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Hi everyone!

I do some contributions to OSM and wonder why it’s not building “shortest” possible way (marked as green?

Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?

I try OsmAnd+ but didn’t really like it 😥

Upd: Path is diffenetley mapped

Thanks

P.S. The BENCH IS DIFFENETLY NOT ON THE WAY

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[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd say it depends on the heuristic of the path planning algorithm, eg. if road surface is taken into account and the road it chose is asphalt while the other one is dirt then that path makes sense.

What application are you using to find this path? OSM in itself doesn't do path planning if I'm not wrong, it's just the map's structured data

[–] iuvi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, there's a dirt, but in another place not specified , but still, it does not put way... i also selected a line where OSM do lay path on - and it just same as mine 1:1 by parameters

Logic of algorithm quite strange. It's not an option of user somehow? Like i don't mind if there's a dirt, i just want cut my way to get faster from point A to point B