[Talk-us] Tags used for routing

Martijn van Exel martijnv at telenav.com
Fri Jul 18 20:57:12 UTC 2014


Hi all,

I am not sure if this list is monitored by the maintainers of routing
engines that use OSM? I wanted to draw attention to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing. This page
seemed to have very little bearing on what is actually used. It came
up recently on either IRC or another mailing list, and Richard
Fairhurst added the warning that is now heading section 1.2 of the
page.

I just edited this page some more to add the 1.1 section on 'actual
usage'. For now it contains a section on Telenav with a link to a
child page I just created with some information on tag usage for the
Scout apps. My hope is that this page, or some template we can agree
on, will be used by other routing engine owners to supply a similar
set of information. I realize that many engines allow the end user to
tweak how routing results are calculated, but there should be some
minimal set of information on tag usage based on defaults?

The OSM tags for routing page could use much more cleanup, I think.
I'd rather have it only reflect actual usage by well established
routing engines only. Thoughts?
--
Martijn van Exel
OSM data specialist
Telenav
http://www.osm.org/user/mvexel
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Mvexel
http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?mvexel



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