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plotaroute admin Tuesday 20 May 2014 15:31:18
Thanks Mark. Glad you like the site. Yes, our Make Me a Route feature did use Google for routing before. The new version uses MapQuest by default as this offers more options but we wanted to keep the Google option too. I'll look into how we can restrict the Google option to use roads only - we should hopefully be able to sort that out if it was working that way before.
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John McCabe Wednesday 21 May 2014 10:40:42
That would be good. Seems to be what the Mapquest routing allows (the "Paved" roads option) so I guess perhaps either trying to include a "Paved" option with the Google routing or an "Allow major roads" option with the Mapquest routing would be the answer to our prayers :-)
I agree with Mark; this is a great facility. There are a few little annoyances from my point of view but being able to make a route is exactly what I've been looking for.
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Mark Smith Wednesday 21 May 2014 13:07:43
Please sort the issue soon. I know the upgrade will be for the better in the long run, but at the moment the "make me a route" function was better before the upgrade.
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plotaroute admin Wednesday 21 May 2014 14:53:05
We've found a bug in the MapQuest routing that was causing the "Paved" terrain setting to be ignored - this has now been fixed, so hopefully that should help with making road bike routes using the default MapQuest option.
If anyone wants to use the previous version of our 'Make Me a Route' feature, please click on the settings icon in the top left corner of the Make Me a Route panel and choose to use Google for routing rather than MapQuest. Then choose walking as the travel mode (this was the travel mode used by the previous version - no option was previously available for cycling). This will make routes in the same way as the previous version.
We plan to keep working on improvements to this feature but are limited to some degree by the routing options available to us by the different mapping providers. Unfortunately Google doesn't currently offer an option to specify road-bike friendly routes at present, so we can't add that right now, but I'm sure more options can be added over time as these services improve.
John
