*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 and it just selects the nearest way as the start/end point of the route. This leads to a slightly odd route sometimes. For example, zoom in on the north end of this route: http://open.mapquest.com/?le=t&hk=4-FQcACEdy&vs= Obviously the better starting location would be where the footway intersects the building outline on the south corner. That intersection node is even marked with building=entrance. Perhaps explicitly mapped entrances could be taken into account by the routing engine? Another route where this would help: http://open.mapquest.com/link/9-Xhit54ly The route takes you right past a door on the south end of Anderson Hall in favor of the walkway end point that is closest to the building centroid. Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
