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App of choice for planning AAA routes in Vancouver? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by villasv@lemmy.ca to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
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I've been going back and forth a few apps. Apple Maps and Google Maps fail me too often suggesting me to take streets without bike lanes. With OsmAnd I'm able to mark a few roads as "Avoid", but I end up marking half my city and sometimes I do need to go one block or two on those streets.

Is there an app that allows me to to plan a route explicitly prioritizing AAA lanes that works in Vancouver?

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[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like Komoot or Strava should work great for that.

If you prefer open-source, I have also had some luck with https://maps.openrouteservice.org/

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Strava helps because I can easily see which paths have lots of traffic and those tend to be AAA or similar, but it doesn't do much more than adding the CyclOSM overlay in OsmAnd. And while I really dig the Route creation & mgmt, that's mostly useful after I already know the route I need. I'll take a look at Komoot and ORS, thanks.

Edit: ORS already got major points for having the CyclOSM layer as well! Still, it doesn't allow me to prioritize AAA routes :-/

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are these AAA routes designated somehow on OSM?

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't say for sure if it's exactly the same, but I'd say it's very close to what you get filtering for highway=cycleway