[Talk-ca] A message aimed more at Ottawa

[Matthew Darwin]

Hi Steve,

I share your desire to not duplicate stuff that is already done. There 
is a strong attempt in the Ottawa community to use standard OSM tags 
highway:cycleway, cycleway:lane/track and bicycle:*etc..

The bicycle router is very nice (cycle.travel). However, I think an 
Ottawa bike routing algorithm will require modifications to work in 
Ottawa where we need to tag routes as being maintained in the winter 
(or not) and then allowing you to choose if you want a 
winter-maintained route or not.

Also would like to see more options to avoid roads and only travel on 
paths that are lit.

For example, I just plugged in FROM/TO where I might go, and the route 
chosen is the most direct, but not the one I would take because it 
goes on a very busy section of road with traffic at 100km/hour with no 
shoulder. ... I would take the longer path. It also picks paths that 
are not cyclable at this time of year.

Matthew Darwin
matthew at mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca

On 2018-01-23 03:25 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
> Oops, the bicycle router I wanted to refer to in my previous is http://cycle.travel by Richard Fairhurst (whom I inexplicably confused with Simon Poole).
>
> SteveA
> California
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