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A small detail, as I just stumbled across: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/48859716 is marked as `motorroad=yes`, i.e. a highway with motorway-like restrictions, but cycle.travel suggests it as cyclable. It's no doubt a tunnel many Berlin cyclists would love to zoom through one day (and, anecdotally, the fine for cycling on a motorway in Germany is lower than riding through a pedestrian zone), but apparently the routing engine simply missed that tag? :)
Hi Richard,
cycle.travel has been an indispensable tool for our route planning far and near – thank you so much for creating it! – but recently I've ended up on far more "rough" roads here in the German capital than before.
Berlin has an awful lot of side streets with often terrible-to-ride cobblestone surface (commonly tagged by our local OSM community as either `cobblestone` or, more commonly, `sett`) and, as far as I recall, cycle.travel used to indicate those streets as dashed and routes on them in green as compared to the solid line and blue which was a pretty reliable indicator when planning rides on the 16-inch Brompton. Unfortunately, this seems to have changed with a recent software update?
For example, road https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/147563892 is still marked as dashed and green, whereas https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/101290094 has a solid line and delivers blue routes – both streets have the same painful Berlin-style cobblestone surface that most serious cyclists here try to avoid at all cost. The difference appears to be that the former is tagged as `cobblestone` (which cycle.travel indicates as "unpaved road", when I click on a via point) while the latter uses the `sett` surface tag. Similarly, street https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/35134787 is displayed with solid line and blue, while in reality it is a cobblestone surface with egg-shaped, rounded nature stones that look like they've been there since Prussian times and is essentially unrideable for anything but a mountain bike with suspension; it is accordingly tagged with `unhewn_cobblestone` in Berlin's OSM lingo.
Is this change to the rendering of `sett` surfaces (and maybe `unhewn_cobblestone`, but I cannot recall had that ever been rendered differently before) intentional or a software regression? I am of course very much aware that a global renderer will never be able to take into account all local specialties (including local OSM tagging flavours; I wouldn't even be able to speak for Germany at large, as I only know the OSM tagging practice in the Berlin/Brandenburg region), but could you maybe take a look whether this is an intended change or an accidental side effect of other updates?
Thank you very much, and please let me know if I can assist in resolving :)
Best,
// Sebastian
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