# Routing + mapillary coverage

**URL:** <https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271>\
**Category:** Contributing and equipment\
**Created:** [July 27, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271 "2022-07-27T08:34:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![joostjakob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/joostjakob/32/68276_2.png) [@joostjakob](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/joostjakob)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271/1 "2022-07-27T08:34:50Z")

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Hi,  
Thanks to a tweet by MapAmore, TIL that it is again possible to plan a route online while avoiding roads already covered by Mapillary footage. Mind you, it’s not an automated process, just a map overlay.

Go to [https://brouter.de/brouter-web/](https://brouter.de/brouter-web/), click on the map layers button , open the “more” cogs button, and scroll down quite a bit to the Overlays\>Worldwide to active the Mapillary option. Once you did that, scroll back to the top and activate the overlay. Next time you visit the site, you will be able to skip the first step.

The only other way to do something similar that I’m aware of is within the OsmAnd app. There you need to activate the Mapillary plugin to do this. The big plus in OsmAnd is that you have a few filters available.

I’m still missing a feature to use custom filters or the “colored by age” style. And especially practical would be a routing algorithm that automatically avoids roads already covered.

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**Author:** ![koninklijke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/779978/32.png) [@koninklijke](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/koninklijke)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271/2 "2022-07-29T11:22:50Z")

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Dear @joostjakob  
You are aiming high, asking for an algorithm which avoids roads already covered ; my request would be that logged-in Mapillary users can use the filter in Mapillary/app to exclude oldest imagery, then ‘export’ or so the roads not recently covered to overlay the Brouter/web map : that way it’d be far easier to plan a route in my already densely pictured area.

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**Author:** ![timtimtomtim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@timtimtomtim](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/timtimtomtim)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271/3 "2022-07-29T15:40:05Z")

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What I want is a mapillary coverage map that shows the direction of existing photos, maybe by replacing the green circle with a green arrow.

Then I could see which way down the road is needed.

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**Author:** ![filipc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.mapillary.com/filipc/32/1103_2.png) [@filipc](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/filipc)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271/4 "2022-07-31T20:06:25Z")

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Handelsstraat, Korte Zavelstraat, Wilrijkstraat.

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**Author:** ![4004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/bbce88/32.png) [@4004](https://forum.mapillary.com/u/4004)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.mapillary.com/t/routing-mapillary-coverage/6271/5 "2023-06-26T11:15:20Z")

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I’ve revisited this, thinking it might improve my workflow of driving around with the mapillary app open and routing in my head.  
Brouter on its is pretty useless, as it doesn’t solve the travelling salesman problem/stop sorting - I can do that myself.  
I tried Vroom and RouteXL, but without the coverage overlay it’s somewhat tricky.  
My conclusion is to just to calculate short route hops myself