[talk-ph] roro/ferry routes (was: Re: Fwd: [OSM-talk] keepright! goes global)

[maning sambale]

ferry/roro routes c/o jobo.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/maning/traces/451143

Please edit.

On 7/22/09, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think may ror-ro routes ako from jobo.  Will look later
>
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Marloue Pidor
>> <murlwe at mail2engineer.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ohh, but I added a flight route from Davao to Manila. Check the data,
>>> its
>>> there but I don't know why it did not appear. So, Technically Davao is
>>> connected to Manila by plane. I will try to add ferry route to Manila.
>>> Its a
>>> very long route.
>>>
>>>
>>> murlwe
>>
>> Hi murlwe,
>>
>> Yes, I noticed your Davao-Manila flight route[1]. However there are two
>> problems: 1) this flight path is not connected to any other navigable way
>> (so in mathematical / graph theory terms, Davao is not connected to
>> Manila),
>> and 2) even if it were connected, the tag route=flight is not used by any
>> tool that I know of[2] and I assume that this is not recognized by keep
>> right.
>>
>> I think the simplest way to connect Davao to Manila is to ensure that
>> there
>> is an unbroken set of ways from Davao to Surigao City, then a ferry route
>> to
>> Liloan, Southern Leyte, then a land route to Tacloban then to Sta. Rita,
>> Samar (via San Juanico Bridge), to Allen, Northern Samar, then a ferry to
>> Matnog, Sorsogon. I'm assuming that there already exists in OSM a
>> connected
>> land route from Manila to Sorsogon. With this option, I don't think a
>> ferry
>> route from Davao Port to Manila Port would be needed to solve this
>> problem.
>>
>> Eugene / seav
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/36961252
>>
>> [2] Sky-based map data is a bit controversial and some OSMers seem to
>> think
>> that they shouldn't be entered into the main OSM database while others
>> argue
>> that they are still valid map data. See the following URLs for a sampling
>> of
>> the discussion:
>>
>> * http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=18666
>> * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Airspace
>> * http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2006-November/008989.html
>>
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