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Pierre Chartier Tuesday 05 Nov 2019 14:19:06
Hello
Great web site I use very often for planning my bike (road and mountain bike) routes and hikes.
One of the rare issues I face is with “road bikeable” routes. I like the “road bikeable” overlay, but It happened to me several times either to end up on a gravel path (not bikeable) or (less frequently) on a road where bikes are forbidden.
Gravel path happen when I use the auto plot for “bikes”, (but apparently it is designed for mountain bikes).
Forbidden roads happen when I use auto plot for road to avoid the previous issue.
Ideas for improvement :
- Have a “road bike” auto plot
- If not possible, the easiest solution would be to “just” make the “road bikeable” overlay more readable : in the current version, the gray color showing if the road is road bikeable is not very visible once you have plotted a route on it.
- Another idea would be to have several colors on the route: the usual blue if the path is on a road bikeable road, yellow if the path if it is on dirt paths and in red if on a road forbidden to bikes (only two colors would be fine as well)
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plotaroute admin Wednesday 06 Nov 2019 08:48:36
Thanks for this feedback Pierre - glad you're enjoyign using the site. I think an Auto-Plot option "By Road Bike" would be great idea. The question is whether it's feasible. I think we could do possibly do this with the OSM routing engine we use but I don't think Google's routing service supports this option. It would also depend on the data quality on the OSM database. We'll put it on the list to look into.
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