"Driving style" options for walking directions

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Francesco Puccettone

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Jun 14, 2020, 11:10:29 AM6/14/20
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For cycling directions, OsmAnd has a set of very useful "Driving style" options (e.g. to avoid main roads).

Is it possible to define a similar set of preferences for computed walking routes? Preferences like trying as much as possible to avoid roads and prefer mountain paths, even if it means a detour. 

Without such preferences, one has to constantly define "avoid" points along the route that happen to be hiking-unsuitable, like noisy roads.

Bart Eisenberg

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Jun 14, 2020, 12:00:12 PM6/14/20
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The built-in walking preferences (as opposed to creating your own routing.xml)  are at settings > Walking > Navigation settings > Route parameters. But I'm not sure there's a setting that gets you that level of specificity.  "Avoid roads", for example, just avoids Motorways, not decibels. 

You can of course set intermediate points to avoid hiking-unfriendly routes. But that's not so much a preference as a selection.  

Francesco Puccettone

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Jun 14, 2020, 12:32:20 PM6/14/20
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On second thought, I think walking routing by default tries to avoid main roads, so checking 'avoid motorways' does not appear to lead to much more hike-friendly routes. But you're right, setting intermediate points is an ok workaround (this is what I had been using).
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