Why am I not able to route?
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I'm making a route near two parks. I can route via the first park's internal lane but when I put in a control point in the second park along its lane, nothing happens. I tried it with RidewithGPS and had the same issue. The map lines appear to be the same. Is it possible that the route in the second park is not considered suitable for bikes?
I'm new to creating routes, so any advice would be appreciated.
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Hi Thane, Your assumption is right and this is one of the possibility why you are not able to create the Route as per your preference. Our mapping is also based on OSM and If you see an error "Unable to find route data for these points”, it could mean the OSM data for cycling is not available for the Dashboard to suggest a route.
Here is the OSM link of the map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/614555240#map=17/40.76733/-73.94078
You can suggest changes in OSM but the time that it takes to update the changes is unknown. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/11.25214/76.22711
The below link could be helpful for you to suggest edits on OSM:
https://learnosm.org/en/beginner/id-editor/ -
I have not used the Hammerhead Dashboard to create a route(yet), so I can speak on the RidewithGPS part. I found two tips that seems to help.
1) When I am creating a new route, I also open satellite view of Google maps. Very helpful sometimes, especially when determining the bike friendliness of some roads.
2) I have run into similar issues going from "A to B". Most of the time, I will just manually form a route and occasionally, you have to "make a path"-manually draw a line or lines-to connect a route. Routing programs-Strava, RidewithGPS, etc-are great but they are not %100 accurate and probably never will be.
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