Richard, I am wondering how often your routing algorithm updates information from OSM. Some months ago I added a road and a bridge to OSM (both had been in existence for years, but not shown on the map). Now, if I try to use it on cycle.travel, it's impossible (the route takes me 3 miles round to an alternative bridge). It's a really good route for cyclists because it avoids a busy A.30 roundabout.
If I try to route on Viewranger, or MapMyRide, or Google. it lets me use the bridge. It's at 50°07'51.6"N 5°30'26.2"W (Longrock, about 2 miles East of Penzance - see 'missing bridge' route).
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cycle.travel usually updates every month or so – see cycle.travel/map/info for the latest date.
In this case it's a different issue – the bridge was tagged in OSM as a track, but cycle.travel won’t route over tracks in the UK unless it’s explicitly marked that bikes are allowed. (This is to avoid it sending you along private drives, forestry tracks etc.) I’ve added bicycle=yes to the bridge and it’ll show up next time I update the data!
Thanks Richard.
I didn't mark it as bikes specifically allowed because the bridge itself has a 'No Cycling' sign, so officially we need to walk across, but since the OSM specification is 'Cycles allowed' I guess it's OK (we are allowed to push cycles across). But presumably in other cases a 'no cycling' sign would prevent you from routing there? Just trying to get it right next time I update OSM!