Leaflet Route Builder

1Load your road data

Your area

⚙ My area isn't listed, or I have my own tracker link

Link your live tracker site

The address of the ward's live leaflet-map site. Reads its data source, backend, and title automatically -- nothing else on this page needs filling in by hand.

⚙ Load from a plain Google Sheet instead

Published CSV link

In your Sheet: File → Share → Publish to web → select the right tab → format CSV → Publish. Paste the link it gives you.

2Choose ward and route size

Ward Route type

Event day, from a start point

Everyone meets at a pub or other start point, and routes fan out from there. Sized by number of homes.

General ward routes, no start point

For people going out on their own to cover the ward over time. Each route starts at its own suggested spot, and routes are sized by effort, so a rural lane route has far fewer homes than a town one. Lanes are driven, delivering both sides; streets are walked.

Target residences per route

~90 minutes of leafleting at ~100 homes/hour, calibrated for a typical housing estate. A route covering the same target will be a much smaller area in a dense town centre, and a much longer walk or drive on spread-out rural roads -- the target is a residence count, not a distance.

Residence counts come from UPRN records (unique property references), which tend to run a little high compared to how many doors you'll actually knock on -- treat every figure on this page as an estimate, not an exact count.

Stick closely to the target size

By default a route can grow to two or three times the target when leftover streets are folded in. With this on, routes stay within about ±25% of the target (unless Min/Max are set under Advanced), and a single street too big for one route is split between routes. You'll get more routes, and a few isolated spots may still come out small.

Ward size

⚙ Advanced options

Min residences/route

Max residences/route

Walk radius (m)

Hybrid radius (m)

Event start point

Auto-pick the nearest pub (recommended)

Looked up from OpenStreetMap -- you'll be able to change it before building.

Enter a start point myself

Name, latitude, longitude.

3Review

4Live tracker connection

This ward's Apps Script URL (optional)

From the live leaflet-map site's own config (MAP_CONFIG.APPS_SCRIPT_URL in its index.html). In-app progress reports write straight to that ward's own Data sheet -- authorised editors write directly, everyone else's taps go to that site's normal pending-review queue. Leave blank to generate a read-only app with no reporting.

5Get your deliverables

Constituency / district

A fresh route plan should be generated close to the actual event day so it reflects the latest leafleted roads -- publishing here auto-deletes any previously published page over 14 days old, and tells you what it removed.

How route access works: each route gets its own secret word baked into its QR code and printed link (e.g. #Arbor). Only someone who scans or opens that specific route's code can report progress on it -- everyone else can still browse the map, but reporting stays locked to a read-only view. This needs the printed sheets (or their links) to actually reach volunteers. Skip this -- let anyone using the app report on any route

For a branch that can't get printed sheets or QR codes to people. With this on, whoever opens the app can pick and report on any route directly, no scanning needed.

Printed sheet style

Classic: one page per route

The route map, start point, street list and QR code.

Walking directions: up to two pages per route

Numbered step-by-step directions with each side of the road drawn on the map, plus the QR code. Longer routes need a second page. Just print as normal, each page on its own sheet of paper. Then put page 1 and page 2 back to back in one clear plastic wallet, so page 1 shows on the front and page 2 on the back. If your printer prints on both sides of the paper by itself, there's a tickbox for that on the print page. Uses more paper than Classic.

⚙ I'll host it myself instead

Where you'll host the app

Used for the QR codes on the route sheets and printed above -- re-download the sheets after filling this in if you already downloaded them.

🗺 Leaflet Route Builder

1Load your road data

2Choose ward and route size

3Review

4Live tracker connection

5Get your deliverables

📍 Tap the map to set your start point