The short version, in plain English

SortMyStops.com is a free web tool that keeps a chosen start and finish fixed, reorders the intermediate stops into an efficient sequence and hands that order to a navigation app. It covers the 48 contiguous states and Washington, DC. There is no account or subscription. By using the service, you agree to these terms.

You must be legally able to accept these terms. If you use the planner for an organization, you confirm that you are authorized to do so on its behalf.

Routes, distances and drive times are estimates produced by routing providers from road data. They do not account for live traffic, closures, weather, construction, vehicle restrictions, private access roads, or whether a turn is legal for the vehicle you are driving.

Review the complete route before departure. Do not interact with the planner or edit a route while driving; pull over safely or let a passenger handle the device. Road signs, traffic laws, closures and vehicle restrictions take priority over any estimate. Height, weight, hazmat and commercial-vehicle limits are not modeled.

The service is provided as-is, without warranty. It is free, it may be unavailable at times, and features may change. Do not build a process that cannot survive an outage.

You agree not to:

• automate bulk requests, scrape the site or otherwise place unreasonable load on it; geocoding and routing endpoints are rate limited and abuse is blocked;
• resell or rebrand the service, or present its output as your own commercial routing product;
• use it for anything unlawful, or to plan activity that would harm people;
• upload addresses you have no right to process. If those are customer addresses, that responsibility stays with you.

Normal daily use for your own routes, including commercial driving, is allowed and is what the planner is for.

The addresses and notes you enter remain yours. Persistent drafts and recent routes are stored in your browser, while route data is also processed by the site’s API and selected geocoding or routing providers to produce a result. The privacy page explains which fields are processed for each purpose.

A shared route link reversibly encodes stops and notes in the URL. If you share one, you are sharing that data with anyone who receives the complete link. Do not include sensitive personal information, passwords or access codes.

Address and map data can come from state and local GIS address services, the US Census Bureau Geocoder, Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors, used under their respective terms. Routing may be provided by LocationIQ, Simple Routing or OpenRouteService. When you open a route in a navigation app, that app’s own terms and privacy policy apply.

Additional public address-data credits, where these sources are available: Kansas DASC, Indiana Geographic Information Office, Delaware FirstMap, Iowa Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, Arkansas GIS Office, State of Colorado Office of Information Technology, GIS Team, Colorado Public Addresses, MassGIS (Bureau of Geographic Information), Commonwealth of Massachusetts EOTSS, City of Boston, Street and Address Management, County of Los Angeles, Countywide Address Management System, Arizona Geographic Information Council, Commonwealth of Kentucky NG911, Maine Office of GIS, Montana State Library, State of Ohio GIS, Rhode Island Geographic Information System, Utah Geospatial Resource Center, Washington Department of Revenue, West Virginia GIS Technical Center, Miami-Dade County GeoAddress, and Metropolitan Council, Twin Cities. Sources accessed October 8, 2026. Local sources cover their own jurisdictions; availability and precision vary. Their inclusion does not imply government endorsement.

Further address sources include State of Idaho, The Idaho Map, University of New Hampshire, NH GRANIT, City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Department of Information Services, City of Houston, Planning and Development Department, City of Austin, City of Dallas, Enterprise GIS, City of Detroit, City of Milwaukee, Nashville and Davidson County Planning Department, City of Pittsburgh, and City of Orlando. Parcel and street-range locations may be approximate. Dallas GIS data is for informational purposes and is not a legal, engineering, or surveying product.

Other public address sources include North Dakota GIS Hub and local addressing authorities (excluding Sioux County), Oklahoma NG911 / OKMaps public address data, York County Government, South Carolina, City of Johns Creek, Georgia, City of Prattville, Alabama, City of Sioux Falls and Minnehaha County, New Mexico E911 and UNM EDAC data published by the Town of Taos for Taos County, Arlington County, Virginia, City of Galesburg and Knox County ETSB, and City of Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee. Johns Creek and Sioux Falls data are used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We combine and normalize address fields for display and filter unsupported or conflicting results; these changes are not endorsed by the source authorities. Address points can represent buildings, entrances, parcels, or preliminary locations and may be approximate.

