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

[Peter Elderson]

The second example is a rather wide sand path. If you want it to route, just map it highway=path, surface=sand, width= ...

Mvg Peter Elderson

> Op 2 nov. 2021 om 00:13 heeft Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 
>> 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:
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> 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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