Hello dear LGs,
I’m here, again, with my problem: adding a bike trail.
Every quarter I come back with this “problem” and I keep trying but, as usual, my work is rejected.
At this point … maybe this (what you saw in the video) is not a bike trail. Is there and CM that can ask to a “higher level”?
This is the place where you can see, and maybe try to add, the bike trail: here
Thank you for your interest.
Marco
It is very interesting @MarcoDavoli, there are many new bike trails in the surrounding area where I live. Would you please advise me how to add them? Thank you so very much!
Radwege zufügen ist mir bisher unbekannt @MarcoDavoli ?
The process is really easy @Erna_LaBeau .
You simply start as per editing / drawing a new road. When you have finished choose, as Road type → Biking / Walking trail; then submit.
Really easy.
If you look at the picture there are two white like: one is thicker (and is a road) and a second one that is really thin. When you see a thin withe line that is a “Biking / Walking Trail”.
Hope this is useful. If I miss something let me know.
Ciao and take care.
Marco
Grundsätzlich ist das sehr wohl möglich @Annaelisa. Man erstellt ein “Straße” und wählt als “Straßentyp” dann Rad-/Fußweg:
As far as I can see, that bike lane has the same trajectory as the road it is next to.
Perhaps, as a condition for it to be accepted, the trail should at least partially follow a different trajectory? Mere speculation on my side…
@MarcoDavoli @WilfriedB @JanVanHaver @Erna_LaBeau
Ich habe es zuerst so verstanden, einen Radweg als Ort auf Google Maps zufügen und nicht das Einzeichnen eines Radwegs.
Ich denke so wie Jan, wenn der Radweg als zur Straße zugehörig erscheint, es problematisch ist. Man könnte dann ja auch sämtliche Bürgersteige neben den Straßen zeichnen.
Ciao @MarcoDavoli
I have escalated this already a year ago, and I will escalate it again because I believe that bike trails are helping a lot a green mobility.
Personally I believe Google Maps should give them a higher priority because, especially inside a busy city, they can really help a lot of people to better move.
At first my feelings was that the trails are very close to the roads, causing the AI to interpret them as a duplicate of the street, but after that I tried to add several of them, well paved and well visible from the satellite, and they were rejected too.
Thank you for raising that issue again
As you said, @MortenCopenhagen, we are doing speculations because we do not know the “conditions”.
Like @ErmesT wrote:
here, where I live and where I’m trying to add biking trail, few years ago the city had built many Kms of new biking trail and differents that are connecting to Milano (2 Km north).
I’ll keep trying in different ways: short trail, long trail etc… we’ll see.
Thanks a lot for your input.
Take care
Ciao
Marco
Hey @ErmesT how’s going?
Thanks for “escalating” the problem. Maybe one day we can have / know rules or an editing manual.
I do believe that AI can do a great job but, we know, it works on statistic… and talking about numbers:
analyzing the activity of 42325 LGs we saw that the 0.026% is responsible of 66.8% of the added roads. (without considering that 3 of us are doing nearly 50%)
Do you think this percentage is enough for someone to feel it’s worth their time to respond?
Always confident in a reply to yours escalations.
Thanks for your help
Ciao
Marco
Hi @MarcoDavoli, good news: I as able too a very first part of “your” biking trail:
Starting in the North in the middle of Via Martiri Cefalonia towards where the red part of the biking trail starts:
For what i see that approving an adding a biking/walking road is totally randomly. Sometimes a trail is clearly visible but added road is rejected, sometimes trail is under the trees is approved.
I also see, we can also add crosswalk in the same way, as biking/ walking trail. And of course, approving is totally randomly.
ohoh @WilfriedB , what a good news!
So if you try to extend to south I’ll try north.
Let’s see if now that you plant a seed we are able to grow a tree.!
Grazie
Take care.
Ciao
Months ago, when you asked for this before, I tried many times without any success, but further South. We sill see, the next 10 meters are pending …
@MarcoDavoli recent I saw an article about Google map improving the details of the roads, by adding multilayer like pathway, sidewalk and similar. I think this feature once beta tested will be love for all the places. I don’t remember if it was a tweet or somewhere else, will try to share the link here ..
You are doing an amazing thing. Pls keep contributing hopefully this feature might get you a solution.
sound like a great news @MathanVibranarayan !
Please let us know if you find more informations about this “multilayer”. I know that in other map editor allow to add more details.
Really interesting.
Waiting more news (hopefully)
Take care
Marco
@MarcoDavoli the additional few meters onto the red path have been accepted within less than 12 hours. Now, I added another little piece and also one going North form the middle of the street.
I saw that you did many sidewalks, @WilfriedB .
Instead my work has been erased. There is no trace left.
Never give-up. I’ll try again.
Ciao
Marco
@WilfriedB the small section seems to have vanished!
small addition, or some of it is still pending 
Thanks @Steve_UK, I noticed it yesterday, but couldn’t believe it. Those pieces had been accepted a week ago or so and disappeared yesterday.
While it is “business as usual” when a vast number of road edits is rejected sooner or later, I never experienced or read about, it was deleted several days after approving.
To me, this sounds like a systematical flaw.
@DeniGu, @ErmesT and @MarcoDavoli any ideas? I do have all mails when those parts were accepted.
