How 2GIS builds the routes on foot

The basic principles according to which 2GIS builds a walking route between points A and B:

1. The app builds the shortest route through the streets and other places, where, according to our data, a man can go.
2. The travel time is displayed based on the average pedestrian speed — 5 km/h.
3. The route is built considering the pedestrian crossings.
4. Sometimes 2GIS offers to cross the road not at a pedestrian crossing, if a road is not wider than two lanes and there are no pedestrian crossings in a radius of 100 meters.
5. The application avoids gates and wickets with the type of "Service", "By permits" or "Paid" passage and will not offer to go through them, if it knows an alternative option.
6. However, the application does not avoid the lifting barriers and gates, even the paid, service ones or the ones with passage by permits, and will offer to use them if it makes the shortest route.

If you know how to build a better route than 2GIS did it, let us know using the "Inaccuracy in the route" button in the mobile app for iOS or Android — it is situated at the bottom of the card of the created route.