Can I please ask a question purely related to @bikerouter here? It sounds basic, but there are often things I don't understand on the map.

On this screenshot for example, I am about to select the route, coming from the north (in the Durance valley, France), forcing it to follow the veloroute V64/V862, heading south. All well.

But what is the "2" on the more direct route, coloured in magenta, supposed to indicate? Is this also a bicycle route, and if so, which one?
To me, it is often a problem on these maps that I cannot find a proper legend that tells me what the colours and numbers indicate.

Thanks for any help (in English, German or French, it does not matter).

(My currently selected trail is here: https://bikerouter.de/#map=15/44.1223/5.9842/standard,Waymarked_Trails-Cycling&lonlats=5.815909,44.532254;5.781126,44.321822;5.948281,44.187651;5.958023,44.168015;5.972185,44.167614;5.9939,44.158625;5.996518,44.120651;6.023941,44.0964;5.930901,43.959955;5.782647,43.833172&profile=fastbike-lowtraffic, it's work in progress)

@wolfgangcramer @bikerouter

This is a marked cycling route. Looking at this place in more detail on https://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/#route?id=10163060&type=relation&map=11.0/44.0778/6.146 its Tour de Fontbelle.

I suppose that this route is marked with a "2".

Waymarked Trails - Cycling

@Einzigartiger @wolfgangcramer @bikerouter Yes, it's definitely too hard to get this kind of information on some maps. On OSM one can click on "Query features".

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/10163060#map=14/44.12771/5.99510&layers=C

I also find Facilmaps sometimes helpful to see differences between differently rendered maps.

https://facilmap.org/#15/44.1242/6.0029/CycO-Bike

Relation: ‪Tour de Fontbelle‬ (‪10163060‬)

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@openclimatedata @wolfgangcramer @bikerouter

This is "unfortunately" a problem of OSM. Its Database contains so much information that it is hard to decide what could be relevant in special use cases.

Bikerouter offers the ability to jump to the current location in OSM using the links at the bottom right. There you can again use the "query feature" button. If the cycling routes are visible in Bikerouter there is also the link to waymarkedtrails which is the source of those routes.

@Einzigartiger @bikerouter Ah, that's the perfect answer. I had no idea about the waymarkedtrails thing, will take a look.
The fediverse is great, I could not imagine to have exactly the right answer within so few minutes.
Thanks again!

@wolfgangcramer @bikerouter

You're welcome. I love bikerouter and enjoy every new feature of it even though I only use a fraction of its abilities.

The link to waymarkedtrails is included in the copyright-part of bikerouter in the bottom right corner.

@wolfgangcramer @bikerouter

WayMarkedTrails.org was created with the goal to make the various marked routes visible as they are not shown in standard OSM styles even though this information is included in the OSM database since a long time. The site also offers a legend and explanation on how the routes are displayed and how to correct errors in OSM. Also it offers a download of the route as GPX file.

@Einzigartiger @bikerouter Absolutely fantastic, thank you. Too bad that these resources seem to be so hard to find for people like me...

@wolfgangcramer @bikerouter

Unfortunately I don't have a solution to that. This seems to be a problem of many open projects. It develops over years and many people add features or software to meet their needs. The only hope is to spend time using OSM and to ask questions :-)

@wolfgangcramer Hi! There’s a section which describes how one can inspect OpenStreetMap data directly from Bikerouter. Essentially, it works as @Einzigartiger has described.

https://docs.bikerouter.de/en/mapdata-inspect-openstreetmap/

Inspect Map Data - Bikerouter Documentation

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