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.
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: 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.