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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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[โ€“] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea what aaa routes are, but i really like brouter for planning at home, there's also a plugin for osmand on android, so i can use the same profiles. Routes way faster than the osmand internal engine too.

You can manipulate the profiles yourself, i have never done it though. There's a whole lot of profiles to choose from, i usually use the og trekking one and sometimes the gravel beta one.

[โ€“] villasv@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AAA = All-Ages-and-Abilities. In Vancouver it almost always is a protected bike path, but in theory it also includes off street bicycle paths (like the Stanley Park seawall, I think). Meaning, the really nice lanes.

Tried brouter, really liked it! The no-go circles is way faster than adding hundreds of "Avoid road" markers on OsmAnd! Thanks :-)

Edit: spent two hours customizing BRouter's routing algorithms with my own cost factors based on OSM cycling related tags, it's now working like a charm without me having to put a single no-go zone! Thanks again for the recommendation!