Thanks for your lightning-fast reply! - Content understood.
Analysing and improving the profile would be beyond my "retired IT 
person's" experience.
Do you know who wrote the "River" profile - Perhaps they would be keen to 
improve it?

Does anyone else out there feel like examining this?

Cheers
PaulW
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On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 11:40:58 AM UTC+1, Poutnik wrote:
>
> I cannot say much more. AFAIK it is rather experimental profile and it's 
> setting is simple, probably what is a water object is routeable. Finer 
> details are not addressed.
>
> You can analyze the profile content and aventually improve it by 
> additional logic based on water related osm tagging.
>
> 31. srpna 2016 12:36:01 CEST, 'P Wat' via Osmand <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> napsal:
>>
>> Thank you Poutnik for your input.
>> After some false starts then trial and error, "River" mode now 
>> functioning OK, but ....
>> Some of the routes presented by Brouter-River-mode/Osmand are 
>> un-navigable.
>>
>> For example, checking stretches of the River Thames known to me:-
>> (Pic1) This route is shown going over the weir rather than through the 
>> lock.  51.559888, -0.873266.
>> (Pic2) Shows a navigable route via a lock, not over the weir.  51.567255, 
>> -0.76882.
>> (Pic3) This absurd route is via minor streams and ditches.  Should go 
>> south from 51.432725, -0.515320, not north.
>> (Pic4) = Road map of Pic3.
>> Several similar instances already found elsewhere.
>>
>> These anomalies would make route-planning in "foreign" waters, seriously 
>> flawed!
>> Is this caused by the "River" algorithm?
>> Regards
>> Paul W
>>
>>
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