Walking Trails
The way walking trails are currently set up, they seem to me to be designed for circumstances where walking is a necessary part of reaching a destination. This is would be in contrast to walking trails that are purely recreational.
The way walking trails work now is that if a destination is closer to walking trail than a driveable road, waze assumes that you must walk to the destination. The driving instructions are thus given to point on the road network closest to the end of the walking trail.
If the walking trail is very long and the destination is along the middle of the trail, then walking from the end of the segment would be simply too far and the routing server returns "route not found."
Waze is considering changing how the routing server treats walking trails. However, if the current routing continues to be how walking trails are treated, then I think recreational trails should be deleted from map. If we want recreational trails to be on the map, I think we should provide feedback to the developers that we would like the routing server to treat walking trails in a different manner. One option is to not consider a destination as ever being on a walking trail.
The way walking trails work now is that if a destination is closer to walking trail than a driveable road, waze assumes that you must walk to the destination. The driving instructions are thus given to point on the road network closest to the end of the walking trail.
If the walking trail is very long and the destination is along the middle of the trail, then walking from the end of the segment would be simply too far and the routing server returns "route not found."
Waze is considering changing how the routing server treats walking trails. However, if the current routing continues to be how walking trails are treated, then I think recreational trails should be deleted from map. If we want recreational trails to be on the map, I think we should provide feedback to the developers that we would like the routing server to treat walking trails in a different manner. One option is to not consider a destination as ever being on a walking trail.
Re: Walking Trails