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Directions for cyclists are just that much worse. On a long tour, unless you spend the time looking into every intersection, you may end up for a couple miles o
by Karrot_Kream 7y ago
Directions for cyclists are just that much worse. On a long tour, unless you spend the time looking into every intersection, you may end up for a couple miles on a highway/expressway/avenue with cars going 40-60mph, and scaring the crap out of you. This isn't an argument against digital maps of course (you can still make a track and overlay that onto a map), but just wanted to add a bit more context.
- Aachen 7y agoDoes that also happen in well known apps like OsmAnd or any of the OpenStreetMap.org default routing engines in an area where the roads are tagged correctly as car-only roads xor cyclepaths are available? Because that sounds like a bug we can fix.
- Karrot_Kream 7y agoThe issue with OsmAnd and OSM.org in the US is often that roads are either not tagged properly or they are tagged as cycle paths because the local government has designated them as a cycling path, but the street itself is quite unsafe. There's no real problem with the path routing libraries, a lot of it is just the data. I've thought about exploring an alternate set of tags to tag something in OSM as a "popular" cycle path, but I'm not sure how to go about proposing that tagging system.