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Can unpaved roads be more clearly marked?
Recently I've led rides that included riders with cruisers or road bikes not happy on gravel roads. Even though "avoid unpaved roads" was selected during route planning, the routes included significant sections of gravel roads.
In addition, sometimes riding on unpaved roads in unavoidable even when "avoid unpaved roads" is selected. For instance if route start or stop or via point is on an unpaved road.
I've learned from this forum that the current map source data sometimes lacks information on whether a road is paved or unpaved, and that this issue will be less of a problem when you update the map source data. That's great news as this issue is my biggest problem with Scenic.
Is it possible to see unpaved sections of a route ahead of time? Alternatively, can there be a notification during the route planning process that a route includes unpaved sections?
Thanks, love the app!
I'm afraid that not possible. At least not at the moment with the current map provider. That provider only takes this 'avoid unpaved' as an input parameter. I can not query the map data on the type of roads in the route, nor the type of roads on the visible map. With the new map provider in Scenic 3 this might be possible, but I have not looked into that yet. If it is, I'll definitely be adding it (because you are not the first one asking and I clearly see the added value in this).