Re: Worldwide routable Garmin maps: URL REMOVED

Normal style-file can't provide good pedestrian routing, because the "pedestrian" setting on Garmin GPS is simply not working like people expect it to work. What it does is simply allowing more ways (like footways) to be taken into the routing, and not respecting oneway streets or turn-restrictions. It does not change the priority - meaning speed and road class of ways however (or incorrectly). Therefore a highway will still be prefered over a footway if they run side by side even though you switched to pedestrian routing in the menu setting.

To get proper pedestrian (or also bicylce, mountainbiking, hiking) routing you have to change roadclass and speedclass so that it fits the user class and use the GPS in Car/Motorcycle setting cause that's the only one that works correctly. (maybe emergency does work nicely too, I'm playing around with it). You therefore have to exclude any motorways or trunk roads from the routable types.

Difficult solution for a problem that seems simple. But as Garmin didn't think alot (because they don't offer any maps that provide pedestrian routing - the routable topos produce crap routing) when designing firmware of units and maps we have to go this way. This also means I switch maps when I change from mountainbike/hiking to my car to get back. Because a map suitable for hiking can't work for caruse. I'm trying to get my maps working good for bycicling too - but that's not easy.