Autorouting in Mapsource works around 50% better if used via car/motorcycle faster route. Now shorter Distance will actually work pretty well too – especially on longer distances and in combination with mode :bicycle.
Routing using mode bicycle and shorter distance works pretty similar to how mode car/motorcycle and faster time worked before. Faster Time and bicycle does not work well together. Delivery and shorter distance is another pretty nice combination now, whereas faster time and car/motorcycle now really favors cyclroutes and mtbroutes.
Using shorter distance the maximum routable distance doubled more or less. Using faster time, it increased by about 50%. Using mode shorter distance is great if you need to autoroute on etrex / 60 CSx, edge or older units, as it now mostly manages distances up to 20km.
Also Autorouting against the traffic flow (if cycleway=opposite; opposite_track; opposite_lane or on residential and other small streets will now be avoided). And Delivery only avoids Primaries/Secondaries – but does not block them. (this was actually already on last map Update). On top I changed the character set to plain ASCII – meaning no more German Umlauts (produced problems with the address search) and no more ?? questionmarks.
Well, somehow the routing for my test route (Paderborn -> Reelkirchen) got gradually worse with the last updates.
With the 7.12. map a route that should be about 35km long is extended to >100km.
With the map from the week before it was about 50km. This is mostly independent of the routing settings.
Well I changed the settings a bit, now shorter distance can be used quite succesfully (especially with vehicle = “bicycle”). I have some more changes for the next map update – therefore I will adapt openmtbmap.org/autorouting once I push them through (tonight or tomorrow night). Currently especially on the GPS shorter distance works better than faster time (or better said, faster time will now really create scenic rides from A-B whereas shorter distance picks a nice reasonabley nice route).