I am trying to fix up the 6 short bicycle routes in my city as what is included in OSM is very different from the official maps. I have already added the streets and paths for the first 3 which are what I am focusing and then I’ll do the others.
I am using OSMand+ for testing the routes as I edit them, to get them to work properly in it.
I will focus on route 3 for now:
How does one map a route which follows one road, then does a little loop, then back along that road back to the same start/finish point? OSMand routes from the start of the loop then down the first road.
I have added relation roles forward and backward according to the way directions to code in what direction to go around the loop is.
How should I tag where the route begins/ends, and that the first few roads/paths should be travelled along twice? Do I add each segment to the relation twice?
In a first step, I would have put all relation members in the correct order. For a round tour, the first and last elements in the relation must be the same, namely where the round should start.
Put all relation members in a loop without forward/backward:
Since I’m sure that the loop forms a loop (at least JOSM indicates this to the right of the individual elements as a circular route), I would add forward and backward:
Thanks for trying this out - can you please upload the changes?
I have been scared of JOSM for a while, it’s always been way too confusing and backwards compared to iD so maybe I’ll need to use it, at least for this relation work.