We sorely need this for cycling. Komoot is the closest thing but it doesn’t do mileage requests like your app here.
This is awesome!
EDIT: In addition to optimizing for green routes, optimizing for low speed car zones would be a killer feature.
This is awesome!
EDIT: In addition to optimizing for green routes, optimizing for low speed car zones would be a killer feature.
The routing algorithm does already prefer roads with low speed limits, but there is definitely more that could be done in this space (e.g. a slider to set a preference to avoid higher speed roads). It also depends on the availability of speed limit data (I use the OpenStreetMap database).
Thus, a lot of route creation is dependent on hyperlocal knowledge. Strava Route Builder, with the heatmap, goes fairly far on this, but it too isn't the best.
This is a really hard problem to solve.
I tested it with your app and the route is near identical to what I've figured (over the course of several thousand km's of trial an error).
I'm amazed!
Edit: I'm usually on a mountain bike.
I’d like to do a dirt/gravel profile. Main reason I haven’t so far is that it’s very hardware-intensive (as in tipping over into renting another Hetzner box).
I usually tend to export routes and navigate with komoot. Komoot for long distance planning is terribly slow as soon as you hit ~200km+.
btw: in general Komoot is a nicely polished app. I can only recommend it :)
Besides large response data and a slaggish planning interface @ komoot: try routing from northern Italy to Sicily: Komoot doesn't seem to know the ferry departing in Villa s. Giovanni to Messina. Komoot will always - no matter how may vias you place - route you back north and send you on a ferry in Salerno. Yes, I know, I could split my route and such. Yet, I love the idea of my planning tool to show me the complete route - including official transportation ;-)
And thanks for building on top of it and making a useful app :)