[Talk-us] Ferries

[Paul Johnson]

I think highway=unclassified works, particularly if it's the fire lane used
for exiting the ferry that's always kept free of the ferry queue; not sure
how I'd tag the queue lot.


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:

>
> 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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