These directions go through the main road (that actually doesn’t allow cycling!) while it should take (the perfectly suitable) cycleway along that road. It should be like this:
simple answer - cause it’s implemented to do so… I am fully aware, that for road bikes the use of cycle-ways is mandatory in Germany.
If you want 100% legal routing in Germany - simply use the bike profile - have said that, forcing cycleways is in many areas result in “none useful” routing like this one:
The big difference are the resulting TurnInstructions! (and that’s IMHO the most important reason why I use the service )
As a reasonable road bike cyclist (when I am on the bike) I am judging for each road individually IF I will use the regular street - or the cycle way (if present) - and while I am riding and approaching a turn instruction I can transfer quite simple a street-based turn instruction into a cycle-way instruction. I have attempted previously do this vise versa - but failed so many times! - actually that was the main motivation to join the openrouteservice development team…
Please assuming that you are not able to watch the map while you ride - just listening to the turn instructions have to be sufficient to find the right way.
You can perfectly stay on the straight cycle way, but instead of that it takes a strange d-tour through the village which doesn’t make much sense in this case (imho )
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