Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists

Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists by tasuki on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:50AM (#22942930)

This is great - bookmarked! I see that while it does try to avoid busy roads, it often takes the road that's right next to the motorway (even when not strictly necessary - probably because it's shorter and has little traffic).

It'd be better to prefer roads that are further from busy roads. I understand that's very hand-wavey and probably super tricky to implement.

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Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @06:37AM (#22944142)

It would! As you say, roads (or cycleways) beside motorways are usually short, have little traffic, gentle gradients and often a prized position in a valley rather than lumbering up a hillside. Ideal cycle routes... apart from the motorway a few metres (/feet) away.

I've got a page of notes on possible ways of fixing this - it is a hard problem. One possibility I'm toying with is a massive grid of "scenic value" for (say) each 0.01° x 0.01° square, so I could downrate the surroundings of motorways and uprate routes through (say) national parks.

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Re:Ok Google – it's time you discovered cyclists by tasuki on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:53AM (#22957288)

Calculating "scenic value" sounds like a very good idea indeed! Plus points for points of interest and greenery, minus points for busy roads. Again, I understand it's not easy to implement :)

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