[Talk-us] routing tags used by actual routing applications

[Paul Johnson]

I would expect tracks to be in play except when explicitly excluding
unpaved roads, barring surface tags to the contrary, otherwise as a last
resort.  Much of the US doesn't pave county roads, yet they're often packed
and graded to the point someone with a low slung sedan can safely do 45 on
them.
On Jul 1, 2014 3:37 PM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> > Il giorno 01/lug/2014, alle ore 23:15, Jason Remillard <
> remillard.jason at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > For example, scout does
> > not route over highway=tracks, unless you are in pedestrian mode. It
> > seems like a reasonable decision, perhaps all of the routers do this,
>
>
> no, some routers do use tracks for car routing (I'd expect a router to use
> tracks for cars, but only as a last resort when there are no alternatives)
>
> In your original post you mentioned path and cycleway, those should indeed
> not route cars
>
>
> > but the wiki documentation says nothing of the sort, and it surprised
> > me.
>
>
> I'd file a bug at scout and see what they respond, you should definitely
> not adapt osm data based on one router
>
> cheers,
> Martin
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