Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I'm pretty sure of it, and I think that Google uses Location Services on android phones to identify bike trips and flag new routes for human reviews when the "bot" sees some threshold of instances.
They also know it's just you. A way used by one person isn't likely to be considered as public.
They likely have people review the data that they require. That is, there no reason to expect that it's all automated.
Google may get ideas of ways from that sort of data but the data they got initially wasn't created that way.