[Talk-us] Tags used for routing

[Martijn van Exel]

The post did not go through on routing@ yet, probably because it's my
first and it is under moderation for that reason.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Martijn van Exel
<martijn at openstreetmap.us> wrote:
> 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
>>> OSM data specialist
>>> Telenav
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