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A multi stop route planner has one job that map apps refuse to do: decide which stop comes first. Everything else, the map, the pins, the mileage, exists to let you check that decision before you drive it.
What a multi stop planner is for
Map apps solve the road between two points. A multi stop planner solves the sequence of points. That is the entire difference, and it is why both exist.
Daymilo takes a list of addresses, works out the driving order across all of them, and shows you the result as numbered pins you can check at a glance. Then you drive it in whatever navigation app you already use.
How it works
Three ways to add addresses
- One at a time. Type and pick from the suggestions. Fine for four or five stops.
- As a list. Paste a whole column, up to 50 addresses per paste. Numbering, bullet markers, blank lines and exact duplicates are stripped automatically.
- By clicking the map. For places that have no useful address: a gate, a loading dock, a field entrance. The coordinates stay exactly where you clicked.
How many stops it takes
Up to 90 stops in one route, including the start, so 89 intermediate addresses.
For context, the ceilings elsewhere: Waze allows one stop, Google Maps nine plus your start, Apple Maps up to fourteen along a route, and MapQuest's web planner 26. Daymilo and MapQuest are the two on that list that compute the order rather than driving it as typed.
What you see after it computes
- The stops renumbered in driving order, list and map in sync.
- Total distance and total time for the whole route.
- Distance per leg, so an unexpectedly long hop between two stops is visible.
- Stops flagged as outliers, in amber, if one sits far from the body of the route.
Per leg times are deliberately not shown. The routing service returns one total duration, and splitting it across legs in proportion to distance would be inventing numbers.
Fixing the parts that should not move
Optimization is only useful if it respects reality. The start is always fixed. The finish can be fixed, or left empty so the route closes back to the start.
If a stop has to happen at a particular time, put it where it belongs and drag it back after computing. The order is a suggestion you can overrule, not a result you have to accept.
Checking the plan before you drive
Two checks take ten seconds each and catch nearly everything that goes wrong:
Look at the pins. A good route walks around the city. If the numbered pins jump back and forth across the map, either something is pinned in the wrong place or a stop is in a fixed position for a reason you forgot.
Look at the outliers. A geocoder almost never says "not found". Given a missing city or a typo it returns a confident pin somewhere plausible, and the only visible symptom is a stop far from the rest.
On a phone
The whole planner works on a small screen. The list sits above the map so the page scrolls naturally, drag handles are large enough to use with a thumb, and a full screen button is there when you want the map to fill the display.
One deliberate rule: one finger scrolls the page, two fingers move the map. Without it a large map in the middle of a page becomes impossible to scroll past.
What it is not
Not a fleet system. There are no accounts, no dispatch board, no driver tracking, no proof of delivery, no customer notifications. It is one person planning one day, and everything outside that is left to tools built for it.
FAQ
What is a multi stop route planner?
A tool that decides the order to visit a set of addresses in. Map apps route between points you have already sequenced; a planner does the sequencing.
How many stops can it handle?
Up to 90 including the start. Lists are pasted 50 addresses at a time.
Does it optimize the order automatically?
It computes the order when you press the button. Nothing is reordered behind your back, and you can drag stops afterwards.
Can I set where the route ends?
Yes. Set a finish address, or leave it empty and the route returns to your start as a loop.
Does it use live traffic?
No. The order is computed from road distances. Traffic is handled by the navigation app you drive with, and it rarely changes which stop should be next.
Can I add a place that has no address?
Yes, by clicking it on the map. Those coordinates are kept exactly as you placed them rather than being looked up again.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no signup, no login and nothing to install.