[Routing] Ferry routing

James Hiebert james at hiebert.name
Thu Jul 26 17:41:04 BST 2012


So I fixed the pier issue (added highway=residential) on the map yesterday (before the OSRM update), but it still won't route across this particular ferry (I seem to have fixed the mapping problems w/ most of my other regular ferries).  Here's the one hold out:
http://map.project-osrm.org/ZM

Am I missing something?

~James

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:37:55AM +0200, Christian Vetter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If there is a pier present, then your ferry route will seem to start in the
> > water. So maybe you should solve that on your side, as I would also be
> > inclined to map a pier when one is visible on Bing.
> 
> In my opinion, if you can drive onto the pier, it has to be tagged
> with highway=XXX to be routable by car.
> 
> Otherwise, how can a router know whether you are allowed to drive onto
> the ferry?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Christian



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