[Talk-us] Tags used for routing

[Martijn van Exel]

Talk-US was just CCed because the folks here will be more likely to be
familiar with Scout; the message was to routing@ primarily.

I don't want a discussion on tagging because I don't want this to be
about tagging, but about creating a consistent body of information on
how tags are used by important OSM data consumers.

Thanks for pointing out the access restrictions page. I hadn't seen
that one for some time. The link to it is buried in non-information in
the parent page. To my mind, this page should be a sub page of map
features, not of the tags used for routing page, because access
restrictions have broader use than just routing. I will propose to
move on the discussion page there.

Martijn


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> Martijn
>
> Wouldn't it be better to have this discussion on dev or tagging or at
> least some where with a slightly larger audience than talk-us? In any
> case the -really- important page is
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions
> which is essentially the only documentation we have on default/implicit
> access on ways.
>
> Simon
>
> Am 18.07.2014 22:57, schrieb Martijn van Exel:
>> 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
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