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Routing over tracks that the app won't lock on to.

22 Apr 2022
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There are a number of bridleways and byways in my area of suffolk that the app won't let me route on to. Is there a way of forcing the app to follow a track regardless?

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Sun 24 Apr 2022, 17:57

You can put a via point at each end of the track (disregard the roundabout route for now!), and then click the first one and click ‘Go direct’. That’ll draw a straight line between the two.

Ultimately cycle.travel gets its mapping data from OpenStreetMap, so if there are bridleways/byways that are missing from OSM or incorrectly mapped, it’s worth logging onto OSM and fixing them. cycle.travel will then be happy to route along them next time it takes an update.

Tue 26 Apr 2022, 10:50

Thanks Richard, that's really helpful, I'll give that a go. I'll see what I can do to update OSM too.

Cheers!

Nick