A new challenger to Strava

I think Ride With GPS is the best route planning GPS websites. It's better than Strava and Garmin connect for planning routes and better than Garmin for analysing a ride but now Ride With GPS has taken on Strava in the segments game. They're even calling them segments!

Segments - a new tool for analysis and competition.

Segments offer a great way to get involved with cycling in your area. You can see who has been riding the same roads, and, you can quickly figure out how you perform on sections of your favorite ride. The concept is simple - create a segment from either an uploaded activity or a route you have drawn using our bike route planner.

Once you have created a segment, we will automatically match the segment to all existing activities and routes in our system. As soon as the matches are made, everyone who has traveled along that segment will be notified of their rank and will be able to view a special page dedicated to the segment.

Finally, whenever an activity is uploaded to our site, we will automatically match and rank it on all segments, and show you the matches when you view the ride. We'll also let others know if you pushed them down the leaderboard.

The page for a particular segment will allow you to interact with each match made on that segment. You can easily view the stats for any match, as well as comment on the segment.