C2C Routing Mysteries and Open Source Route Service

[Howard]

In the latest Club Torque I promised to post a link to the 2023 OSR routing for anyone to try.: Open Route Service

When you click on the link the following page will open:-

Next click on the three horizontal bars in the "Find a Place" box & the following menu will open. Click on the Import File (shown by green arrow):-

Then this menu will open:-

Click on the white box and import a GPX file - one is attached to this message & a series of waypoints will appear joined by a series of straight lines. IMPORTANT NEXT CLICK ON THE RED CAR SYMBOL TO FIX THE  ROUTE. If you don't do this the route may vanish, in which case just re-import  the file and start again. The uploaded route will now display on your screen & can be zoomed right in and the waypoints can be moved by dragging. You can also access the route on a pad or smart phone using the same procedures.

Cheers

Howard

C2C 2023a Mablethrope to Services.gpx

[Jos]

Howard this looks like a very useful routing map but even this produces oddities - when I put it up using your routing the route stop 21 - 20a Cheadle - shows a way point on its own that you go to from and then return to Kingsley Holt. The route is then different to the C2C 2023 until Longton. However it looks like a much easier system to use to plan your route. 

[Howard]

Hi Jos,

I just checked this location and it appears that the level crossing at Blythe Bridge is currently closed according to Open Route Service, so it has taken the shortest alternate route before rejoining at Longton. The One Network road site shows the road as being shut from 23/9 to end of month and Google currently shows all traffic across the crossing as a single track, so probably better avoided right now.

It's always good to hear about problems to understand better how to minimise them in future.

Thanks

Howard