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mcouture on 01.07.2023, 19:28
I used Scenic for the first time on one of my "bigger" rides. 8 days in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
My planning tool of choice is Furkot and I built an 8 day plan and imported into Scenic. While in West Virginia, I ended up creating routes on the fly based on local recommendations.
What I found is routing compared to Google Maps is at times vastly different. Like really really really different. In West Virginia and Pennsylvania I spent all my time "off highway" and alot of time on very back roads. Google Maps would give me good estimates on non-highway roads between cities while Scenic had a difficult time and would never route directly as possible even on "fastest" or "shortest". Again when comparing Google Maps, Google would provide a fastest route, then a backup route that was a little bit slower. Scenic would provide a route vastly longer in mileage every time, even on shortest.
On a day where I just wanted a 2-lane road that was "efficient" and kept me off the freeways, Google option was "avoid highways" and Scenic option was "avoid highways" and "balanced". I had to rely on Google to keep me for example going north-east, while Scenic had wanted a route that went far north then east...like it did not know about the non-highway highway going north-east. I had both running and Google and Scenic would eventually be on the same route, however Scenic would randomly try to route in various strange directions.
I assume this is a (limited) mapping data issue in my area? Is there anything I can provide to help with these navigation "issues"?
I also want to say this was not a huge deal for me in this instance as I was on vacation and exploring and using the GPS to just get to my next destination... and again, I am happy to help in any way to make this better!
** FYI - I do have the downloaded maps
I used Scenic for the first time on one of my "bigger" rides. 8 days in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
My planning tool of choice is Furkot and I built an 8 day plan and imported into Scenic. While in West Virginia, I ended up creating routes on the fly based on local recommendations.
What I found is routing compared to Google Maps is at times vastly different. Like really really really different. In West Virginia and Pennsylvania I spent all my time "off highway" and alot of time on very back roads. Google Maps would give me good estimates on non-highway roads between cities while Scenic had a difficult time and would never route directly as possible even on "fastest" or "shortest". Again when comparing Google Maps, Google would provide a fastest route, then a backup route that was a little bit slower. Scenic would provide a route vastly longer in mileage every time, even on shortest.
On a day where I just wanted a 2-lane road that was "efficient" and kept me off the freeways, Google option was "avoid highways" and Scenic option was "avoid highways" and "balanced". I had to rely on Google to keep me for example going north-east, while Scenic had wanted a route that went far north then east...like it did not know about the non-highway highway going north-east. I had both running and Google and Scenic would eventually be on the same route, however Scenic would randomly try to route in various strange directions.
I assume this is a (limited) mapping data issue in my area? Is there anything I can provide to help with these navigation "issues"?
I also want to say this was not a huge deal for me in this instance as I was on vacation and exploring and using the GPS to just get to my next destination... and again, I am happy to help in any way to make this better!
** FYI - I do have the downloaded maps
