[OSM-talk] YOURS now supports route using only cycleroutes - Update

Shaun McDonald shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk
Thu Sep 11 11:22:07 BST 2008


Shaun McDonald wrote:
> Lambertus wrote:
>   
>> Please note that the routing database is *only* filled with cycle routes 
>> that are mapped using *relations*. So there is no routing using cycle 
>> routes rendered on the Cycle map layer mapped with tags like 'ncn_ref' 
>> only...
>>
>> Unfortunately you can't see the difference on the cycle map, but when 
>> the website reports: 'Unable to calculate a route' then you can be 
>> pretty sure this is because of the above.
>>   
>>     
>
> This explains why I can't route from my house to work, where at each end 
> there is no local cycle route, and there are several small bits in the 
> middle where you cannot route over. This is either due to me not having 
> bothered to split the way, or as you say, there is a break in the relation.
>
> It would be really cool if you could have an edit permalink so that you 
> can edit the data on the openstreetmap web site.
>
> Would it be possible for you to have a different marker for the start 
> and end?
>
> Finally I was initially expecting a routing system that would prefer 
> cycle routes, however this makes an excellent data validation/testing tool.
>
>   
Further to this, I cannot seem to be able to route over trunk roads.

Take for example

http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/8131748 and
http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/~lambertus/routing-world/?flat=51.440396&flon=-0.088604&tlat=51.442837&tlon=-0.084677&v=bicycle&fast=0&layer=cn

Is this intentional?

Shaun
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