[Routing] routing over areas?

[Karl Newman]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi. Just wondering if any routing software yet has started to use areas?
>
> e.g. if one path goes into a parking lot, and another path exits from
> the other side, does this typically get treated as routeable by
> existing software?
>

That seems like the sort of thing that would be ideal for a pre-processor to
do--take a area which is supposed to be routable and create a synthetic
routing node in the middle of the area which simply serves as a connecting
point for all the routable ways which touch the area. It might not look
pretty (if the route is shown driving straight across a parking lot, for
example) but it would get the job done.

Karl
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