Rounting engine with steep hills

Hello. Firstly, hats off for a superb site and very useful routing engine. We used it in France very successfully over a 500 km touring trip between Auvergne and Périgord finishing in Agen.

However on a few occasions, the routing engine seemed to choose a route on small roads (which we normally much prefer)  but with a number of very steep hills (+140m) , over a (longer + 1 km over 6.4 km)) route with on what appeared on OSM as a major road. The computed time seemed to take only distance into consideration. The longer route was only downhill and obviously that extra km would have been quicker than the additional 140m of elevation. But the main issue was the steepness of the hills. A real pain.

So the request is really to have a routing rule that could take into consideration the steepness of the route and also not ruling out major roads totally when they make sens and it's not long.

I understand this is in reality a complex request, but thought I'd share it anyway.

I think the lesson here is to use tools for what they are and agree, as users, to spend some time to study routes a bit better, using the fantastic tools you provide. In my case, a bit more time spent would have allowed me to spt what we were up to and I could have made the decision myself.

Stations

Hello,

It seems that only the small train stations are made visible on Cycle.travel (in France at least)/

Here is an example: Vias is a tiny stop, and Agde is bigger. On OSM, the first is a "point", the other one (Agde) is a tagged building.

Thanks.

Massif de l'Aigoual from the west

XXL views for a memorable day out in the big outdoors!!

Fantastic loop for medium fit bikers. Experience all what rural France has to offer, far and away from the crowds. Gorgeous perched village, canyons, cool forests, idyllic pond with an opportunity to have a coffee out in the sun. This loop has it all. It's not even very hard because done clockwise, you'll mostly ride uphill in very low grade roads. Hardly any trafic on most of this loop. Good tarmac although not necessarily very flat. But who'd want to race on such a beautiful course anyway??

If you want a slightly more difficul variant, check out the "Lanuéjols variant" which will give event more variety of landscapes as it'll bring you to the causse Noir, a high plateau where you will most likely spot vultures flying above your head.

Lodève Causse Méridional Larzac

Cette route est très agréable mais elle monte pas mal.