[OSM-talk-ie] Joined-up highways

[Tony Furnell]

Thanks for highlighting Colm, this is something I end up correcting all the
time, at least to ensure the ends of pavement are connected to the next
crossing road.

Personally, I try to avoid mapping pavements separately, unless there's
real value in doing so (e.g. there's a physical barrier between pavement
and road, if it's separated by a grass strip, or the pavement has
non-standard access permissions such as a designated cycle way), as it
tends to complicate routing. I'm more a fan of tagging sidewalk=* (or
sidewalk:left=* or sidewalk:right=*) on the road routes, and ensuring that
any relevant trunk roads with a pavement include a foot=yes access
permission.

I agree also on access=no... while it might make logical sense that you're
saying "nothing except foot=yes can use this", in reality, highway=footway
already sets appropriate access permissions automatically, and avoids an
easy software interpretation of access=no meaning the way should be ignored
by routing.


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Tony Furnell


> Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 23:59:59 +0000
> From: Colm Moore <colmmoore72 at hotmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=53.28628%2C-6.40022%3B53.28630%2C-6.40015
> Can I ask people to make sure that highways are joined up?  Here we have a
> residential road and its sidewalk. However, as they are not connected on
> the map, routing software sends pedestrians off on a 774-metre detour,
> whereas vehicle users are told they are 1 metre apart. This is ableist and
> elitist.
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> Similarly, here:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_car&route=53.28589%2C-6.39948%3B53.28608%2C-6.39991#map=19/53.28568/-6.39969
> vehicles are offered a 132-metre route, while pedestrians are sent on a
> 603-metre detour.
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> Tagging footways as access=no and foot=yes only serves to confuse matters
> further.
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> Thank you
>
> Colm
>
> PS Reminder - these need to be joined up. :)
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