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Jason Lee

We live, literally, on the Euro Velo 1 international cycling route. We see cyclists passing by daily.

According to Apple Maps app, there are no cycling routes anywhere near us!

Basically all of the EV1 follows the main roads, same as 📷 1 & 3 below, yet…

Apple’s Maps app showing 2 possible routes for driving and the approximate travel time. This route includes / is the Euro Velo 1 cycling route, but wait for it. See screenshot number 2.
Same map as first image, but with Cycling selected instead of by car. The map remains blank between both destinations on the Euro Velo 1.
Same map, start and destination points, this time with Walking selected. The map shows you a couple of route options, which are basically Car routes along the main road with a couple of diversions where you can go on smaller roads and or a couple of trails. Time and distance to walk are included. You literally can’t walk safely out of an village on route. No pavement or off road route.
Overview of Euro Velo 1 showing the route from Norway, down over and through the west coast of Scotland, onto Ireland around the coast west from north to south, over to Wales and UK, then onto France, Spain and Portugal. This route is not on Apple’s Maps app. Nor are any other directions or measures for cycling.
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Jason Lee

You’d think a bike route would be ‘easy enough’ to include, especially when it follows the car / walking routes & has it’s own way markers.

But no.

Apple’s Maps app has long been flawed. But offering nothing where something exists is quite an achievement.

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Jason Lee

This 200 meter stretch of cycling infrastructure doesn’t even feature on Apple Maps.

Both directions, the entirety of our cycle lane infrastructure in one photo.

That’s it for at least 100 km & this bit isn’t even on the EV1, that diverts around ‘back lanes’. 🤣

A road going up hill. On either side a 200 meter cycle lane. That’s it. All of it.
Two Euro Velo 1 signs at a junction, ninety degrees to each other. Behind it you see the main road that leads up the hill to the 200 meters of cycle lane shown in the first photo.
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Jason Lee

@adamrice maybe so, Adam.

However, they can calculate walking time & distance + same for cars. All pretty much follow the main road or backroad routes around here.

We literally cycle the same routes.

The basic distance & time for cycling are all they need to accommodate. They have the ‘button’ for it.

Adding EuroVelo or other mapped cycle routes can stilled be rolled out.

They also have their EU headquarters ~100km from here.

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Jason Lee

@adamrice I only discovered this recently enough, curious of the time it’d take to cycle the route a friend was driving, with Apple’s Maps on.

Seems like a big functional omission in 2024.

For anyone interested, EuroVelo is available on and uses Open Street Maps (also used by Strava & Komoot amongst others).

en.eurovelo.com/

en.eurovelo.comEuroVeloEuroVelo is a network of long distance cycle routes connecting and uniting the whole European continent.
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