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Website, map update

After the last map update, something weird is happening. 
In the last two years, the situation around Nunspeet station (Netherlands) has changed dramatically. A tunnel has been built under the railway for car traffic, and a bicycle/pedestrian tunnel has been created. Many of the intermediate phases were processed on OSM, and CycleTravel always knew the correct route. The work is now more or less complete. And CT's routing for cycling is not correct. The route still runs as it did until a few weeks ago, partly on the old cycle path, partly on a temporary path.
See route: https://cycle.travel/map/journey/796589

Between the red lines, the tunnel.

When I zoom out, suddenly the cycle tunnel disappears, and the old cycle tracks appear. And the route (according to the map) is correct.

The cyclepath until a few weeks ago.

To check, I checked with OSM, and it seems OK. But I'm no expert.

Also checked what RideWithGPS does. And there the route is correct.

So it looks like there is something wrong with CT's update. It's also not clear to me whether it's something that only happens here, or whether it's something that happens more often with major infrastructure changes.

Peter

Downloading route

I have never had any problems with downloaded routes from CT. My default routine is to download a route and open it in Garmin's Mapsource. Very old-fashioned, but that must be due to my age.

Today I made a new route: https://cycle.travel/map/journey/754856

The file is not recognised by Mapsource. Now there is a work-around via gpsvisualizer.com, but it was not necessary in the past.

Download and elevation profile

I have a long route. Split into 44 segments of about 50 kilometers.
I want to download all segments as gpx tracks including elevation.
Some tracks do not give an elevation profile when I ask for it. Downloading the track then also does not work.

Tracks where it works fine:
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/533571
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/533562

Tracks where it goes wrong:
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/533574
https://cycle.travel/map/journey/533574

Peter

splitting routes

I made a long route, over 700 kilometres. There are about 90 markers in this route.

https://cycle.travel/map/journey/627320

I split this route into 12 days. In 11 of the 12 days, no markers are present. In one day, however, a marker is visible. If all markers had been included in this day, there should have been 9. 

https://cycle.travel/map/journey/627325

Questions: do markers have to be included when routes are split? I don't mind if markers are not included, but it doesn't happen consistently.

Strange behaviour of planner

That the phone is not the right device for planning, I know.

But I am on the road, and have to change my route by necessity.

While I'm at it, weird things happen. I modify a saved route, and route points remain. I even suddenly had two starting points on the screen.

I close a route, and the waypoints remain visible.

A modified route, saved under a new name has gone wrong. The modified route shows 2 starting points and 2 end points.

https://cycle.travel/map/journey/584247

Working on Android phone

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