[GraphHopper] Something wrong with bike routing?

[Peter K]

Hey ratrun,

really no problem. As you already noted this was also more or less a
limitation of graphhopper - will be improved in the issue you mentioned.

Regards,
Peter.


> Hello Peter,
>
> During the introduction of support for bicycle relations the weighting
> of highways of type cycleway, which are not part of a bicycle
> relation, unintentionally decreased in comparison to the previous
> versions. I guess that this is the difference you are seeing, because
> in the Benelux there are lots of cycleways.
> Peter intends to introduce a "preference routing" feature shortly -
> see https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/190, and I hope
> that this feature will allow easier tuning between the "fastest" and
> the "safest, nice" route.
>
> regards,
>
> ratrun
>
> Am 30.04.2014 22:33, schrieb Peter Bryan:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The last few days (weeks?) I've noticed that graphhopper routes for
>> bicycles seem to have changed. Previously, graphhopper would take
>> more bike friendly roads like bicycle paths or quiet roads. Routes
>> created today seem to take bigger and busier roads, most suitable for
>> cars. Is there something wrong with bicycle routing? Of course, I
>> prefer cycle paths over busy roads.
>>
>> I've uploaded an example on GPS Visualizer with an old and a new
>> route between the same locations:
>> http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/display/20140430130842-45066-map.html
>>
>> The old track (created in March) is much better than the route I
>> created today. I've tried this on GPSies and graphhopper.com/maps
>> <http://graphhopper.com/maps> with the same results. Routing between
>> other locations have the same problem.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this!
>>
>> Peter

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