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Driving and walking but no cycling?

• diggan 6y ago
  DuckDuckGo seems to be a US-based enterprise (remind me again how that works with being "privacy friendly"?) so it's hardly surprising as cycling seems to be almost non-existing in most cities in the US.
• Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  There is less consensus on routing for cycling, no one-size-fits-all solution, because everything depends on stamina, level of comfort cycling with traffic, tire width and wheel durability. On Android, for instance, see how different the routes can be when generated by OSMAnd's in-built cycling router and when generated by the Brouter plugin (which in turn has two profiles users must choose from). No surprise that DDG doesn't want to roll out cycle routing before they can think up a UI that offers the required customizability without daunting the user.
  • petre 6y ago
    Graphopper can give you a bike route which avoids hills, a mountain bike route which doesn't and also uses unpaved roads and a road bike route which also dorsn't but sticks to the road. It's quite good too. I used it to plan bike trips, because it also exports GPX tracks.
  • 1over137 6y ago
    >no one-size-fits-all solution, because everything depends on stamina, tire width and wheel durability Those aren't the most important metrics. In cities at least, the most important things are: car traffic and hills. Many cyclists would rather take a slower route if there's less cars about, and to avoid biking uphill.