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?
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/
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 :-/
Are these AAA routes designated somehow on OSM?
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
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.
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!