Find the best order for your Google Maps stops

Lineo is a Google Maps walking route optimizer. It takes a multi-stop Google Maps route and rearranges your destinations into a more efficient walking order. Instead of visiting your places in the order they were originally entered, Lineo analyzes the locations and finds a better sequence. Google Maps then provides the walking navigation for the optimized route.

Yes, Lineo is completely free to use. There's no free trial, no paid plan, no account and no credit card.

Google Maps is excellent for navigation, but when you create a multi-stop route, your destinations are generally visited in the order you specify. That order is not necessarily the most efficient walking order. Lineo adds a route-optimization step before navigation. It takes your existing Google Maps route URL, analyzes the destinations, and reorders the stops into a more efficient sequence. Google Maps navigates the route; Lineo optimizes the order of the stops.

Simply paste your Google Maps route URL into Lineo. Lineo extracts the destinations from your route, calculates the walking time between every pair of stops, and finds the fastest order to visit them. It then creates a new Google Maps route with the optimized stop order. Your destinations remain the same; only their order changes.

Finding the best order for many stops is a classic puzzle known as the traveling salesman problem (TSP). Lineo solves it for you: it compares the walking time between all your stops and finds the fastest order to visit them, so you don't waste time walking back and forth.

When you create a multi-stop route in Google Maps, the destinations may be visited in the order in which you added them. That order is not necessarily the shortest or most efficient way to walk between all of your stops. An inefficient sequence can make you walk back and forth across the same streets or neighborhoods. Lineo reorders your destinations to cut out unnecessary walking between stops.

Lineo is designed for multi-stop walking routes. Common use cases include sightseeing tours, food tours, restaurant crawls, museum visits, tourist attractions, shopping trips, neighborhood exploration, and everyday errands.

Lineo works best with 3 to 15 stops, which covers most city walks, food tours and errand runs. Paste a Google Maps link with your stops, and Lineo finds the best order in seconds.

It depends on your route. If your stops were added in a random order, Lineo can make the walk substantially shorter and save you a lot of back-and-forth. The savings depend on how many stops you have, how spread out they are and how good the original order was.

Lineo is specifically designed for walking route optimization. It finds the best order for visiting multiple destinations on foot, based on walking times. Technically, you can also use it for a driving route, but the order is optimized for walking, so results for driving are less accurate. Lineo is not a public-transit planner. After Lineo creates the optimized route, you can open it in Google Maps and use Google Maps walking directions for navigation.

Yes. Lineo is designed to work with Google Maps multi-stop routes. You create your route in Google Maps, copy the route URL, and paste it into Lineo. Lineo analyzes the destinations and creates a new Google Maps route with the stops in the best walking order, ready for turn-by-turn directions.

No. Lineo and Google Maps serve different purposes. Lineo optimizes the order of your destinations, while Google Maps provides the navigation. After Lineo creates the optimized route, you can open it in Google Maps and use Google Maps walking directions as usual.

No. Lineo keeps your destinations and only changes the order you visit them in. Your first stop always stays your starting point, and you can choose whether your last stop stays fixed or gets reordered with the rest. For example, A → B → C → D → E might become A → C → E → D → B. The places themselves don't change.

No. Lineo is a web app, so there's no mobile app to download. It runs right in your browser on any device, from iPhone and Android phones to tablets and computers. Just open lineo.ink, paste your Google Maps link and get a better route.

Lineo is a simple trip planning tool for a day itinerary: sightseeing, food tours, shopping or running errands. Add your places and Lineo finds the order to visit them.

Yes. Lineo is particularly useful for city sightseeing, where a typical day may involve several museums, landmarks, attractions, restaurants, and other destinations. Instead of visiting them in an arbitrary order, Lineo puts the stops into the best walking sequence and cuts out unnecessary walking between locations.

Yes. Lineo can optimize a walking route containing multiple restaurants, cafés, bars, markets, and other food destinations. This makes it useful for food tours and restaurant crawls where you want to visit several places while minimizing unnecessary walking between stops.

Yes. You can use Lineo to optimize a route containing multiple shops or shopping destinations. Instead of manually deciding which store to visit next, Lineo finds the best order based on the locations of your stops.

Yes. Lineo can also be used for local errands, appointments, shopping, or visiting several places around a neighborhood. Add your destinations, and Lineo finds the best order to visit them on foot.

Not always. If your stops are already in a good order, Lineo may change little or nothing. When a better order exists, Lineo finds the optimal order based on walking time, so your Google Maps route gets you to every stop faster.