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Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by moepstar on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:20AM (#27577553)
Installed it and tried some bike route to a nearby place...

It wanted to route me via the normal roads (admittedly low-traffic ones, but still...)...

There seems to be no option for a "scenic route" or even a different one from the single, proposed one?

Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by tasuki on Monday June 21, 2021 @09:30AM (#27578945)
For finding cycle paths and quiet roads, I can highly recommend https://cycle.travel/map - it doesn't find "scenic" routes yet, but I think the author has been planning to add that :)
Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by ehnto on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:49AM (#27578285)
You might try TrailForks instead for biking and scenery. But I haven't seen a map software that does specifically curated scenic routes automatically, that sounds like a pretty hard problem to be honest. How would the map know what is scenic and what isn't?

For those kind of routes I still rely on random blogs or known good directories.

Re:OrganicMaps is Android and iOS offline maps for travel wi... by htamas on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:40AM (#27579626)
For me, switching to bike route mode froze my phone. Not going to use this I guess.