Suggestion: Distinguish between paved and unpaved cycleways

[cyclingcat]

Hi there,

I often use Osmand when planning my cycling trips. When using my road bike I try to avoid unpaved roads which is currently impossible with cycleways as they are always shown as a blue dashed line, no matter of their surface. So my suggestion is to distinguish cycleways in a similar way at it is done with tracks, where the paved ones are marked with a solid line and the unpaved ones with dashed lines. For example, cycleways tagged with "surface=paved", "surface=asphalt", "tracktype=grade1" or similar could be shown as a solid blue line, while any other cycleways (including those with no information about its surface) keep their current appearance as dashed blue lines.

This would improve the app a lot for road cyclists as they can use cycleways if they are known to be paved.

The cycling cat

[quax2712]

This problem could be solved by creating a own
render.xml File.
Good examples could be found at
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-resources/tree/master/rendering_styles
I used mapnik and added new display type for all paved good ways a black, blue (cycleways) ore brown (grade2) interrupted line.

modified

OSM Standard

a nother example with some cycleways (blue)

[cyclingcat]

Great to read that this would be possible quite easily. However, I would suggest a similar scheme as the one used for tracks: solid lines for paved cycleways, dashed lines for unpaved ones (just in blue in order to distinguish the different kinds of ways).

The cycling cat

[cyclingcat]

Hi there,

some days ago a fellow road biker asked me exactly the same: "Is it possible to distinguish between paved roads (suitable for road bikes) and unpaved cycling paths with OsmAnd the way it is possible with e.g. agricultural tracks"? So I recalled this issue I opened a while ago covering the same request and it seemed that it would be quite easy to implement... is there any chance that this enhancement will be implemented at some time?

The cycling cat

[mikehgentry]

If cyclosm.org shows what you want, that's selectable as a map source (tile) in osmand. Shame it isn't vector, but it's better than nothing.