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Unpaved roads
Hi all
When creating a curvy route there’s an option for avoiding unpaved roads.
What if you would want the opposite? I would like to avoid paved roads.
Sorry, there currently is no ‘prefer unpaved’ / ‘avoid paved’ setting. Scenic is dependent on its routing providers for these settings and they currently don’t offer this. Once they do I will of course add this to Scenic ASAP.
That sounds awesome! But I guess I shouldn’t hold my breath since that would probably be a very low priority for the providers.
Quote from Guido on April 19, 2020, 14:31Sorry, there currently is no ‘prefer unpaved’ / ‘avoid paved’ setting. Scenic is dependent on its routing providers for these settings and they currently don’t offer this. Once they do I will of course add this to Scenic ASAP.
Hi again.
I don't know who your map providers are but there is atleast providers in Sweden that provide unpaved data.
Like this page:
https://esrisverige.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e42ce6a4916442a894a929f85e36675e
All orange roads are unpaved according to that map.
Yes, there are a few maps that can display unpaved roads on maps, but you need the routing algorithm to take 'road type' into consideration when they are calculating a route. There are routing providers that can avoid unpaved roads, but I have yet to find a provider that has the 'prefer' unpaved roads option.
I'm not sure how difficult this will be for a provider to make, but I can imagine it's not technically difficult, but the quality of the data might be very difficult. You would need a provider that know all dirt roads... and then you'd need to be able to know which dirt roads you can and are allowed to go on, and which you are not. This also depends on your vehicle type (adv bike, trail bike, mountain bike, walking). Not saying it's impossible, but the data collection is 'challenging'. A lot more challenging than the data collection for paved roads. I imagine that's why this has not been done yet (that I know of)
Ah, ok.
There is a whole lot more to this that I’m unaware of it seems 😉
Thanks for the fast response