About bestdrivingroads.com

bestdrivingroads.com is a guide to 803 of the world’s great driving roads, and Routes is its iPhone app for driving them. I’m Simon Keane, a product designer, and I make both.

Before this I designed banking apps at Monzo and Starling, and worked on AI products at Lovable. You can see the rest of my work at keane.studio.

How the roads are mapped

• Traced from OpenStreetMap. Each road’s line comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).
• Measured from that line. Length, corners, hairpins, gradients and the elevation profile are worked out from the line and terrain data, so the numbers on a road page are measured, not quoted.
• Sourced. Road pages link the sources behind what they say, at the bottom of the page.
• Versioned. The catalogue ships in numbered versions, and corrections go into the next one.

Today that adds up to 803 roads across 85 countries, 19 multi-day Grand Tours and 80 themed collections, with the same catalogue powering this site and the app.

The app

Routes for iPhone is the same catalogue built for the road: offline roadbooks, live weather, a 7-day best-days-to-drive forecast and 3D fly-bys of every route. Get it on the App Store.

Say hello

Found a mistake, or a road that deserves a place? Email me at simon@keane.studio. I read everything.

The site is on Instagram too, at @thebestdrivingroads.