What the route is made of: kinds of road, gate tags, and stops on a scenic loop

The desktop planner now says more about the route it drew: which kinds of road make it up, what OpenStreetMap records about each gate on it, and how much of a loop rides the same road twice. The scenic loop gains fuel and food stops.

Kinds of road

The Surface badge in the route briefing still gives the unpaved share. Open it and it lists the kinds of road the route rides, most kilometres first: track, secondary road, main road, service road, residential street and so on, fourteen kinds in all, each with its kilometres and its share. The lines add up to the whole route. A 100 km loop from Siena is about one part track in seven with dirt-first off, and more than half track with it on Strong.

A gate's tags

Each gate in Gates and access now says what OpenStreetMap records about it, in words, with the tag itself beside each line: a lift gate, motor vehicles private, locked, a seasonal rule and its months. The words are for reading; the tag is there to check against the map or copy into an edit.

Ridden twice

A loop's verdict lists how much of it rides the same road out and back, the figure each loop card already showed. Around Bergen a 100 km loop can ride a third of itself twice; around Siena the loops usually stay under a tenth.

Fuel and food on a scenic loop

The scenic loop has a Stops row under the places: Fuel and Food. Stops are listed apart and never take a place's slot. For each direction around the start you get the one about halfway out, where a break falls on a loop, not the forty restaurants nearest the square you start from. It is the rider app's rule, so the phone and the desktop offer the same stops.