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by snthd 490 days ago
>It would be VERY cool if gravelmap let you input a start and end point and gave you a best route suggestion.

This is exactly why gravelmap and googlemaps isn't cool - the data is siloed.

When the data is open people can build their own routing engines:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...

B-router is good, but like all of them, constrained by data quality:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BRouter

https://bikerouter.de/ is running brouter-web and has some gravel routing profiles installed. The FFMbyBicycle profile has an experimental car-avoiding option.

The new b-router support for pseudotags looks useful (PDF) https://brouter.de/essbee/infoPseudoTags.html for tracking rivers and avoiding paths adjacent to roads.

Another way of looking at the data with Overpass Turbo: https://little-maps.com/2022/03/05/planning-a-gravel-ride-th...

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Overpass Turbo rocks for custom maps! There is market for a user friendlier version of it, though.