[OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursamundi.org
Wed Nov 2 08:41:11 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 02/11/16 00:57, john whelan wrote:
> > If OSMand etc treat them differently then we may not be showing the
> > shortest route.
>
> OSMAnd currently does not use the best routes in any rural area! While
> the roads even in the UK may be 'unclassified', in many rural areas they
> are the main routes and I have asked before how this 'bug' can be fixed.
> Reclassifying the road is obviously wrong, but similarly changing the
> routing rules is wrong for other parts of the world, so it's not just a
> case of which routes are used, it's how the bias is applied to those
> routes ... and currently OSMAnd is simply wrong for the UK!
>

Try playing with the routing settings in Osmand.  My part of the world can
get similarly obscure at the low end, but usually setting shortest route
helps.
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