Regional address-data credits also include City of New Haven GIS, Connecticut, City of Tupelo Engineering and GIS, and Lee County E-911, Mississippi, City of Springfield GIS, Greene County, Missouri, City of Lincoln and Lancaster County, Nebraska, Douglas County GIS, Douglas and Sarpy Counties, Nebraska, Sheridan County, Wyoming, Natrona Regional Geospatial Cooperative and City of Casper, Wyoming, Cheyenne and Laramie County GIS Cooperative, DeKalb County GIS, Georgia, and Clark County School District, Demographics, Zoning and GIS, Nevada. These sources serve their published jurisdictions. DeKalb data covers only the DeKalb portion of Atlanta. Clark County data is published for school-zone reference; our address search uses its address points and makes no school-assignment claim.

Additional regional address data is provided by Sacramento County GIS, County of Santa Clara GIS, Fulton County GIS, St. Louis County GIS Service Center, Jackson County GIS, Missouri, City of Charleston GIS, City of Dallas GIS, City of San Antonio GIS, City of Richmond, Virginia, Orange County GIS, Florida, Cook County GIS. County sources cover their published county area, including only the part of a city within that county. Address points may describe a parcel or approximate location; they are not a survey, a guarantee of delivery, or driving directions. Cook County publishes its address dataset as Public Domain, and Sacramento County dedicates its address dataset to the public domain. Other sources retain their published terms and disclaimers.

Other public address sources include City of Hartford GIS, City of Mobile, Alabama, City of Oxford, Mississippi, Covington County E9-1-1; Southern Pine Electric, Covington County Tax Assessor and Mississippi 811, City of Santa Fe GIS, City and County of San Francisco, Enterprise Addressing System / DataSF (PDDL), Alameda County GIS, City of Philadelphia, Address Information System, Lafayette Consolidated Government, Pinellas County eGIS, Eaton County GIS, Michigan, City of El Paso GIS, Denton County GIS, St. Louis County GIS, Minnesota, Wisconsin Office of Emergency Communications; participating local addressing authorities, State of Tennessee STS GIS, Tennessee Emergency Communications Board and local 911 districts, New Mexico 911 address data, May 2024 public copy published by FEMA Region 6. These datasets have partial coverage and can include parcel or approximate points. The New Mexico FEMA publication is a May 2024 snapshot; newer local data remains available for Santa Fe and Taos. San Francisco base addresses are published under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL). Source terms and accuracy disclaimers apply; verify your stops before driving.

Statewide locators from the Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN), the South Carolina Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, the South Carolina Department of Transportation and State of Tennessee STS GIS answer address searches in those states, together with local data from Boone County, Missouri, the City of Albuquerque, the City of Jacksonville, Ottawa County, Michigan and Rapid City and Pennington County, South Dakota. Source terms and accuracy disclaimers apply.

Springfield data notice, required by its website use policy: This site provides data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.springfieldmo.gov, the official website of the City of Springfield, Missouri. The City of Springfield makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one’s own risk.

Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, OsmAnd and the other products named on this site are trademarks of their respective owners. SortMyStops.com is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them, and comparisons on this site reflect publicly available information at the time of writing.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided without warranties and the operator of SortMyStops.com is not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential losses arising from use of route estimates, outages or third-party data. Nothing in these terms excludes liability or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

If you need guaranteed availability, support response times, contractual routing accuracy or coverage for regulated vehicles, do not rely on this free service as your only planning system.

These terms may change when the product, providers or legal requirements change. The effective date below identifies the version currently published. Material changes apply prospectively from the updated date.

Questions or notices for the site operator go to contact@sortmystops.com.