. It connects to the web service www.drivebestway.com, utilising open-source routing data instead of Google Maps.
Best for: This plugin suits travel and logistics companies, as well as individuals planning road trips.
What it does well
- ✓Calculates route length, driving time, fuel amount, and cost
- ✓Supports multiple currencies and measurement systems
- ✓Customisable design and mobile-friendly
- ✓Offers autocomplete and geocoding features
- ✓Available in 11 languages
Where it falls short
- •Limited information on specific use cases beyond those mentioned
- •No details on support or documentation
Verdict
The Car Route Planner Plugin provides useful routing features for a variety of users, though it may lack comprehensive support information.
From the developer
iGuk's own description of Car Route Planner Plugin, lightly tidied.
The route planner can calculate different values for car routes around the world, such as route length, driving time, fuel amount and cost.
Main use cases:
- Routing for motorists (recreation or business trips on own or rented car)
- Calculation of estimated cost of your service depending on route length (transport logistics, shipping, moving companies, truck freight, delivery, intercity taxi, transfer, and etc.)
- Routing from an arbitrary point to your tourist site (recreation center, camping, hotel) with a simple web form.
Other use cases are also possible. The plugin has many settings and can be adapted to other scenarios.
Features
- shortcodes
- customizable design
- automatic adjustment of font size and font family
- mobile friendly
- worldwide routing (can be optionally limited by countries)
- switched on/off blocks in form and in results
- price calculation by your own formula
- async load via HTTPS, HTTP/2 support
- safe degradation if the routing server is not available
- autocomplete for input fields
- start/finish location can be pointed on the map
- geocoder with mistyping correction
- editing the route by drag and drop over map
- route scheme (cities with road types and driving time between them)
- separated speed limits for highway and other roads
- 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Italian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish
- 3 measure systems: metric, American, British imperial
- multiple currencies: ARS, AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CLP, CNY, COP, CZK, DOP, EUR, GBP, INR, IRR, MXN, MYR, NGN, PEN, PHP, PLN, RUB, SEK, TRY, USD, VEF, ZAR
Modes
The plugin has two modes. These modes are switched on the plugin settings page.
By default, the plugin works in minimal mode:
- the results of route calculation are displayed on the plugin developers website.
- there are no additional settings.
Advanced mode:
- the results of route calculation are displayed inside iframe on your website.
- after iframe, the hyperlink to the plugin developer’s site is displayed.
- additional settings are available.
How it Works
Technically speaking, the plugin is a bridge to web service www.drivebestway.com, which uses OSM data for routing.
Unlike other similar plugins, Google Maps is not used here. The routing is performed with open source routers, such as OSRM and Graphhopper.
See a full list of credits.
Tagged as
industry
Logistics & Transport
audience
Developers
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