Avoid Dual Carriageways

[Ian Montana]

Hi - I'm plotting our Euro Tour for this year and I wondered if there was an easy way in MRA to avoid dual carriageways and motorways. I've been using shaping points but there must be an easier way ?

Thanks

[Erdna]

@Ian-Montana Cheers,

did you try these options?

[Ian Montana]

@Erdna Hi - yes I did but the routing always chooses dual carriageways as the fastest route

Thanks for replying

[Con Hennekens]

@Ian-Montana, then set the route optimization to shortest (car mode only I believe). Still no guarantee, but it will not be chosen for being the quickest way. You will need to add more waypoints on none dual carriageway roads to prevent them.

[Ian Montana]

@Con-Hennekens I found a solution - change the map to open street map then choose avoid highways and it works - then go back to goolge maps and all good

Thanks for all the comments

[Con Hennekens]

@Ian-Montana, You need to consider that Google Maps is just a map overlay, it is not a map that routing is based on. Besides, not all dual carriage roads are highways. Especially if you are navigating with the MRA app you will be better off using the HERE map (in the top menu, not the layer tile). Shaping points ARE the answer...

[paul69]

@Ian-Montana

hi @Ian-Montana

just a point to note, if disabling dual carriageways was an option, in some regard this may cause problems.

A dual carriageway can sometimes be only 100m long, i.e. to make a junction safer better traffic movement etc.

so on a lovely windy road you are tootling along and then all of a sudden you must drive down narrow country lanes full of mud and cow sh*t just to avoid a small section of that particular road.
just a thought.

[Lynchy67]

@paul69 said in Avoid Dual Carriageways:

all of a sudden you must drive down narrow country lanes full of mud and cow sh*t

Personally, I love those types of country lanes.

[Con Hennekens]

@Lynchy67, yes me too, except for the mud and cow sh*t