Google knows a lot, but Googles doesn’t know cycling. Neither their routing algorithm for bikes does any good, nor does Street View offer much more than a car centric perspective to Google’s Earth. But guess what, as much as Google cannot compete with Wikipedia, so much there is no better alternative for cycling (and walking) than the crowed sourced public domain approach. In other words: ...

This happens in real world if you do not connect ways in the Openstreetmap. Photo taken near Sur, Oman. Better resolution by click on photo. All three above photos are CC-BY, please link to this blog-post or mention my blog. Thanks.