I generally use gmaps-pedometer.com for creating routes because it has most of the cyclepaths that I use, thus making it easier to create routes. However, I'd like to view multiply routes on one map (eg - route #1 in red, #2 in blue etc.) but that doesn't seem to be possible using gmaps-pedometer. I can export the files as GPX files (using this), so is there a way I can import the GPX data for the various routes onto a single map?
Its fairly easy to combine the GPX files into one, bigger, GPX file containing multiple Routes and/or Tracks. You can just do this in a text editor. Each route should be uniquely named and inside its own pair of <rte></rte> tags.
The GPX standard supports this, but your mapping software or website, whatever it is, may not - some do and many don't, so you can only try it really. Likewise colours, which I don't think are even part of the GPX standard, but are often added as an 'extension'.