http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Off-road cycle route planning? en Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:55:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5139#post-54834 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:13:15 +0000 wingpig 54834@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmm. I just got CycleStreets to use it by picking very obvious start and end points and choosing the <a href="http://cycle.st/j1546097 - Balgreen Road to Trinity Crescent">quietest</a> option... maybe the section-by-section routing algorithm will only use it if it chances upon it, whereas humanbrains tend to think in big purple lines... (as stated above whilst I was fiddling about pasting in the route URL) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5139#post-54833 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:11:24 +0000 chdot 54833@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>CycleStreets quiet routes generally use as many off-road paths as possible but there will be times when the algorithms behind the web site think that some routes may be too much of a deviation even though they may be fine to real people. </p> <p>Of course CS depends on data from OpenStreetMap. If (extreme case) a motorway is marked as a minor road, CS might plot a route along it!</p> <p>I don't know if the WoL path is still blocked around Balgreen (I assume so) or if OSM has the blockages recorded in the current data. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5139#post-54831 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:46:21 +0000 SRD 54831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In response to <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5138#post-54825">query on another thread</a>, I tried to generate cyclestreets routes for Balgreen to Botanics and Balgreen to Cramond, but in neither case did Cylce streets give me a route using the NEPN. Any suggestions / advice? </p> <p>Is it just me? Ie would no one else think that those are sensible routes to do? </p> <p>Maybe Cylcestreets needs a 'leisure cycling' option, along with a 'commute/transport' option. Or one which maximizes off-road? </p>