[Routing] Ferry routing

[Nic Roets]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, James Hiebert <james at hiebert.name> wrote:

> Yes, the route(s) in question are tagged with route=ferry and are
> connected with the road network via one node (on each end) which are tagged
> with amenity=ferry_route.  Now that I'm looking closely at it though, one
> of the routes in question is connected via a single segment way which is
> attributed with (man_made=pier).
>
> way 155099026 (highway=residential) to way 155099140 (route=ferry) to way
> 155366127 (man_made=pier)
>
> I'll add a highway=residential on way 155366127 and hopefully that will
> fix that route.
>
> However, there's another regional ferry route which _is_ connected to the
> road network, but isn't being routed across.
>
> way 5914611 (highway=residential) to way 5918808 (route=ferry) to way
> 5903243 (route=ferry) to way 5904227 (highway=secondary).  An example of
> the (incorrect) route is here:
>
> http://maps.cloudmade.com/?lat=47.835283&lng=-122.426147&zoom=9&directions=48.11213057743938,-122.76045799255371,48.15964474913805,-122.67261028289795&travel=car&styleId=1&opened_tab=1
> Is the problem that there are two ferry segments?  Should simply combining
> them fix the routing?
>
>
Yours/Gosmore takes the ferry. The last update was 28 June.

http://osmu.org/demo/index.html?lat=48.1341&lon=-122.7164&zoom=13&layers=B000FTFTTT&v=motorcar&adj=shortest&markers=%2148.11832%2C-122.76578%2148.17052%2C-122.6757


> Many thanks for the help.
>
> ~James
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:45:14PM +0200, Christian Vetter wrote:
> > 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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Regards,
Nic
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