http://www.bikely.com/
Enter Downers Grove, IL in the "Find a route near" box and click "Search". You will get hundreds of routes; the first ten or so are Peter's routes from McCollum or Clyde Estates. Click on his ID (Peter-DG) in the contributor column to see all of his routes.

http://favoriterun.com/
Favorite Route
- Map your route using this site. Free membership. View an example.
- Find a bicycle route in your area. (Hint: EBC members tend to name their routes with "cycle" or "bike" in the title.)

http://maps.google.com/
Google Maps
- A map and satellite photo feature which should be very useful for ride planning. It toggles seamlessly between map view and satellite view. The views are scrollable and draggable.
- Tip from EBC member Peter T.:
For scoping out an all-road route, I have fond the "directions" feature on maps.google.com very handy. Enter the ends of your route in the "from" and "to" fields, get the driving route, and then "drag and drop" points on the route to get the route you actually intend to take.

http://terraserver-usa.com/
Microsoft's TerraServer-USA: Satelite photos.
- Uses the same source photos as Google. Terraserver lets you zoom in close. It also has a simple download mode that lets you get the whole photo into your computer; e.g., to assemble larger layouts.

http://ByCycle.org/
Has a bicycle trip planner for Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- uses data from local bike route networks to generate maps and directions.

www.routeslip.com/
- uses the Google mapping engine which provides a view of your route as a graphic map, aerial photograph or a hybrid. It allows you to generate an elevation profile and calculates the net climbing. Automatically generates a cue sheet.

www.mapmyride.com/
This tool has the ability to follow roads - that is, you click on key intersections and it traces the road route between the selected intersections automatically. It will also generate a cue sheet, with turns, street names and distances; and an elevation profile.

http://bicycling.trimbleoutdoors.com
Bicycling Magazine's route mapping site, which it claims is the home of the largest downloadable GPS-ride-map database on the web.

www.bikemap.net
has a good method for showing where routes are located. Most of their routes are in Europe, but there are a few in the US.

www.dot.state.il.us/bikemap/state3.html
The IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation) bicycling section will allow you to view and download PDF files of county roads tagged with useful information for cyclists.

www.iowadot.gov/iowabikes/#Transportation
The state of Iowa has a great cycling map that covers the entire state. They will even send you free copies of these maps.

http://www.dot.state.wi.us/travel/bike-foot/bikemaps.htm
The state of Wisconsin has a set of eight cycling maps offered for sale, plus downloadable PDF maps for each county.