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[โ€“] Aibo1@ani.social 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I just want a map app that understands the dedicated bicycle lanes in my country and does not recommend insane unsafe routes because it assumes I'm in a car. I have tried comaps and organic maps but I always need to like try out the routes myself first to find a good route.

[โ€“] GoldenFigApple@feddit.uk 13 points 6 days ago

It's actually quite a hard problem for OSM community to solve since you need quite detailed data (stuff like road surface, width etc) and possibly traffic data. Even then, that doesn't tell you everything like whether it's a "nice place" to cycle or is dangerous. There are people trying to work on it but it is a hard problem. One can hope it gets solved.

[โ€“] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Itโ€™s definitely better than Google Maps, which tells me to cross a roundabout on foot โ€“ even though thereโ€™s actually a path just for pedestrians a little further on (I think? Iโ€™m not even sure if itโ€™s officially recognised by the city lmao)

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The blue route is the google maps suggestion, the green one is the safest one that everyone takes, The roundabout is also part of a ring road .-.

[โ€“] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do those apps not have separate car/bicycle modes? Osmand does

If they do and the paths are still wrong you might need to tag them correctly on OpenStreetMap.

[โ€“] Aibo1@ani.social 18 points 1 week ago

They do, but the routes are rarely optimal for cyclists. Or sometimes technically legal to ride on, but if you know the place in real life you know some of the roads are less than ideal for cyclists.