New Feature: Avoid snapping to motorways

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We are happy to announce that it is now even easier to avoid snapping to motorways or tunnels. If you read this blogpost, you already know that “street_hint” can be used to improve and control snapping. However, some use cases do not allow using “street_hint”, but still require that deliveries are not mapped to motorways or tunnels. You can now configure this for the entire problem. It is as easy as specifying this:

"configuration": {
    "routing": {
      "snap_preventions": [
        "tunnel", 
        "motorway"
      ]
    }
}

The following road link types can be avoided: motorway, trunk, bridge, ford, tunnel, ferry

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Here is an example. You can play with this in our route editor. Note that markers in the route editor are now draggable. This makes playing with this example a real pleasure.

{
  "configuration": {
    "routing": {
      "snap_preventions": [
        "motorway"
      ]
    }
  },
  "vehicles": [
    {
      "vehicle_id": "v1",
      "start_address": {
        "location_id": "13.801231_52.467833",
        "lon": 13.801231,
        "lat": 52.467833
      },
      "type_id": "my_type"
    }
  ],
  "vehicle_types": [
    {
      "type_id": "my_type",
      "profile": "car",
      "capacity": [
        50
      ]
    }
  ],
  "services": [
    {
      "id": "s1",
      "name": "no-name",
      "address": {
        "location_id": "13.821659_52.473846",
        "lon": 13.821659,
        "lat": 52.473846
      },
      "size": [
        1
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "s2",
      "name": "no-name",
      "address": {
        "location_id": "13.810415_52.457270",
        "lon": 13.810415,
        "lat": 52.45727
      },
      "size": [
        1
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "s3",
      "name": "no-name",
      "address": {
        "location_id": "13.795481_52.461088",
        "lon": 13.795438,
        "lat": 52.460873
      },
      "size": [
        1
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "s4",
      "name": "no-name",
      "address": {
        "location_id": "13.794708_52.467729",
        "lon": 13.793678,
        "lat": 52.465893
      },
      "size": [
        1
      ]
    }
  ]
}
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