[OSM-talk] Sat nav driver's car hit by train

[Lester Caine]

Gregory/LastGrape wrote:
>> Robert Hart wrote:
>>   
>>>> If the navigation software does not handle obstructions then the 
>>>> suppliers
>>>> SHOULD be liable in some way!
>>>>       
>>> So when it becomes possible to put OSM on a SatNav, you'd like us all
>>> to get sued every time this happens?
>>>     
>> Certainly if roads are flagged as public and passable, then they should be. If 
>> there are gated crossings they should be shown, or the road should be broken 
>> at that point so that any routing software will ignore it. Simply putting in 
>> roads without taking a little care should be avoided.
>>   
> The road was a road, and although it has a gate, it is still public and 
> passable. Someone might of been wanting navigation to the farms that 
> this road is intended to serve. The road could be marked that it has a 
> level crossing, but it should not be broken as such.
> This does raise a question for OSM I think...
> Should there be some sort of tag that could be read by route planning 
> programs. Either a 'do not make route through here', or 'only use this 
> road for a route that ends within x miles of this point' type thing, 
> obviously needs to be thought out better.
> Another tag could be "warning=", for notes that a program can display 
> quite prominently (e.g. audio read out, or hazard sign with mouse over 
> showing details).
That is probably what I was thinking.

> This would be good for other news stories I've heard, such as the first 
> road sign saying do not follow SatNav (was on a narrow country lane that 
> lorries got stuck down).
I did have fun a little while back using M$ Autoroute. This insists on showing 
  anything less than an A road in white, and I was following a track down in 
Cornwall which LOOKED like a nice B road route - until I hit the section where 
the wing mirrors were brushing a high bank on each side. Then is when you wish 
the satnav was two directional and showed the other cars around you - along 
with the passing places ;)

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