[Tagging] access tags (was contact: tags)

[SomeoneElse]

On 11/05/2015 09:42, André Pirard wrote:
>
> The problem is that if you don't find a phone number you may miss a 
> phone call but that if you use wrong access or routing tags you will 
> instantly have GPSes send cars, bikes or pedestrian on the wrong road.
> It's really difficult to have it understood that GPS software blindly 
> obeys rules and that tags must also strictly obey the same rules for 
> the GPSes to work.  The many many routing tags errors are a real 
> PITA.  Even wrong instructions in the documentation causing 
> contributors to be misinformed.  Is OSM suitable for GPS ????

Hell yes*  :)

Seriously, I presume that's a rhetorical question.  I've been using OSM 
data in a car satnav (in the UK) for years, and when in someone else's 
car sometimes end up playing the "BMW-vs-Google-vs-OSM-on-an-eTrex" 
game, and (apart from postcodes, which is a different issue to access 
tags) OSM pretty much always wins.  I suspect that that might not be the 
case in e.g. raw TIGER-infested areas of the US, but in the UK and in 
Australia I genuinely haven't had a problem.

Cheers,

Andy

* Sorry, I've been been watching far too much general election coverage 
over the last few weeks.

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