[Talk-us] Tags used for routing

[Tod Fitch]

On Jul 18, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> 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?

I am a little surprised that Scout US does not use highway=path for pedestrian routing.

Once more router providers document what they use it might be nice to consolidate the information into a single page/table. But getting anything documented is a wonderful step.