Tukuk-OS🗺️ Maps & Navigation
Free routes worldwide · driving, cycling & walking · turn-by-turn
Maps & Navigation plots a real route between any two places on Earth and walks you through it turn by turn. Type two place names — a city, an address, a landmark — or click the map, pick driving, cycling or walking, and press Go. One click in the view panel flips the whole map between the open street map, high-resolution satellite imagery, NASA's daily true-color satellite pass — imagery composited from satellites that flew over today — and the night-lights band that shows where people actually live after dark. The route is computed by OSRM on OpenStreetMap data, the same open engines that power community maps worldwide, proxied through our own server and cached — so nothing is sent about you, and the page stays fast even when the public routers are busy.
How the route is built
Your place names are resolved by Nominatim (OpenStreetMap’s own search) and the road path by OSRM, one of the fastest open-source routing engines in existence — it answers in milliseconds across entire countries. Both run against the worldwide OpenStreetMap map, drawn and maintained by millions of volunteers, which is why remote villages and footpaths appear just like motorways. Our server caches every answer briefly, so repeated lookups never touch the public services.
What it is not
This is a route planner, not a live navigation co-pilot: there are no voice prompts, no speed cameras on the route and the times assume free-flowing roads. The layer box in the corner does carry a real Live traffic view (measured road flow, green–amber–red, refreshed every couple of minutes) so you can read the road before you commit to a route, and Tukuk Traffic adds the community side — crashes, checkpoints, closures and hazards that a speed reading cannot explain. Distances and times assume free-flowing conditions; road works, closures and local rules always win. Some pairs genuinely have no road between them (islands, or Borneo and the Peninsula without a ferry) — the router will say so honestly rather than invent a path.