[Talk-us] highway=service + landuse=residential

[Paul Johnson]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Rihards <richlv at nakts.net> wrote:

> On 2016.06.15. 09:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us
>> <mailto:clifford at snowandsnow.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     Interesting - mapping curb to curb. I doubt it could be used for
>>     routing but it sure renders [1] nice.
>>
>> Not that I've done this much (usually on freeform parking lots with no
>> established lines, whoever gets there first sets the order of the day),
>> though shouldn't a routing engine be capable of dealing with something
>> like highway=service area=yes?
>>
>
> last i heard, most (all ?) do not. if the area is connected to an incoming
> serviceway, routing will guide you along the border of the area... which in
> most cases would even be enough.
>
> lately i have seen (and use myself) an approach where the area is mapped,
> and serviceways are also mapped through it for the main directions of
> travel. these "guidance" ways are also connected to the area at all the
> places where they cross.
>
> it's somewhat similar to riverbank area & waterway=river through it :)


Save for the walltracing behavior, that's kind of what I expected.  Though
I guess I was expecting a somewhat more nautical logic towards navigating
an open space.
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