[Tagging] Pedestrian traffic through other areas? (Was: When does highway=footway become highway=pedestrian?)

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

 On Mon, 1 Nov 2021 at 11:56, Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> Vào lúc 01:15 2021-10-31, Martin Koppenhoefer đã viết:
> > pedestrians can walk in any direction and on any side.
>
> Yes, pedestrians have more degrees of freedom than four-wheel vehicles
>
> area:*=* is for micromapping, while highway=* area=yes is for the
> essence of the thing. The essence of a pedestrian plaza is its shape,
> even if the ideal router would calculate a beeline dash through it and a
> less-than-ideal router still needs us to map that shortest path
> manually.


Moving a semi-related question across to a new thread, how is pedestrian
routing through / inside areas such as parks or beaches supposed to work?

Here's 2 examples:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_foot&route=-28.00772%2C153.38340%3B-28.00837%2C153.38337#map=18/-28.00817/153.38459

Instead of simply walking along the established grass path across the
causeway between the two ponds, you magically jump to the nearest path,
then follow that to the closest point to your destination, then jump across
to that spot.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=fossgis_osrm_foot&route=-28.15708%2C153.51028%3B-28.15919%2C153.51315#map=18/-28.15851/153.51212

& same thing - instead of just walking down the beach, you leave it, walk
along the path, then back down onto the beach.

Is there any way of fixing this so that you just walk the straight,
shortest, line to your destination?

Thanks

Graeme
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