About Camperada
Camperada is a standalone route planner for motorhomes and campervans. The thinking behind it: a motorhome trip is planned along the route, not as a collection of individual sites. That is why the map and the road come first, with vehicle dimensions, overnight stops, daily stages and costs attached to them.
The project is deliberately lean: no sign-up requirement, no ad banners, sparing with data. What is still missing is stated openly on the home page and only appears once it genuinely works. It is built by Jan Gloger as a one-person project, out of a personal need for exactly this kind of planner.
Where the data comes from
What the planner shows comes from open or freely available sources, with one exception: which sites can be booked on camping.info, Eurocampings and PiNCAMP comes from the feeds of their partner programmes at Awin and TradeTracker. The main sources are listed here with their role.
- OpenStreetMap
- Map rendering, campsites and motorhome stopovers, disposal points, access restrictions and the low emission zones outside France. Open data, maintained by a worldwide community. Camperada holds the roughly 208,000 sites worldwide in its own store and refreshes them monthly from OpenStreetMap; a newly added site therefore appears only with the next update.
- OpenFreeMap
- Map tiles, map style and fonts of the map in the planner. Your browser loads them directly from OpenFreeMap, which sees your IP address in the process. The tiles follow the OpenMapTiles schema and come from OpenStreetMap.
- QLever
- The query service through which Camperada renews its own inventories from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata: sites, ferries, sights and low emission zones every month, the access restrictions every week. Run by the University of Freiburg.
- Nominatim
- Place search and turning map points into place names.
- GraphHopper
- Route calculation with your vehicle's dimensions, on a server of our own with a routing graph built from OpenStreetMap. Roads with a recorded height, width, length or weight limit below your dimensions stay closed, and above 3.5 tonnes so do recorded lorry bans.
- OpenRouteService
- Route calculation when our own server cannot handle a trip, for example from Europe to Morocco. Here too with your dimensions; if the route fails because of them, Camperada continues without them and says so beneath the route.
- Wikidata
- Prominence, names and short descriptions of the sights along your route. Licensed CC0. Camperada keeps this inventory itself and refreshes it monthly.
- Base Nationale des Zones à Faibles Émissions
- The French low emission zones with their Crit'Air levels and periods of validity, reported by the cities themselves. Official data under the Licence Ouverte 2.0; Camperada keeps a copy and renews it monthly.
- Your Europe
- The fact sheets for the rules on the road: speed, lights, alcohol, equipment, winter and low emission zones per country. They are based on each country's laws and government pages, plus the EU's Your Europe site and, where both are silent, the major motoring clubs. The sources are listed on each country's page and checked against their pages every week.
- Wikipedia
- The opening sentences about a sight when you tap it on the map. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, with a link to the article.
- Wikimedia Commons
- The photo of a sight. Author and licence are shown with every image; it is loaded through our server, so Wikimedia never sees your address.
- MET Norway
- Daily forecast from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute for the stops on your trip, up to nine days ahead. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Weekly Oil Bulletin
- Weekly average fuel prices per country from the European Commission, the basis of the cost calculation. Only the EU is surveyed.
- PiNCAMP
- Average overnight prices per country from the annual price analysis by PiNCAMP (ADAC). The trip plan estimates overnight costs from them as a range. Since October 2026, PiNCAMP has also been a partner of Camperada: which sites can be booked online there comes from the product feed of the partner programme at TradeTracker, matched to the sites from OpenStreetMap by name and location every week; at runtime the planner never queries PiNCAMP.
- camping.info
- Which sites can be booked online at camping.info. Camperada matches the product data feed of the partner programme at Awin to the sites from OpenStreetMap by name and location every week; at runtime the planner never queries camping.info.
- ACSI Eurocampings
- Which pitches can be booked online at ACSI Eurocampings. Camperada matches the product feed of the partner programme at TradeTracker to the sites from OpenStreetMap by name and town every week; the towns are located via OpenStreetMap. At runtime the planner never queries Eurocampings.
- Natural Earth
- Country borders for assigning route sections to countries, the basis for tolls and the fuel price mix. Public domain.
- Sketchfab
- The vehicle in the 3D view and the cab in the conversion planner follow the model “ducato-l4h2-model” by jan.zvak on Sketchfab, licence CC BY 4.0, modified for Camperada.
