OsmAnd has the annoying quark of suggesting that I drive off my retaining wall, through some woods, and then across some wetlands, in order to get to the road behind my house, rather than directing me down my long driveway to the road a little further away. This is because the driveway is marked as private in the OpenStreetMap data, because it is private. Obviously I know to just go down my driveway, but anybody trying to get directions to my house would be sent to the incorrect road behind it and then just abandoned. I contacted the OsmAnd folks and was told it was an OSM problem. But other apps using OSM data don't have this issue. I gave up with OsmAnd after that.
replyYou might get better results with `access=destination`.
replyhttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:access%3Ddestination
Settings > Driving > Navigation settings > Route parameters > Allow private access
replyNow you'll be routed through private roads anywhere. It should ignore the private flag if it's directly adjacent to the start or end of a route.
replyI use osmand for privacy but I think it just emphasises main roads. In Melbourne it always suggests turning off cemetery road west because it doesn't know it's congested and will get me stuck for 20 minutes. And there are some missing slip roads. And navigation constantly fails to start. I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data?
replyTo solve the problem for yourself, you can also long press a road you don't like and select Avoid Road.
reply> I wonder, how difficult is it to make minor edits to the map data?
replyThe map data is OpenStreetMap, so you can make edits via the standard OSM methods:
It's just OpenStreetMap, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/How_to_contribute
replyIf you lower max speed for your chosen transportation method osmand will alter your routing very significantly
replyI mean, sure? But I don't do that. For city driving OsmAnd makes a sensible route which sticks to main roads whereas Google Maps was getting so bad me and my wife stopped using it because it's choices were bafflingly weird, and would do things like "make 8 turns down residential streets, then obviously make a turn across the busy 4 lane main road you could've already been driving on".
replyGoogle Maps for whatever reason routes like a residential street and turn can be negotiated at exactly the speed limit the whole way through.
Not only annoying for the driver, but also for the residents.
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