Hi! I'm with Mapzen. Yes, the default for `bicycle` are now 0.25.
If you're familiar with Leaflet, it's also pretty easy to draw routes in mapzen.js and pass different parameters to the router -- check the bottom of that post.
Wow, first thing I noticed using MapZen is it sends me over a heavily trafficked freeway overpass to my office... when a detour of only a few hundred feet has me going over a very pleasant bike bridge DIRECTLY into my office parking lot.
Will have to check out of the rest of the route vs what Google Maps has me doing now, though. I'm pretty happy with the current route but I'm new to this job so I've got a lot of route exploring to do.
I see it in the pretty pictures when I zoom in. I'm not sure what the colors mean. It's a dashed blue line.
Openstreetmap seems to not be able to find ANYTHING when I search -- not address, not business name. Hell, if I type "google" it comes up with something in Germany. I guess I just don't know how to use openstreetmap.
The OSM search is an address/place look up search engine, not a generic search engine. When you look for "google", you're probably getting this point ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2903635928 ) which is Google's office in Munich, Germany. You'd expect this sort of thing to come up for a result for "google" :)
I am curious what sort of things you're searching for, and what you expect. Perhaps there's ways to fix it?
Remember, Google has considerably more money than OpenStreetMap.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=mapzen_bicycl...
I checked the request, the JS powering the OSM feature isn't sending the parameters so they are probably the 0.25 defaults there.