[Routing] Ferry routing

[Christian Vetter]

Hi,

The ferry line itself should always be tagged with route=ferry.
Furthermore the end point have to be connected to the road network,
i.e., sharing at least one node with a highway=XXX tagged way. It
shouldn't matter whether the end points are tagged with ferry_terminal
or not.

Best regards,

Christian Vetter

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:35 PM, James Hiebert <james at hiebert.name> wrote:
> All,
>
> I live on an island in British Columbia, Canada, and many routes that I want to take are going to cross a ferry at some point.  I've been having problems routing over ferries with routing servies (Cloudmade or Open Mapquest) who use OSM.  Oddly it seems to correctly route over ferries attributed with route=ferry, but not ferries where the end points are attributed with (presumably correct) amenity=ferry_terminal.  Which is correct?  Is there a bug in the routing, or should the ferry routes/terminals be attributed differently?
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~James
>
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