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by Symbiote 888 days ago
I tested with London to Paris — if it's easy with your routing system, you should add the Channel Tunnel as a fake road. I'm not sure why it chose a ferry so far off the shortest route.
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Currently, it uses OpenStreetMap routing.Planning to change to the Google Maps Routing API.
Check the prices on that, it can get exorbitant
The site could probably charge extra for better quality results.

Perhaps they could split it into a free version using open street data, and a paid version with actual transit routes and other relevant data (tunnels could be marked as 0% sun coverage if they are able to find a data source for it)

Both sides are pretty good for being well shaded from the sun, in the Channel Tunnel, in my experience.
The routing takes the Portsmouth-Cherbourg ferry, which is not the way any bus would go. They take either the Channel Tunnel, or one of the shortest ferries like Dover-Calais.