<div dir="ltr">> Exists for areas of concrete too<div>Yes true, including car parks which usually don't have footpaths.</div><div><br></div><div>> I think if you tag an area as pedestrian, or as steps .. routes will not go across them. </div><div>Did you mean to say will or will not go across them? And how would you tag an area as "pedestrian"?</div><div><br></div><div>Sounds like the general consensus is that routing is "broken" and we continue mapping as you'd expect, and there are no real good workarounds.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:48 AM Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div class="m_-1528363543574122568moz-cite-prefix">A 'well known' routing problem. <br>
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      Exists for areas of concrete too ... I think if you tag an area as
      pedestrian, or as steps .. routes will not go across them. <br>
      For an area of steps the bottom, top and sides can have ways that
      are paths ... that gets around the routing issue. <br>
      In the longer term routes should solve the problem .. they don't
      see it as an urgent issue as there are not many people using
      pedestrian routing. <br></div></div><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="m_-1528363543574122568moz-cite-prefix">
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      On 01-Feb-18 01:45 AM, Jonathon Rossi wrote:<br>
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        <div>It appears that this is a long standing enhancement request
          for GraphHopper:</div>
        <div><a href="https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/82" target="_blank">https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/issues/82</a></div>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:17 AM Jonathon Rossi
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          <div dir="ltr">To clarify, both Google Maps and Strava routing
            can't do this either, I was trying to work out if OSM could
            do this.</div>
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            <div dir="ltr">On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:10 AM Jonathon
              Rossi <<a href="mailto:jono@jonorossi.com" target="_blank">jono@jonorossi.com</a>>
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                <div>In the past I've mapped exactly what I've surveyed
                  on the ground in local parks, however I've recently
                  been using the OSM routing feature rather than from
                  other services and I've discovered it can't route
                  directly across a park that is just grass.</div>
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                <div>In the following example, I've mapped:</div>
                <div>- the short grass track (eastern side) that council
                  are likely inadvertently making each time they bring
                  vehicles through the gate to mow the park (the rest of
                  the park boundary has timber bollards),</div>
                <div>- trails that lead from the Greater Glider
                  Conservation Area out into the park, the small bit of
                  the "Trail Circuit" in the park isn't actually a well
                  defined path it just opens up but it isn't grass and
                  the amount of trees keep it path like</div>
                <div>- other well formed paths that lead out to roads</div>
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                <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=-27.54259%2C153.22173%3B-27.54227%2C153.21904#map=18/-27.54200/153.22056" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=-27.54259%2C153.22173%3B-27.54227%2C153.21904#map=18/-27.54200/153.22056</a>
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                <div>The OSM Wiki states:<br>
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                  <div>> Ways (highway=path or highway=footway)
                    leading into a park from a road, should always be
                    connected to the road for routing purposes. It's
                    debatable whether they should connect to the park
                    area with a shared node, or cross over the polygon
                    without connecting. TODO discuss</div>
                  <div>> (<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=park" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=park</a>)</div>
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                <div>If a park is just a big grass area (with maybe a
                  few obstacles like a playground) then it feels like
                  the responsibility of the routing engine to just do
                  this (maybe with an access tag to say it is okay to do
                  so). It feels wrong for us mappers to map a "grass"
                  path through the park from each entrance that we feel
                  is a main thoroughfare.<br>
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                <div>Am I missing something, have others "fixed" this
                  problem elsewhere?</div>
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                <div>Jono</div>
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