How to deal with Ferry crossings in creating a route?

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Alexander van den Dobbelsteen

• October 04, 2022 13:55

Hi Hammerhead,

I was sent a GPX-file with a route that crossed a river by a ferry.
The moment I changed one waypoint on that route, the HH Dashboard changed a large part of the route ignoring the ferry crossing.

But I want to use that ferry.

So, how can I do that?
As far as I know, there is no setting for selecting "ignore or use ferries", right?

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  Michiel

  • October 04, 2022 15:15

  You can add a route point in the middle of the ferry crossing, that should typically force the route to use the ferry. Like:

  

  When importing a GPX file this may be somewhat harder to do...

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  Anna Ronkainen

  • October 04, 2022 21:20

  Yeah, the dashboard still seems to give ferries too much of a route penalty to use them unless there really are no other alternatives even if that results in a loooong detour.

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  Ali

  • October 05, 2022 10:37

  Hi All, this has been fixed at the backend, but has been planned to be released with the Map update in the next quarter.

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  Gary Mcclelland

  • January 26, 2023 22:25

  I was beating my head against the ferry crossing issue earlier this week.  And it is now the next quarter.  Any update on when this will be available?

   

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  Ali

  • January 27, 2023 03:28
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  Gary, the fix had been provided backend in the Aug of last year, and was eventually rolled out with the Maps update on December 15th software release. Please make sure you have updated the maps and the software on your Karoo 2. If you still see issues, please share the images and errors with us in an email to support@hammerhead.io

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  Gary Mcclelland

  • January 27, 2023 04:17

  ok, will send images.  There is a ferry in Newport Beach that Google knows about but doesn't show in either Hammerhead or RideWithGPS

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  Anna Ronkainen

  • January 27, 2023 11:32

  You might want to check on Openstreetmap.org to see if it is in the map data in the first place (and add it there if you can figure out how).

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  Anna Ronkainen

  • January 27, 2023 11:46
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  Oh, and the dashboard route algorithm is still giving ferries a massive penalty:

  

  

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