New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
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Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#2Wonderful. I'd really like these same features in Waze and Google Maps - if it means I can avoid having to cross a busy intersection that's not a 4-way stop, and reduce stress and increase safety, I'd gladly accept a route that's a few minutes slower.
Anyone from Waze or Google Maps team here?
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#3If use_roads is set to zero, will this optimize for roads that include sidewalks?
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#4Is there any way to see a demo of this algorithm for a route of the user's choosing? I'm not familiar enough with San Francisco to evaluate the improvement mentioned in the blog. If I could try some routes in Atlanta, however, I'd get a better sense.
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#5If use_roads is set to zero, will this optimize for roads that include sidewalks?
Likely not as many (most?) sidewalks aren't officially open to bikes (Regardless of enforcement on the one hand and regardless of some people preferring to use them on the other).
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#6Is there any way to see a demo of this algorithm for a route of the user's choosing? I'm not familiar enough with San Francisco to evaluate the improvement mentioned in the blog. If I could try some routes in Atlanta, however, I'd get a better sense.
The routing engine in general is available as an option at openstreetmap.org:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_bicycl...
I checked the request, the JS powering the OSM feature isn't sending the parameters so they are probably the 0.25 defaults there.
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#7Wonderful. I'd really like these same features in Waze and Google Maps - if it means I can avoid having to cross a busy intersection that's not a 4-way stop, and reduce stress and increase safety, I'd gladly accept a route that's a few minutes slower. Anyone from Waze or Google Maps team here?
Yeah, this is a serious problem with Google Maps directions. They want to send cyclists down the fastest routes, which are usually the least safe routes. There's a route in Kent, WA that Google was recommending that was downhill on a 45 MPH two-lane street with no shoulder or dividers. Meanwhile, about a mile further south there was this safe, car-free route that wound through residential subdivisions.
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#8If use_roads is set to zero, will this optimize for roads that include sidewalks?
I'm guessing it will optimize for dedicated bike paths since you shouldn't be riding your bike on the sidewalk.
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#9If use_roads is set to zero, will this optimize for roads that include sidewalks?
I'm guessing it will optimize for dedicated bike paths since you shouldn't be riding your bike on the sidewalk.
If we added bike lanes to sidewalks rather than roads I think it would solve a lot of the complaints motorists have.
Re: New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
#10Wonderful. I'd really like these same features in Waze and Google Maps - if it means I can avoid having to cross a busy intersection that's not a 4-way stop, and reduce stress and increase safety, I'd gladly accept a route that's a few minutes slower. Anyone from Waze or Google Maps team here?
Yeah, this is a serious problem with Google Maps directions. They want to send cyclists down the fastest routes, which are usually the least safe routes. There's a route in Kent, WA that Google was recommending that was downhill on a 45 MPH two-lane street with no shoulder or dividers. Meanwhile, about a mile further south there was this safe, car-free route that wound through residential subdivisions.
Not just for cyclists. Around here Google Maps will find "shortcuts" through single track back country roads which are especially dangerous in winter by car or bike.