Used AI for route planning: break the 160 km Berlin Wall Trail into 5 stages

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Thought that might be helpful for someone else.

I asked AI to help me plan my cycling project for this spring: ride the entire Berlin Wall Trail (160 km), but in digestible ~30 km chunks every weekend.

Instead of spending hours maps applications, the AI split the route into 5 stages—each starting and ending at a train station I can easily reach from Ostkreuz train station. It also gave me Google Maps links and GPX files for Komoot. Took it 10 minutes. Took me none.

I used Chat-GPT with o3 model. The prompt looked like this:

Take this route from Kamoot https://www.komoot.com/collection/713/the-berlin-wall-trail-in-3-stages.
Split it to 5 stages with 30 km each. For every stage define starting and ending point and in a way that it is reachable from the Ostkreuz S-Bahn station. Out of this create 5 routes that could be opened on Google Maps and create GPX files that could be imported to Kamoot

Here’s how the stages look:

Ostkreuz → Schönefeld

Schönefeld → Griebnitzsee

Griebnitzsee → Staaken

Staaken → Hohen Neuendorf

Hohen Neuendorf → Ostkreuz

I’ll be using this setup for future long-distance routes planned for this year. Planning time as well as mental effort was simnifically reduced.