Brouter avoid cycleway

broutertry

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Jan 6, 2024, 2:12:39 PMJan 6

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I was a little puzzled, that Brouter avoid Georg-Oswald-May-Weg

https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/34887965#map=17/50.09054/8.74492&layers=C

which is a designated cycleway.

https://brouter.de/brouter-web/#map=16/50.0908/8.7440/standard,terrarium-hillshading,Waymarked_Trails-Cycling,camp_site,route-quality&lonlats=8.747369,50.089508;8.740181,50.092371

So I checked the data of OSM. I didn't recognize the reason. Any hints.

Volker Schmidt

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Jan 7, 2024, 5:35:32 AMJan 7

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The "cycleway" is tagged as "path" with no width, with surface=compacted and smoothness=intermediate, whereas the route proposed by BRouter is all living_street with paving_stones.

If you place an additional waypoint on the "cycleway" BRouter changes the route, so it is not a connection problem.

Looking at street-level imagery, I would say that the surface/smoothness tagging of the foot-cycle way is too "pessimistic". Together with the missing width information that would explain BRouter's preference for the longer, but much more bicycle-friendly route along the living streets.

My experience with BRouter and the standard trekking bike profile is that iit often does ignore combined foot-cycle-ways tagged with the highway=path scheme. I have not looked any closer into this, just my personal experience.

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Ess Bee

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Jan 28, 2024, 9:54:30 AMJan 28

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Hello,

I agree, the standard trekking profile has many weeknesses.

As alternative you can try/use this link (my test instance)

https://brouter.de/essbee/#map=16/50.0913/8.7447/standard,Waymarked_Trails-Cycling,route-quality&lonlats=8.747369,50.089508;8.740181,50.092371&profile=trekking_SB

I tried last year to change the standard trekking profile, but I had no success till yet.