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How to prefer designated cycling routes?

4 Feb 2022
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Is it possible to prefer designated cycling routes when planning a trip?

Consider the following scenario: I want to go from Rostock in Germany to Berlin. Both cities are on the Eurovelo 7 route. Obviously, there is a shorter route, and cycle.travel will find this shorter route. If I want to go mainly on EV7 I have to add many vias so the route is on EV7.

Is it somehow possible to tell the routing engine to prefer designated cycling routes and only leave them when the alternative is way longer or impossible? Or s a feature like that planned?

Best regards and thank you for the awesome website!

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Fri 4 Feb 2022, 15:02

cycle.travel doesn’t have a feature to do that directly, but what it does have is an (expanding!) library of EuroVelo and other signposted routes, ready-made for you. So you can open one of them, and all the via points will be in the right place already.

It’s at cycle.travel/browse or you can click ‘Browse all routes on a map’ from the ‘Route guides’ menu. The routes are also listed at the bottom of the route list page, cycle.travel/routes. EV7 in Germany is one of them so hopefully that’ll do the job.