I looked at the web interface. Using fast bike low traffic it took me along a fairly major narrow four lane highway that has a higher speed limit than the local residential roads for most of the way. It might have been the shortest route but not a good one for cycling.
Treking did better but to be honest even that one took me along highways I would normally avoid. Locally we have lots of parks with for the most part paved paths that cycling is permitted on and I much prefer to use these where possible. The built in OSMand router actually picked out the route closest to the one I'd like to use but thanks for the suggestion. I'll pull it into the device and see how it does when I play with it. Thanks John On 13 September 2018 at 17:33, Majka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, 13 September 2018 23:15:09 UTC+2, john whelan wrote: >> >> I ride a recumbent trike so width can be an issue and so can ground >> clearance. >> >> However I recently plotted a route and the path it selected involved a >> path through a park that went down a gulley, so very steep up and down >> portions, and additionally it was earth so after some recent rainfall the >> back wheel just spun. >> >> I'd like to tag the path so that cycle routing will avoid it unless you >> are riding a mountain bike. >> >> Suggestions other than buy a mountain bike please. >> >> There is another path locally more suited to mountain goats than bikes so >> again suggestions on tagging. >> >> Are there any settings I can use on OSMand to say keep me on gentle paths >> and roads? >> >> Thanks John >> > > Do not use Osmand bike routing but the BRouter one. Osmand routing can > avoid unpaved roads but it won't take route profile (up and downs) in the > calculation. > You can set up Osmand so that it will use the BRouter just like the > internal routing, but the profiles are better set up for bike. There are > several proifles you can choose from. There is special profile for recumbent > trike. > > You'll need download BRouter and download additonal data, but after set > up, everything will work just like it does now. Only the routing for > bicycle will be much better. > > You can try if the routing would be what you want here > <http://brouter.de/brouter-web/#zoom=11&lat=48.8651&lon=14.1603&layer=OpenStreetMap&lonlats=&nogos=&profile=vm-forum-velomobil-schnell&alternativeidx=0&format=geojson>. > Try first the profile I have preselected for you, it should be nearest to > what you want. Try the route you had problems with to see, if this improves > the routing. > > Come back if this would be something you want to use and you need help > with the setup. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Osmand" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
