Turn Off Sidewalk Selection on Route Builder

Just an idea: a toggle switch somewhere that allows you to disengage/reengage sidewalks in Route Builder.

Reason: When zoomed out a bit and building routes, I find myself accidentally selecting sidewalks instead of streets. This isn’t always terrible, but it can make GPX files a mess later on.

If no one else has this problem, forget I mentioned it. Maybe I have have fat fingers and a crappy mouse. :laughing:

I have this problem all the time in my hometown, where sidewalks aren’t drawn if you zoom out far enough

Screenshot 2024-09-13 at 10.59.17 AM

But are drawn when you zoom in

I’ve worked around the issue by zooming in before dropping each point, then zooming back out to continue planning/building the route.

I’ll take some time to play with sidewalk_factor and see if that helps…

Update: Changing sidewalk_factor and walkway_factor to forcefully avoid those breaks routing quite frequently. I’m playing around with using auto instead of pedestrian along with options that will keep the route off highways etc…

Update: :thinking: Using auto requires (obviously) a lot of customization (ignore one-ways, ignore certain restrictions, don’t use highways, etc). I’m pretty sure that if I release a version that switches from pedestrian to auto that I’ll be causing problems for lots of people as I work through figuring out more and more customizations that are required to keep things accurate/safe/sane.
I’m going to leave things as-is while I monitor feedback on this post.

Yes, I would categorize this feature request under strictly “would be nice” rather than “crucial.”