Round trip suggestions

[nrenner]

Automatically generate circular route (loop) suggestions for a given starting point and desired route length.

Potentially with some additional constraints like ascend/difficulty.

I'm collecting links I come accross:
Round trip suggestions (brouter-web Wiki)

Would go well with #258 Consider surroundings
See also brouter-web#236 Plan a round trip - allow loop

[danielfilho]

Maybe one solution would be to add a "next stop" in the same location as the starting point. It could potentially solve this.

At least this is what I do manually when I want a round trip. Just my 2 cents though, thanks a lot for the effort :)

[EssBee59]

Very good suggestions!
I am very interested in 2 new functions:
-penalty points for routes with noise (traffic)
-plus points for pleasant routes (green, sights etc..)

[afischerdev]

As we are nearly ready with the 'dynamic range' (#747) we could now offer a simple round trip logic:

From the starting point there is a direction and a distance, this will generate two additional points +/-, say 20 degrees from the direction and then routing can continue as normal.

[devemux86]

@afischerdev This is very nice!

Do you mean it will require the dynamic range?

And it will generate beelines at the via points?
This may not be desirable to users, as these points are not user-defined.

[afischerdev]

@devemux86

Do you mean it will require the dynamic range?

Yes, I think so, when point is more then the usual 250 meters away from a way.
But no beeline generation, just find a point.
After first generation a routing client could offer the two via points for moving.