Colorful routes can conflict visually with colourful maps, therefore
having an outline to make the route stand out more makes sense.
However, using black results in very high contrast levels, which can
become distracting in itself. By using a dark gray, this should look
much more balanced, while still fulfilling the original purpose.
Currently it is a bit difficult to guess the slope of the route for
planning purposes, since even for routes in very hilly terrain the
colors hardly change. Only extremely steep hills are indicated,
and there is no visual difference between going uphill or downhill.
By cutting off earlier, more of the route will show meaningful
differences in color. Note that BRouter's gradients are already
averaged compared to the maximum gradients shown on road signs, so 15%
should be a good compromise (anything steeper is difficult to ride on
for longer periods anyway, and rightly deserves to be colored with an
alarming red).
By using different colors for the min and max parameters, uphill and
downhill sections should now be easy to distinguish.
By introducing two more color stops, the gradient becomes much smoother,
with flat sections featuring a distinctive green, where they were drawn
in a muddy dark green before.
Note that this approach had been implemented like this in QLandkarte GT
for several years now, with great success.
The privacy link now is relative to the site that it is hosted on
When opening the about page at brouter-web the privacy link left down in the corner is a relative one to https://brouter.de/privacypolicy.html. When running an own instance I think it should link the that page, because the operator could have other terms, for example time for saving logs. So you shoud change that to a relative path to /privacypolicy.html so every operator can have another text.
You could also include a standard privacypolicy.html and put it to /brouter-web/privacypolicy.html so it can be customized if needed.
- Waymarked Trails z18
- German Style URL without "tiles/osmde" path
also getting:
- Hungary hiking with new URL and now as overlay
- CyclOSM production URL
- make icons a bit smaller
- also results in better vertical centering
- round icon too small for 3 digits, multiply width by digits
- increase opacity a bit for better readability
