[Talk-us] Ferries

[Greg Troxel]

Martijn van Exel <martijnv at telenav.com> writes:

> It's the other way around, really. We're adjusting our routing logic
> to adapt to OSM. Referring to the wiki, a service road is 'Generally
> for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, campsite,
> industrial estate, business park, etc.' - so by that definition, a
> service road would typically only occur at the beginning or the end of
> the route, and that's what we tell our routing engine to do. If it
> were to turn out that this definition of what a service road is, is in
> fact not how it is generally used in mapping, then we'd need to
> revisit the wiki (and our routing rules) - but from what I have seen
> in my pretty extensive mapping experience in the U.S., the definition
> generally holds. So it makes sense to me to suggest a different
> tagging for these ferry access routes, not only (and not even
> primarily) to satisfy our or any third party logic using the data, but
> to bring more consistency to OSM in general.

That's fair enough.  I got the wrong impression earlier (perhaps my
misreading) that this was about a particular routing engine rather than
the documented semantics.

So perhaps highway=ferry_link, or perhaps the roads should just be
highway=unclassified.


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