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<p>Concerning the rendering you already got some
answers. <a href="http://waymarkedtrails.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">waymarkedtrails.org</a>
seems to use only the relations and ignores completely
ways - practically I only use waymarkedtrails not the
opencyclemap. The information about the infrastructure
of a way is quite useless on longer distances for you
have to check the map til the end, whether the
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<div>This I don't get. For what purpose do you have to check
the map til the end? Are you planning a route by looking
at the lines? AFAIK Waymarkedtrails does not route and
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<p>And you have sometimes a lot of possibilities which
route you could take, sometimes cycle lanes plus
allowed use of the footpath. Which of these would
belong to the network, which one you would tag with a
network tag.</p>
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<div>That sounds like you could use a routing application
like <a href="http://cycle.travel" moz-do-not-send="true">cycle.travel</a>.
The fact that waymarkedtrails, opencyclemap and <a
href="http://cycle.travel" moz-do-not-send="true">cycle.travel</a>
render route relations with some form of highlighting,
explains why you started to use route relations as
collections to express the preference. The move to network
relations containing all the ways also removes the
rendering, but if at the bottom of the network piramid are
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<p>;-) well there are things of my personal taste... I ride quite
far distances visiting friends and so, resulting in quite late
trips in the dark. Therefore I prefer the official routes with
the strongly reflecting route markers, where I can relatively
rely on quite suitable and less dangerous routes for the
bicycle. The data on OSM is still quite bad (and even worse in
google maps) so you get quite bad routes with very dangerous
passages it you trust them. The official bicycle network is
neither fully available at the official websites of the state
(because these sites are horribly outdated) nor in openstreetmap
(also outdated, still many missing routes and many routes that
don't exist any more).</p>
<p>So I don't use any router. I just use the map. And I correct it
at any place where I find mistakes. The tiles of waymarkedtrails
simply have a strong contrast, I want to find my way even in the
sun.<br>
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<p>I have the imagination that we once could have a database about
the bicycle network where you could make up nice maps as well
routings inside the bicycle network. The maps are getting better
at the moment, routing could be possible if there was a clear
tagging scheme. At the moment no router is able to create routes
on the official bicycle network (The funny thing is: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.radroutenplaner.nrw.de/"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.radroutenplaner.nrw.de/</a>
is supposed to do the job... but the state has obviously no
access to actual data... not only now in times of corona but
obviously over the last decade as you can see if you compare the
data at nrw.de with e.g. mapillary... It think it is because the
districts create routes in the network and make a lot of
signposting and changing routes, but don't transfer the data to
the central database... I know about the city of Bielefeld that
meanwhile the authorities also use openstreetmap to work on
their geodata...)<br>
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<p>Sebastian<br>
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