Route Planning with GPS / OSM for Riding and Touring

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boomboom

It's really good @Yemble. Just wondering how much you know about the heatmap parameters? What makes a road red etc? I presume it is in comparison to other local volume as opposed to total volume?

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Yemble in reply to @boomboom

Yep, started in response to a suggestion on twitter. I'm not intending to make it a super routing tool - that's covered by these other amazing websites - but let me know if some tweak would make it more useful or if it has bugs.

@boomboom it's just the heatmap tiles from Strava, I'm not sure what their criteria are ie when the color step-changes. Maybe 50% of some arbitrary gradient, but don't know on what regional scale. I find the color1 scheme a bit intense, some of the blues are easier to work with. Most of the settings are sticky so you don't have to change them every time.

Edit: found this blog post that explains the methodology; sounds like it's counting gpx points and using neighbouring tiles for scale.

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boomboom in reply to @Yemble

Interesting thanks.

One thing would be cool would be able to map OSM POIs onto it (something like this ) and have the ability to select the POIs & download them.

(probably doesn't count as a 'tweak')

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