Strange routing in Fribourg

Hello!

Yesterday I completed a nice ride from Bern to Fribourg, and realized that cycle.travel has a very strong aversion to a small section (c.a. 30m long), so that it will propose a detour of 4km, 100m  climbing instead. I cannot figure out *why*, and if there is anything that can be improved on openstreetmap to help cycle.travel accept that small route (which is a very nice way to enter fribour, away from main traffic, through a historical gate and with a stunning view on the city...).

Can anybody help in identifiying the issue ? I tried to mark the roads and paths as access:cycle=yes and the gate as open, maybe this will then help?

Thank you!, Cécile

https://cycle.travel/map/journey/564911

forest road closed by a barrier

A month ago, I did a bike tour usind CT for planning and was really stunned by how good the proposed route was! We just faced one challenge: a forest route that started nicely but was closed by a barrier and showed clear "no entrance" signs. As this was not documented on OSM, there would have been no way C.T would know of this. Therefore, I edited OSM changing the type of the road to "private" and adding the barriers. 

 Now that the OSM updates are take over in C.T, I tried to see if I would be directed through a different way, but C.T still wants me to take the "private" section and cross the closed barriers

https://cycle.travel/map/journey/501019

the closed section is between km 5 and 7, and there are barriers at the crossing with D469, which are visible on C.T map

How to know when did the last map update occur?

As I continue editing OSM around my place, and still do not see effects on c.t, I was wondering if there is a simple way for me (besides asking;-) ) to know when did the last map update occur. This would help me deciding if I just need to be patient, of if I need to solve some caching issues on my side :-)

Thanks!

What are the attributes that leads a cycleway to be drawn in red?

Hi all,

I am still trying to improve the mapping of cycleways/routes around places I know.

It is not fully clear to me what attributes are used to decide if a way is represented with a double red line on cycle.travel

on OSM, there is the option do design a line as pedestrian or bicycle and pedestrian; there is also the field "allowed access" which should in principle be used if there is an explicit sign allowing bicycle access, and the tags that contains eventually bicycle: yes, if there is no explicit sign but it is still OK for bicycles.

In some places, the situation is somewhat in between, like it is not really stated that this is designated bike path, but on the other hand this is a road, forbidden to cars and motorcycle which is part of an official cycle route. So it could definitively be represented in double red line.

Knowing how tags are used in cycle.travel would help me chosing the right attributes.

time to see improved cycleways in cycle.travel maps?

Hello!

I like very much cycle.travel for planning trips, ans especially, it is fantastic for optimizing bike routes aside traffic. So I got motivated to try to improve the documentation of cycle ways on OSM. Now, 2 weeks afer my last edits, I do not see them appearing on cycle.travel map displays. What is the frequency of those updadtes ?

Thanks!

Cécile