I live in a small town that is getting grown over by suburbia. The routes ignore all the nice open farm fields to the east of me, and runs me down the busiest streets through some of the most dangerous intersections in my entire state, just to skim by the edge of a park in the city.
In that same 6 mile distance, in addition to running past the farms, it could have run me up to the base of the mountains, down the nice bike trail that goes through groves of trees and open field, then back home.
This is one reason I love testing apps like this - my town almost always messes them up.
Would you mind sharing the name of your town? Feel free to email me directly if you wish, contact details are in my profile. It could be that OpenStreetMap data (which I use extensively in the algorithm) isn't very detailed for your area, but I'm keen to investigate further.
I don't mind sharing the town - Spanish Fork, UT 84660
Especially check out the east side of town, it seems like it wants to go into town for anything short of a 15 mile loop, whereas going east is far more natural.
It's not finding any green 'features' in the vicinity (I know, the mountain range off to the east would beg to differ...), so it's falling back to guessing a direction in which to head. I can see that the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest is tagged properly in OpenStreetMap though (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3502235), so this should be something I'm able to improve on. Thanks again for your feedback!
In that same 6 mile distance, in addition to running past the farms, it could have run me up to the base of the mountains, down the nice bike trail that goes through groves of trees and open field, then back home.
This is one reason I love testing apps like this - my town almost always messes them up.