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why the GPS is completely useless when cycling on roads ?

lorenzo_maula2
1 month ago

a road bike is supposed to bike on a road (and yes, sometimes, they are cars on these roads). Apparently, Garmin does not want you use any roads where there is the possibility to have cars and guide you through impossibly small roads that even experienced VTT owners are afraid to use.

Completely useless

  • 0 1 month ago

    We had another user with this problem and it turned out the their local roads were marked as "not for cycling" on the OpenStreetMap. If you can be more precise with your location and give an example then it might be possible to better determine your problem. 

    In general I do not have any problems with my Edge routing me along roads with motor vehicles.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to druidh

    Hello, thanks for your reply. I live in Switzerland and ride between Lausanne and Bern

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to lorenzo_maula2

    Could you post an example of a route where Garmin has taken into the "wrong" roads/tracks? It should be possible to determine whether roads being avoided have incorrectly been tagged "not for cycling"

  • 0 1 month ago

    How about enabling heat map routing? I don't know if that's a U.S. only setting.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Dave
    Dave said:
    How about enabling heat map routing?

    That is what  the existing “popularity” routing does but not too well as its routes can be unnecessarily long?

  • 0 1 month ago

    Personally, I just wish there was a way to disable routing on to the multi-use pathways. It seems that the routing has a preference for routing on to anything that is mapped a path / mutli-use path / or cycle route. And as a result of this, it can and will make a route longer if it can route you on the path. In general, I would not have a problem with this if these were exclusively cycling ONLY paths, but where I live these are normally mutli-use pathway that have speed limits of 20km/h and on hard rides I am doing over 40km/h at times, so the paths not not desirable for me.