Post · bonfire.cafe

OK OSM people, what's going on here, why is highway avoided so much?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_car&route=57.35616%2C25.89452%3B57.42261%2C25.90441#map=13/57.39237/25.94061

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=57.38379%2C25.95597%3B57.40609%2C25.94679#map=14/57.39217/25.94893&layers=N

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social · 4 hours ago

@richlv 4 min, 2.9 km: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=57.38361%2C25.9558%3B57.40609%2C25.94679

3-4 min, 4km: https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=57.383742%2C25.956118%3B57.40609%2C25.94679

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social · 4 hours ago

@richlv playing around with it a bit: It seems that the time estimate GraphHopper calculates between both options comes out to be virtually identical, but the highway route adds roughly a kilometer to the journey, while saving no time.

Seems like an edge case where the time difference is so low that distance wins out.