How to create an online map showing a travel itinerary?
How can I create a map to show a travel itinerary using free online tools?
What I am looking for is being able to draw each travel segment over a political map of the world such as Google Maps. So that I can connect cities with arcs showing flight paths when flying, highlight road travel following the route to be taken. Also adding paths for ferry and boat travel would be good.
Note that this is different from creating a travel map where locations are painted or marked (such as on Google My Maps) without any connection between them.
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One free tool that I know of to generate maps of air travel is Great Circle Mapper.
The initial UI is pretty simple but there are a lot of customization options. You can look at the many Featured Maps to get examples.
Offered since ferry travel was specifically noted as secondary.
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Travellerspoint's mapping tool does what you're looking for. It will allow you to map out many trips on a single map. Flights are shown with an arc. Train, car, bus routes will follow the roads. You can also drill down into each of the locations you stopped at to see some information for that location. This is from guide content written by the members.
After creating your map, you will get some stats about your travels and you will also be able to embed that map on other sites. It uses the mapbox-gl mapping engine with a choice of different tile sets.
Full disclosure: I run Travellerspoint. I also think it meets your needs perfectly so is a good answer for this question.
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