Westgate Tunnel - Melbourne Australia

Hi,

This is my first post so I hope I’m doing it correctly - please forgive me if I do it wrong.

There’s a new tunnel in Melbourne Australia called the Westgate Tunnel. When planning a route Kurviger seemed to think I could exit the tunnel where I couldn’t. The route had setting for avoid tolls so this may be why it tired to avoid it but I’d have thought it would respect what you can and can’t do. I reduced the route to start at a valid entry and a valid exit and it still tried to exit.

That right turn it says to do (Hughes Street) is when you are still in the tunnel.

Regards

Hello Rick,

Welcome to the Kurviger Forum, and my regards to Melbourne ! This looks strange and is a OSM issued. I am sure one of the OSM Specialists will be check in near future.
Cheers from Germany

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There are currently edits in OpenStreetMap for this new area/situation. Changes are at about 3 days later in Kurviger. My proposal is to be patient and wait some more days and re-check the routing again. I cannot see now why the tunnel is left onto Hughes Street, no deeper check as there are many changes.

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A defined turnpoint ingnores the difference in height between the tunnel and the surface. I’ve corrected it:

Before

After

In few days it should be imported in Kurviger as well.

Nevertheless Kurviger will leave the toll-route as soon as possible if you specify “avoid toll” (your startpoint is already on the toll-route).

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Is this point required or should it better be deleted, and the tunnel connected and not splitted at this point?

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The Westgate Tunnel is marked as tolled,
so the tunnel is exited.

Thanks for yours and everyone’s replies and solutions. I was a bit divided if it may be Kurviger or OSM issue. As pointed out, the tunnel is very new. Planning a club ride with vintage bikes through the tunnels in a toll free month - that’s how I found the issue. Kurviger has worked well for me and does well around Victoria where I mainly ride. Does a good job of avoiding dirt roads of which there are many and means me and my Ducati can explore the more minor roads.

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Maybe that’s right - feel free to do it.

You are right: 2 ways without junction should not have a common node, because a node is interpreted as a junction.
Please see “Nodes on ways” in

If highways or railways cross at different heights without connecting they should not share a node

So I mapped your proposal in OSM.

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