That sounds like a cool idea. Sadly, I tried it from my current (moderately rural) location and discovered the shortcomings of its knowledge of the local map. B

That sounds like a cool idea. Sadly, I tried it from my current (moderately rural) location and discovered the shortcomings of its knowledge of the local map. Best route is to run around the neighborhoods, but it doesn’t know that there’s a few foot paths connecting the roads making that possible. First, it suggested running along the highway (it sees the river and bike path and doesn’t realize there’s no sidewalk or walking path). Attempt 2 suggested starting out by running up the steepest hill in the area (ok, this is often unavoidable). Attempt 3 was mostly reasonable, except for the lovely jog at the end through the local manufacturer’s gated parking lot (they own both sides of aforementioned river, so the map sees water, and doesn’t realize that you’ll only see office buildings and asphalt). So the algorithm seemed to be fair, but the local map information was rather poor.