Love the idea especially for when on holidays or in another town! I live I a very green environment and the maps generated are quite often 'wrong', that is not even near the routes I would suggest. Preferring urban areas to non-urban areas and seemingly not knowing of major walking paths in the forests nearby. The Strava map seems to know those paths, but OSM probably doesn't. Anybody know where I can dive deeper in OSM to find out what's going on?
An example: my neighborhood is surrounded by a free laying cycling and walking path. Perhaps diametrically only 30m-100m from houses, but 100% green and rustic. Then the mapper plots a route on sidewalks in urban areas. It did recognize the no. 1 park around though. But I'd hope it would get the woods as well.
Thanks! My suggestion would to start out by checking out your area on openstreetmap.org for two things: Firstly to check to see if the trail you refer to is shown (it should show up as a yellow dashed line if it's a trail). Secondly to see if the woods are shown (this should show in a light green shaded area). Trail Router uses the presence of woods as a hint to prefer paths. Both of these items are surprisingly easy to edit on OSM.
An example: my neighborhood is surrounded by a free laying cycling and walking path. Perhaps diametrically only 30m-100m from houses, but 100% green and rustic. Then the mapper plots a route on sidewalks in urban areas. It did recognize the no. 1 park around though. But I'd hope it would get the woods as well.