[Tagging] Meaning of access=yes on highway=footway?

[Andy Townsend]

On 25/04/2022 09:52, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> If we're talking about the job of a router, it's to find the "best" 
> route, however "best" is defined. Users don't want routers to 
> calculate a more harrowing, legalistic route when there's a better 
> alternative. Even a half-decent routing profile that generally 
> optimizes for travel time will still avoid weaving across multiple 
> lanes, divebombing off and back on a freeway, or cutting through a 
> residential neighborhood.
>
>
Regardless of the discussion about edge cases, this is surely the main 
point.  If I'm driving a car and it suggests that I turn left on on 
something "used mainly or exclusively by pedestrians" (based on 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dfootway ) I'd suggest 
that it had got things very wrong.  This isn't just OsmAnd - 
historically I've had a non-OSM-based Garmin car sat-nav suggest that I 
use https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/75316181 .  It's legal, but very 
unsuitable (and signed as such).

Best Regards,

Andy