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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 24, 2022, 10:26 by f@zz.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 10:41:09PM +0200, Raphael wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div>Hello everyone<br></div><div><br></div><div>I recently got lost with OsmAnd because it wanted to guide me by car<br></div><div>along a (public) footpath (highway=footway) tagged with acces=yes. Is<br></div><div>this a routing or a tagging error? That is, does access=yes on<br></div><div>highway=footway mean that the footpath is open to all vehicles or that<br></div><div>only pedestrians are allowed?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes thats correct. <br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">it is very technically true, but <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">- it is an unclear tagging (it is unclear whether it is wide enough to fit car)<br></div><div dir="auto">- it is a poor tagging for ways accessible to all vehicles - it is almost certainly<br></div><div dir="auto">rather highway=track or highway=service<br></div><div dir="auto">- it is terrible tagging for public footway (as this tagging technically allows<br></div><div dir="auto">cars)<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is also a poor routing as it is basically always mistagging and mapper<br></div><div dir="auto">almost certainly meant "public footway" not "open to all modes of transport"<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(have you checked is it reported by your favorite validator? If not, maybe <br></div><div dir="auto">it is worth proposing to its authors. Also, Osmand likely should not treat such<br></div><div dir="auto">tagging seriously)<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>A footway has implicit access tags mentioned in the wiki. The moment you<br></div><div>start tagging "access=*" you widen up the access restrictions.<br></div><div><br></div><div>IMHO access=* on highway=* is broken in 95% of the cases.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">access=private / access=no is often correct<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">though basically all access=yes on highway=footway is wrong<br></div> </body>
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