# Gravel portions with profile road bike

**URL:** <https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015>\
**Category:** directions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015 "2020-08-12T06:29:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/gegeweb/32/1543_2.png) [@gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/gegeweb)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015/1 "2020-08-12T06:29:47Z")

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Hello,

has anything changed recently (about a month) in the route calculation algorithm (road bike)?  
Or is it coming from the OSM data not being up to date for the road surface?

Because recently I’ve edited several routes with my editor based on the Openroute API and the road uses gravel portions that are difficult to ride with a road bike (route in France).  
I have updated the OSM data for some of the sections used.

Apart from that, it works very well and Openroute is the most efficient routing service I’ve tested and use.

Thank you for that!

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**Author:** ![amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/amandus/32/669_2.png) [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015/2 "2020-08-12T11:41:28Z")

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Hi @gegeweb,

The best source of information for changes regarding the backend and the API is the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

It might have to do with [#665](https://github.com/GIScience/openrouteservice/issues/665)

Best regards

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**Author:** ![gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/gegeweb/32/1543_2.png) [@gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/gegeweb)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 6:06am UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015/3 "2020-08-31T06:06:37Z")

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Hi, thanks for the reply.

Before these changes, I recorded a track with the points (recommended, cycle route) for which the calculated routes between the points were indeed the desired route:

> **[SCASB - Calcul Itinéraires](https://parcours.scasb.org/?parcours=43-1)**
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> Carte interractive de calcul d'itinéraires cyclables

But now I have to move some points.  
In particular n°7 and n°17. For the 17, the right and main road is “Ave de Nozay”.  
The shotest way “Chemin du Collège” is good for mountain bike, but not cycling road wich will always take the main road.

 ![Capture d’écran 2020-08-31 à 07.50.37](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/uploads/default/original/1X/6d611a77a4fbb4bd4b571f5da60f98d8a3cd66a3.jpeg)

 ![Capture d’écran 2020-08-31 à 07.51.55](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/uploads/default/original/1X/1b1d4d25721814893504a813beb9db8e736649a4.png)

And bettween 7 and 8, I need to move the 7 for taking “Route de Rambouillet”

 ![Capture d’écran 2020-08-31 à 07.56.11](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/uploads/default/original/1X/e5852e09728fa14937a873cd5789d10c4f9d280b.jpeg)

 ![Capture d’écran 2020-08-31 à 07.57.20](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/uploads/default/original/1X/0b838422c1c2f758174ce75d9e8a066bda8a03d4.png)

The good tracks need to be now:

> **[SCASB - Calcul Itinéraires](https://parcours.scasb.org/?latlngs=48.675120,2.299240%7C48.685124,2.257519%7C48.683736,2.229238%7C48.684813,2.205377%7C48.675207,2.181129%7C48.669900,2.145940%7C48.675547,2.050495%7C48.702631,2.033930%7C48.691810,2.016249%7C48.690479,1.975136%7C48.674541,1.961875%7C48.673294,1.973333%7C48.646350,1.968184%7C48.647485,2.041483%7C48.664154,2.011013%7C48.667498,2.065258%7C48.654005,2.081223%7C48.647088,2.154522%7C48.644224,2.232499%7C48.655910,2.242240%7C48.664400,2.215510%7C48.679854,2.232113%7C48.677927,2.273483%7C48.684614,2.279577%7C48.675120,2.299250&profile=cycling-road)**
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> Carte interractive de calcul d'itinéraires cyclables

It’s like keeping shortest and not recommended.

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**Author:** ![gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/gegeweb/32/1543_2.png) [@gegeweb](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/gegeweb)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/gravel-portions-with-profile-road-bike/2015/4 "2020-09-13T16:37:16Z")

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For the portion of road at Marcoussis (91,FR), I updated the OSM data. It is explicitly forbidden to cycles.

But the “recommended” algorithm was much better before merging with “faster” and it’s removal.