Closed roads not recognised/ avoided?
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Hi everyone, I'm new to MRA and excited to try it out. One thing I noticed is that when I set up and tried out a nice twisty round trip local to where I live in Brussels, part of the route generated took me on a road that is closed for works, and has been for a long time (it is also shown as closed e.g. on Google Maps). Is this normal that MRA doesn't avoid closed roads? Or can I somehow get MRA to generate routes that avoid closed roads? Thanks for any help anyone can offer!
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@Stuart-Rutherford With a Gold RoutePlanner subscription you can turn the traffic layer on in the overlay maps. My example shows slow moving traffic on the roundabout (red). If the road was closed it would show a black line. But road closures will only be shown if the HERE map has the information for them. Sometimes this is slow to arrive and sometimes it doesn’t arrive at all!
Always willing to help if I can.
Triumph Tiger 1200 XRT fitted with a Quadlock mount for IPhone 11 and using MRA Navigation. I also have a TomTom Rider 500. (In the cupboard now) Cardo Scala Packtalk Bold. -
@Stuart-Rutherford, I have been on a trip to Oostwinkel, near Gent, last weekend, and noticed the same thing. Twice I faced a long-term closure due to mainenance, but it seems that Belgian road owners don't share details with the map creators much... By the way, both times I was able to continue by steering my motorbike over a bicycle path or short piece of grass
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@Nick-Carthew Thanks a lot Nick! I'm a gold subscriber, so I went in and had another go at creating the 'scenic route' with the layers you mentioned. I noticed that the 'traffic info' tick-box only appears if you go into create route (and not on the quick 'create scenic route' option. But even when I created a route with 'HERE' map and the traffic info box ticked, it still didn't know the road was closed. I guess the map info is not up to date, but I'm a bit surprised as its a fairly busy road, which has been closed for months. Anyway, I'll keep playing around with it and seeing what solutions I can find! Thanks again!
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@Con-Hennekens Thanks Con, indeed, looks like map info isn't updated very often in Belgium
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@Stuart-Rutherford What is often updated in Belgium? Their roads need an update for the past decade
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@Nick-Carthew Hi again Nick, I looked more closely, and indeed you're right, there is a black line next to the blue route line showing the closed part of the road! But the route still takes me that way - now I just have to work out how to get the route to work around it - probably i need to add and move way points, but I still have to work on learing a bit more how to do it all - thanks again!
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@Corjan-Meijerink said in Closed roads not recognised/ avoided?:
@Stuart-Rutherford What is often updated in Belgium? Their roads need an update for the past decade
Ha ha
That may be true but let’s not single out Belgium for having poor roads. The UK has its fair share of potholes and non existent diversion signs as you will remember from our recent Wales tour. And of course a fallen tree. I was very disappointed that the tree was not indicated on the HERE map 
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@Stuart-Rutherford said in Closed roads not recognised/ avoided?:
@Nick-Carthew Hi again Nick, I looked more closely, and indeed you're right, there is a black line next to the blue route line showing the closed part of the road! But the route still takes me that way - now I just have to work out how to get the route to work around it - probably i need to add and move way points, but I still have to work on learing a bit more how to do it all - thanks again!
Yes, unless the full closure details have been lodged with HERE mapping and they update their map the routing algorithms will not know that the road is closed. The traffic overlay is seen in real time and is a useful feature for Gold subscribers.
You can either re-route around the closure or remove any route points within the affected part (to save skipping them later) and allow the local diversion signs to take you around it. Personally, I would re-route. -
@Stuart-Rutherford said in Closed roads not recognised/ avoided?:
Thanks Con, indeed, looks like map info isn't updated very often in Belgium
or anywhere else for that matter.
I just drove through Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Italy and France.
Conclusion is that many (and I really mean many) speed restrictions on TomTom or Here are incorrect. Funny(?) side is that Here and TomTom are often wrong in a different way.
And I got one case in France where a sign on the left side on the road said: 30km/h, with another one on the other side saying 70 km/h and a big 50 painted on the road itself. I kick myself for not going back and take a picture.
