[Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Antony Pegg
HI all, just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites more details here: http://blog.mapquest.com/2011/03/03/open-routing-options-expanded/ couple known things: - We've already discovered highway=bridleway not included - we've updated the

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Toby Murray
*Like* The bicycle router picks almost the exact route I take to work when I tell it to avoid hills. One thing I've noticed is that starting and ending positions are kind of weird when they involve a building polygon. I'm guessing buildings are reduced to a centroid point in the routing engine

Re: [Talk-us] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-04 Thread Dale Puch
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Antony Pegg write: just a quick note - we've added bicycle and pedestrian routing options to the MapQuest Open sites This will no doubt provoke the usual tirade of but but but but, so can I just step in here and