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The route of several cycling races precisely drawn in Google Maps with a possibility to download and view it in Google Earth (including the possibility to do a virtual fly-over of the route)!

Added: saturday 24 August 2019 at 22:56:00
The Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
This Tuesday the 33rd Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine will start in Niort. 5 stages in 4 days (of which one time trial on Thursday afternoon, after a short stage in line in the morning) for a total of about 660 kilometers will be waiting for the riders on the routes of the former Poitou-Charentes region!

Let's discover in detail the routes they'll take in this article, with the detailed maps developed by velowire.com for the race organisor and for this article :).
The Tour Poitou-Charentes 2019 en Nouvelle-Aquitaine race route on Open Street Maps
1/ Tuesday 27 August 2019 - Niort > Rochefort-sur-Mer - 188.9 km
The first stage of this "TPC" will start at the Acclameur, concert and conference hall, in Niort. After the start the riders will first go off north until Château-Bourdin before going back down south turning around Niort on the west s ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour Poitou-Charentes| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: saturday 29 June 2019 at 0:16:00
The Tour de France 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
Now we're getting closer to the start of the Tour de France 2019, as usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all the tiny details of the race route of the 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, with all the routes drawn on interactive maps with Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

With the information available in this publication, you'll get to know all the routes, the visited cities and villages and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit of the race if you're among one of the 12 million people watching the race on the side of the road, or simply better understand the race if you're not one of these happy "few"!
Some preliminary information ...
Let's start with some elements you should take into account before you discover in detail all the stages of the ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: thursday 06 June 2019 at 1:07:00
The Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
With the Tour of Italy behind us, it is now time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 start from the Cantal department and more precisely from the city Aurillac. This will be the 71th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation race for the Tour de France (the organisor of the race now by the way even uses the subtitle "on the way to the Tour de France by the way; others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which will start on 15 June) and it is made up of 8 stages of which one will be an individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1202.1 kilometers.

Let's now look in detail the different stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 with the race routes ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: friday 10 May 2019 at 22:26:00
The Tour of Italy 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
Tomorrow, on Saturday 11 May 2019, the Giro d'Italia 2019 will start in Bologna with an individual time trial. The 102th edition of the Tour of Italy, which celebrates in 2019 its 110th anniversary, is made up of 21 stages of which three will be individual time trials (the 1st, 9th and 21st stage) for a total distance of 3,576.8 kilometers. 7 stages will have a mountain top finish while 5 stages will take place in the higher mountains and 7 in the medium mountains.

Let's now look in detail all stages of this Tour of Italy 2019 with the maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.
The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps
1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 km
The first stage of this Tour of Italy 2019 is a timed races in the streets of the city ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Giro d Italia| Giro d'Italia 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth

Added: saturday 20 April 2019 at 18:43:00
The Amstel Gold Race 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth and the time- and route schedule
This Sunday, the only Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place between Maastricht and ... the Rijksweg in Vilt. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer on top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg but at the same location as where the finish of the 2012 World Championships races was.

The Amstel Gold Race 2019 - which will be the 54th edition - race route is a bit different from last year, especially for the final lap, but the race still has all its climbs, 35 to be precise, which allows it to be a UCI WorldTour race (in 2011 it went up from 31 to 32 and in 2012 back down to 31, before going up to 34 in 2013 and now thus 35 since 2017). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google M ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Classics| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth

Added: tuesday 09 April 2019 at 23:59:00
Paris-Roubaix 2019: its race route, its cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North
The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2019, will take this Sunday. For the 117th edition of the race, the organisor chose to slightly modify last year's race route: the start is a bit different, but this time also the 6 first cobble stones sections, between Troisvilles and Verchain-Maugré. The number of sections however remain the same (29) and there will still be a total distance of 54.5 kilometers of cobbles. The total distance of the race also remains the same, 257 kilometers.

In the Hell of the North a small problem can however come disturb a rider's race, while others can be lucky. Nothing's thus defined beforehand and it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that we'll see who manges to win the race ... which doesn't have a big favourite this year!
The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2019
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this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Roubaix| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth| Classics
Added: saturday 09 March 2019 at 0:03:00
The Paris-Nice 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules
The 77th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (of which 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,207.5 km visiting a total of 11 departments (the Gard department is the one which benefits of the shortest visit of only a few kilometers during the time trial on Thursday) and containing no less than 24 climbs, including the Col de Turini on the queen stage on Saturday.

In this article, you'll find the usual presentation of the Paris-Nice 2019 race route with maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

Let's now have a detailed look on the 8 stages of this Paris-Nice:
1/ Sunday 10 March 2019 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye > Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 138.5 km
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this article appears in the following categories: Paris-Nice| Paris-Nice 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: tuesday 01 January 2019 at 17:29:00
The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2019 on Open Street Maps/Google Earth
As usual, we'll have to wait until June before we get to know all the details about the race route of the different stages of the Tour de France 2019. Well, that is .. not for all of them, because the race route of the two stages which make up the Grand Départ of the 106th Tour, in Brussels in Belgium, is already known now!

You might have beebn waiting for it since the official announcement of the Tour de France 2019 stages, the maps with the detailed race route of the first Tour de France 2019 stages are finally available here!
The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2019| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: monday 02 July 2018 at 23:50:00
The Tour de France 2018 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth, time- and route schedules and stage profiles
As usual, velowire.com offers you the detail of the race route of the 105th edition of the "Grande Boucle", with all the routes on Google Maps/Google Earth, at a little bit less than one week of the start of the Tour de France 2018.

With all the information you find in this article you'll know all small details, all cities and villages which will be visited by this Tour and it'll thus allow you to prepare your visit on the roads of the Tour if you get the chance to be part of the 12 millions of spectators on the side of the road, or simply get a better understanding of the race if you're not there!
A little bit of information ...
Let's first precise some information before we get to the details of all Tour de France 2018 stages:
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2018| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: sunday 03 June 2018 at 1:51:00
The Critérium du Dauphiné 2018 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, the time- and route schedules, profiles and maps
This Sunday 3 June, the 70th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné starts in Valence. 153 riders will get to start the race with a solo effort for the prologue of the 2018 edition of the race and 7 other stages will be awaiting them afterwards. Over a total of 958.6 kilometers, they'll see that especially the second half of the week will be decisive in this race, with important mountain parts in the stages.

In this article you'll find the maps, profiles and time- and route schedule of each of these stages, the maps of course being on Google Maps/Google Earth as you're used to find on velowire.com!
THe Critérium du Dauphiné 2018's race route on Google Maps
Let's now have a look at the different stages one by one:
P/ Sunday 3 June 2018 - Valence > Valence - 6.6 km
It'll all start w ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
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