All requests run through Camperada's own endpoints; only map tiles, map style and fonts are loaded by your browser directly from the tile provider.
The datasets derived from OpenStreetMap (sites, ferries, sights, low emission zones, access restrictions, toll network, routing graph) are, like their source, under the ODbL. This file describes how they are made; a copy is available on request.
What Camperada is not
Not a sat nav: Camperada plans the trip, you drive it with a navigation device or app. Not a booking platform: prices and availability are not part of the open data. And no substitute for looking at the road sign, because no database knows every roadworks and every newly fitted height barrier.
Being honest about those limits is part of the product. A planner that pretends to know everything becomes dangerous at exactly the moment you trust it.
Frequently asked questions
What does Camperada cost?
Nothing. Camperada is free to use, with no premium tier, no ad banners and no selling of data. Where you can book a site directly on camping.info, Eurocampings or PiNCAMP or a ferry at Direct Ferries, the link is labelled as a partner link: if you book through it, Camperada earns a commission.
How does Camperada make money?
Through labelled partner links to currently four booking portals. For sites that camping.info, ACSI Eurocampings or PiNCAMP lists as bookable, the planner shows “Bookable online at” and the portal's name; if several list the same site, their links appear with equal rank in a fixed alphabetical order. If you search for sites for a stop in your plan and it has travel dates, the planner only shows the portals where your dates are already preselected, currently camping.info and PiNCAMP. For ferries, the trip plan shows “Prices and sailings at Direct Ferries” if Direct Ferries lists the connection. The links to sites run through the partner networks Awin and TradeTracker, the one to Direct Ferries through its own partner programme; if you book through one, the portal pays a commission, a share of the booking value. Which sites the planner shows, and in which order, does not depend on the commission. The complete list of partners and partner networks is in the privacy policy.
Do I need an account?
No. You secure your trip with a save code, much like a vehicle configurator: saving gives you a code that reopens the plan on any device. Without an account, the plan is kept until it has gone unopened for six months. If you prefer, you can also create a free account, which then collects your routes in one place along with your vehicles and their dimensions and fuel consumption.
Are my vehicle dimensions really used for routing?
Yes. The route is calculated with your dimensions: roads with a height, width, length or weight limit below them recorded in OpenStreetMap stay closed, and above 3.5 tonnes so do recorded lorry bans. If no route can be found that way, for example because a stop in a city centre gets no connection to the network, Camperada continues without your dimensions. Which of the two applies is shown beneath every calculated route.
How reliable is the warning about height and weight restrictions?
It shows what is recorded in OpenStreetMap, checked up to 50 metres either side of your route. If a restriction is missing from the data, it is missing from the warning too. Conversely, a restricted road may cross your route without you ever driving under it. That is why the planner calls them possible restrictions, and why they do not replace a look at the sign.
Where does the site data come from, and how complete is it?
From OpenStreetMap. Coverage is good in central Europe, while the level of detail on facilities and prices varies by region. If a site is missing, you can add it to OpenStreetMap directly, which benefits every map built on that data.
Why can't I see any campsites on the map?
Because the display is switched off: the sites layer on the map turns them on. After that there is no zoom level at which the map stays empty. Zoomed far out it shows where the sites are as a density rather than 208,000 individual points; as you zoom in, the clusters resolve into single sites.
How accurate are the fuel and toll costs?
Fuel costs are as accurate as your consumption figure; the prices come from the European Commission's weekly national averages. For tolls, fixed amounts such as vignettes and special tolls are kept separate from estimated distance-based tolls, and where no dependable tariffs exist you get a note instead of a number.
How do I get the route onto my sat nav?
Through the GPX export in the planner. GPX 1.1 is read by most devices and apps, from Garmin to OsmAnd. There is a guide on this in the advice section.
Does Camperada work on a phone while travelling?
Yes. The interface adapts to small screens, and the planning panel becomes a drawer you pull up from the bottom edge. An internet connection is required; there is no offline mode.
What happens to my data?
Trip plans are only stored when you secure them with a save code or store them while signed in; calculated routes are kept on the server as a cache for up to 90 days, with no link to you. Reach is measured by a cookie-free, self-hosted analytics tool with no link to an account or trip plan; there are no ad banners and no third-party tracking services; partner links transmit nothing until you click them, and never your route; the planner shows beforehand what a link passes on. Details are in the privacy policy.
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