Hello,
I apologize if this question is off-topic for this list. I am trying to
get an idea about how the bicycle routing of Basecamp 4.4.8 works (or
eTrex 20x, which is the unit I have) and how it differs from
car/automotive routing. I wonder if others in this list could enlighten me.
From the information I was able to gather, automotive routing works
like this:
- fastest speed: gives preference to higher road_class
- shortest route: disregards road_class, calculates shortest route
In both cases road_speed is only used for ETA and not route calculation
(or has a very low weight).
However, does bicycle routing works in the same way? I found confliction
information on this point: when using 'fastest speed', some say that
*lower* classes are preferred (due to roads being less busy) but most
dedicated cycle maps that I have encountered (for example ligfietser's
most excellent OpenFietsMap) use higher classes for more desirable roads
and claim that the map can be used in both automotive and bicycle mode.
And what about 'shortest route': does it disregard road_class like
automotive mode?
And how 'bicycle' and 'tour cycling' differ?
I'm going to create a custom OSM map and a custom style in order to get
some more clues and share the findings with the list but I would
appreciate if somebody with the knowledge could shed some light into
these issues.
Cheers!
// Leonardo.
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