We are about to launch a new feature to consider conditional restrictions. Working with conditional restrictions is extremely complicated. Therefore, we had to cut some corners to provide you with a way to consider conditional restrictions at all.
The current feature can be used like our avoidances, so you can enable/disable it. This still allows you to plan your summer rides during winter. You can enable to avoid seasonally closed roads. Kurviger will then avoid roads that are currently closed and might be closed over the next couple of days. This means if there is a weekend closure, it will be avoided during the week as well. There is no option to select a day or date. This is a technical limitation and cannot be easily changed. At some point we might be able to further improve this, but not in the near future.
Conditional restrictions in OSM are unfortunately a bit chaotic and not always entered. Kurviger should recognize most restrictions in OSM. If you find a case where you know the road should be currently closed, but Kurviger is not avoiding it properly, it might be that the conditional restriction is not tagged, please first check if it’s entered properly in OSM. You can have a look at the OSM Wiki on how to do that. Otherwise please let us know.
This feature is still in early BETA.
The feature is not yet visible, but you can use it with this link, showing you how the Kesselbergstraße is avoided. You can change the waypoints to check other roads in your area as well. We are planning to release this feature as experimental BETA feature over the next weeks.
There are two use cases where this feature will be especially helpful.
- Avoid motorcycle restrictions on the weekend
- Avoid road constructions (please note that these are often not tagged, so we will have to work together and tag them if we find them
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Please let us know what you think about this feature and how your first tests went.