Route violation

[Mike wiruth]

Hello, I'm wondering if when you are designing a route, will it warn you if the route you design goes against your avoidances you have selected? For instance "unpaved roads" I recently designed a route and had chosen to avoid unpaved roads. When on the route, i turned a corner and a warning came up on my phone saying route violation. Maybe this already is something you can see on the routeplanner, if so, I missed it. If not, it would be cool if you chose a route that violated your choice of avoidances, that it would warn you, or color the route red or something. Please help as I don't want this to happen again as I was leading a group ride and it's an unpardonable sin, lol, to lead others down gravel when on Harley's and Goldwings.
Thanks for your help. I love the app.

[Con Hennekens]

@Mike-wiruth, no, currently there is no warning in the web-planner. But of course you can use different map-layers to check the roads you will ride. Also, tricking armchair-riders into a bit of dust is quite hilarious, when not overdone

[Mike wiruth]

@Con-Hennekens Thanks Con

[RetiredWingMan]

@Con-Hennekens I love tricking my HD riders into a little gravel on almost every ride!

[Brian McG]

Hi @Mike-wiruth unfortunately its not something that I see as within MRA's control

The surface condition on a road/track is part of the map data which is supplied the exterior map data suppliers, Here, TomTom & OpenStreetMap, all MRA can do is plot a route relying on that data
I can tell you now that the Here data, which is what MRA use for their navigation app, is by far the worst for routing down unpaved tracks, taking shortcuts where roads don't even exisit, even when there are perfectly good roads that are just a little bit longer/slower nearby.

The only way I think you can reduce the chance of such surprises is by switching between the routing profiles/& the overlay maps, & by comparing the different paths each profile generates
I find very often the Here routing profile will route down a path, which when inspected by viewing the OSM overlay map, it turns out to be designated as a track & not a road at all

If your using an XT as suggested by your signature that will introduce a whole level of other surprises, I found after 2 years of meticulously careful planning could I prevent it from doing something completely unexpected