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[–] [S] 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

To be honest, I find Google Maps pretty poor for cycling even in Australia. For some of the same reasons they're bad in the Netherlands. A high tendency to send you on busier roads (though here that means actually dangerous, rather than just a bit uncomfortable and noisy), and not really understanding the difference between an on-road bike lane, a dedicated bike path, and a quieter bike-friendly street.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I haven't found anything that doesn't require lots of manual routing.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    My go-to is Ride With GPS. It gives you the ability to do manual routing if you want it, and frankly I usually do use that, but its defaults are a lot better than Google.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I've used them as well and the automatic routing is not so good. I can put 2 points 3 feet from each other and it will route them around a 2 mile detour randomly.

    I use my self-hosted Wanderer now.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I can put 2 points 3 feet from each other and it will route them around a 2 mile detour randomly

    I had that happen to me with Google Maps walking directions recently. I worked out pretty confidently that the reason was because Google thought it was a one-way path, because the detour would stop happening if I swapped the start and end locations.

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