Turn an order email into one route link
Paste the order exactly as it arrived. The addresses get pulled out, you drag them into the right order, and you get one Google Maps link to send the driver — instead of twelve open tabs.
Paste the order
Works with Outlook order mails, Excel columns and plain lists. Everything is processed in your browser — nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Who opens the link
Google honours nine waypoints on a desktop but only three in a mobile browser. Opened in the Maps app on the phone the long link works — in the browser it silently drops stops, so for the driver I split it.
Route options
“Start navigation straight away” makes the link open directly in guidance mode on the driver’s phone instead of showing the overview first.
The link
Add at least one stop and the link appears here.
Message for the driver
“Copy link to this route” gives you an ldmtools.com address with the whole stop list inside it. Save that with the order instead of leaving a Maps tab open.
Questions about multi-stop links
Why does Google Maps only allow ten stops?
That is the limit of the consumer product, not of this tool. A single Maps link carries a start, an end and nine waypoints between them. Past that the tool splits your route into legs that overlap at the junction stop, so leg two starts where leg one finished and nothing is lost.
The driver opens the link and half the stops are missing.
He opened it in the phone's browser rather than the Maps app. Google only honours three waypoints in a mobile browser and silently drops the rest. Switch “Who opens the link” to the driver's phone and the route is split into fives, which survives either way.
Does this route the truck properly?
No, and nothing free does. Google routes a car: no bridge heights, no weight limits, no HGV-banned roads, no ADR restrictions. Use the link for the sequence of stops and the rough kilometres, and check the restrictions yourself before you send it.
Where do my addresses go?
Nowhere. The parsing happens in your browser, and the addresses only reach Google at the moment somebody clicks the link. There is no account, no database and no logging on this site.
An address will not resolve on the map.
Put the company name in front of the street: “Spedition Weber GmbH, Industriestrasse 14, 40880 Ratingen”. Warehouses and terminals are usually in Google under their business name even when the street number is wrong or the site entrance is on another road. Coordinates work too — paste them as 56.9496, 24.1052.