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How are you guys setting up Osmand for bike navigation? Especially within a city I have the feeling it always gives me suboptimal ways. I only want to use cobblestone roads if absolutely necessary, I only want to use parallel streets if there is no dedicated bike path on the main road. In both cases I only find options with a too one-sided option.
Truthfully, I usually double-check with Strava heat maps to see where people are actually riding...
Bike navigation is unfortunately not good on osmand, and it's only slightly better on google maps. I'm also looking for something good there.
I’ve found it to be pretty good in my area although I did have to tweak the cycling profile to avoid unpaved, otherwise it really like to take me down out of the way gravel paths.
There’s a fair amount of customization …
Including surface types such as sett and cobble
That Osmand ain't good might have to do with the OSM map quality in your area.
I have been using Osmand with brouter as the routing engine, brouter plugin is available on f-droid. You can try out its routing for example on bikerouter.de, top left gives you a bunch of profiles to choose from or even edit them to your liking. Maybe you can find something that works better for you.
I am very happy with it.
Then just ignore its directions when it leads you away from the main road, it can't know every preference you have for every street. I'd guess generally you'd want it to not use main roads if there are alternatives.
Also maybe have a look if one of the brouter profiles may work better for you, maybe the road bike profiles keep you off the cobble stones, there is a brouter plugin for osmand on f-droid.
In my city? Really great, since people ride a fair bit here and there's a lot of protected and off-road routes that are correctly labelled. I have my settings set to choose a slightly longer route, instead of just the fastest. If I remember correctly, there were also settings for whether on/off road directions are preferred. I'm pretty much kept on bike paths all the time
I don't use navigation in the areas with cobblestone paths here though so can't comment on that.
For the bike map view I've enabled the clock widget, speed widget, and track recorder widget, as well as a shortcut to quickly toggle it on. I set it up about 2 years ago when my bicycle computer was stolen, haven't changed anything since.