Terms of use

Never operate RoutePOV while driving. Look at a route before you set off, or have a passenger operate it. The person driving is responsible for the vehicle at all times, and a supervising driver is responsible for the learner they are supervising.

RoutePOV is a teaching aid. It is not a navigation system, not a driving instructor, and not a substitute for looking at the road. It does not know about roadworks, temporary restrictions, closures, weather, traffic or anything else happening in front of you. Where what you see on the road differs from what the app shows, the road wins, every time.

Using a hand-held mobile phone or similar device while driving is a criminal offence under regulation 110 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986. Nothing in this service changes that, and nothing in these terms should be read as encouraging it.

Routes on RoutePOV are created by individual driving instructors from their own knowledge of local roads. They are practice routes.

They are not official DVSA driving test routes, and RoutePOV makes no claim to know what route any test will take.

The DVSA stopped publishing test routes in 2010 precisely so that candidates would learn to drive rather than learn a route, and it continues to withhold them. Driving a practice route is not a substitute for being ready to drive safely on roads you have never seen, which is what the test assesses. We make no promise about your chances of passing.

There are two kinds of account. An instructor account creates and shares routes, and is for approved driving instructors and driving schools. A learner account only opens routes that instructors have listed publicly. Either way, keep your sign-in email secure: anyone with access to that inbox can sign in as you. Tell us promptly if you think someone else has access to your account.

You are responsible for the content of the routes you create, including hazard notes. Do not put anything in a route that identifies a pupil or says anything about them, because published routes can be opened by anyone holding the link.

Publishing a route creates a link that works without an account. That link is unguessable but it is not a secret: anyone it is forwarded to can open the route. Treat it as public. Unpublishing or deleting a route stops the link working.

A private route may also carry an access code, which we generate. It raises the cost of a forwarded link being used by someone you did not intend, and it is not a security control: it is short, it is sent in the same message as the link more often than not, and we store it in a form we can show back to you. Do not use it to protect anything that matters, and never reuse a password of your own as one. Generating a new code immediately stops the old one working for everybody.

Marking a route publicis different in kind from publishing it. A public route is listed in our public directory, can be found by anyone, and can be indexed by search engines and read by AI crawlers. Once a page has been indexed or copied we cannot pull it back out of somebody else's index, so treat making a route public as permanent even though you can switch it back to private at any time. Routes are private by default and stay that way unless you change it.

If you are supervising a learner, the law sets conditions you must meet. You must be at least 21, hold a full licence for that category of vehicle, and have held it for at least three years. Learners may not drive on motorways with anyone other than an approved driving instructor in a dual-control car. You must not use a mobile phone while supervising, and the vehicle must be properly insured for a learner to drive it.

Driving without correct supervision can mean a fine of up to £1,000 and penalty points. RoutePOV does not and cannot check any of this. You are responsible for meeting these conditions, not us.

You agree not to:

• use the service in a way that breaks the law or endangers anyone;
• scrape, bulk-download or resell routes, or try to get round the request limits on our map and routing endpoints;
• upload content you do not have the right to share;
• present routes from this service as official test routes, whether to pupils or in advertising.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms. Where it is practical to do so we will tell you why first.

The routes you create remain yours. By publishing one you give us the licence we need to store it and show it to anyone opening its share link, which is what publishing means. Marking it public extends that licence to listing it in our public directory and letting search engines index it. Either licence ends when you delete the route or set it back to private, though as above we cannot clear a third party's index for you.

Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors and is used under the Open Database Licence. Satellite imagery is supplied by Esri and its providers. Their terms apply to that material.

RoutePOV is provided as-is. We do not promise it will be available at any particular time, and parts of it depend on free third-party map and routing services we do not control. We may change or withdraw features. Where a change would lose your data we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export it.

Keep your own copy of anything you rely on. The GPX export on each route is there for exactly that.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, we are not liable for loss arising from your use of the service, including the outcome of a driving test, a road traffic incident, lost business, lost data, or anything we could not reasonably have foreseen when you started using RoutePOV.

If you use RoutePOV as a consumer rather than in the course of a business, you keep all of your statutory rights, and this section does not affect them.

RoutePOV is free to use while it is in early access. There is nothing to pay, no card details are taken, and no trial is running out.

If we introduce a charge, we will tell instructors by email before it starts, and no existing account will be charged without agreeing to it first. Routes built while the service was free remain yours either way, and the GPX export on every route means you can take them with you whether or not you continue.

When there is a price, these terms will be updated to cover payment, renewal and cancellation, including the statutory cancellation rights that apply to consumers buying online. Until then there is nothing to cancel.

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when they last changed, and we will tell instructors by email about anything significant.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in your own courts.

Questions about these terms: privacy@routepov.com. See also our privacy notice.