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In response to query on another thread, 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?
Is it just me? Ie would no one else think that those are sensible routes to do?
Maybe Cylcestreets needs a 'leisure cycling' option, along with a 'commute/transport' option. Or one which maximizes off-road?
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.
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!
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.
Hmmm. I just got CycleStreets to use it by picking very obvious start and end points and choosing the quietest 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)
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