User en Route Planning

Route Planning

Find the right refuel stop for a planned trip — not just "cheapest near me", but "cheapest on the way".

Start a route search

Tap the central Search button and switch the source to Route in the Criteria sheet. Enter:

• Start — your current GPS location, or type a start city/postal code
• Destination — city, postal code, or coordinates
• Fuel type — the fuel you're looking for
• Segment length — how far apart candidate stations should be (50 to 1000 km)
• Search strategy — see below

The button stays greyed-out until both the destination and a fuel type are filled in; a second tap then runs the search. The app queries the open-data routing service (OSRM) to compute a polyline, then samples candidate stations near the polyline and fetches prices for them.

Cross-border routes

When a route crosses a national border, the app queries every country the corridor passes through — using each country's own official open-data provider and the fuel grade from that country's profile. The result header credits all contributing sources, for example:

España — Geoportal Gasolineras (MITECO) · France — Prix Carburants (data.economie.gouv.fr)

Because each country's provider tracks different fuel grades, a cross-border result may show E85 stations for the French leg and Gasolina 95/E5 for the Spanish leg — they're priced correctly for each country, not averaged. A station that appears as -- on one side of the border means the provider for that country doesn't report that grade; the station on the other side is fine because its provider does.

To get results for both countries in a cross-border route, you need a profile for each country with the correct preferred fuel. See Finding Stations — One profile per country for setup.

Partial results stream in

A route can cross several countries, and one slow country API shouldn't make you wait for the rest. The route search now streams partial results — as each country answers, its stations appear in the list and a small banner shows which sources are still pending. You can tap a cheap result the moment it arrives without waiting for the slowest country to finish.

The strategies

🏆 Best stops (default)

Surfaces the 3–5 cheapest stations along the route as ranked chips at the top of the result list. Detours are kept small so the chips are realistically reachable. This is what most drivers want: a short shortlist, ordered by price, ready to tap.

🎯 Cheapest

Picks the single lowest-price station on the entire route.

Best for: long trips where you only refuel once and want maximum savings.

⚖️ Balanced

Scores each candidate by a mix of price and proximity to the polyline. A station 5 km off-route but 10 c/L cheaper may win; a station 50 km off-route has to be much cheaper to win.

Best for: day-to-day trips where a small detour is acceptable.

📏 Uniform

Divides the route into equal segments and suggests one stop per segment.

Best for: long-distance cross-border drives where you know you'll refuel multiple times.

Results

The result list shows:

• Distance from start — how far along the route each station sits
• Detour — how many extra km you add vs. the straight route
• Price
• Saving vs. average — compared to the average on the route
• Swipe right — open the station in your navigation app

Switch to All stations if you want to see every station along the route, not just the best stops. The map shows the polyline and all pins.

Tips

• Set Avoid highways in your profile if you want the router to prefer secondary roads.
• For very long routes (>500 km), give the search a few extra seconds — it samples many stations per country.
• If the start is "auto GPS" and you go offline, the route search falls back to the last fixed coordinates.
• A route crossing 3+ countries will populate progressively — the partial-results banner tells you which APIs are still answering.

Saved itineraries

Tap Save route on the results screen to keep the route for later. Saved itineraries appear at the top of the Route search form; tap to re-run the search with fresh prices.

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