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Feature request: highlight route type when hovered over

Thursday 21 August
by Jack H
in forum cycle.travel
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As a user I would love to be able to hover over a route type, ie. "Paved Road", and all of the paved roads show up on the map highlighted in some way or another. 


Currently a user can click on the route and it'll iterate through the different paved roads, but i'd like to be able to see them highlighted all at once. 

BTW - is any of cycle.travel open source? I am a developer myself so could probably have a go at implementing this. 

Thanks!

Comments

Sat 23 Aug, 20:49

Jack, I'm not sure I understand what exactly you're asking.

If you want CT to suggest a route (ie you have no specific destination in mind) we can use the 'Suggest a ride' feature. In conjunction with 'Paved' it will only offer paved options. We can also adjust the distance to suit ourselves. Just make sure that your start point is on paved!

 Usually CT will generate up to 3 options. Often by re-hitting 'Suggest' we can get more. 

If you're asking to only show all paved roads in a region I can foresee issues where a section is not defined as paved in the underlying data. Is the road shown minus a section (for example a bridge, a ferry crossing) or is the whole road hidden? What scale is the user looking at? At a distance a road may look complete leading to a surprise. 

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