[OSM-talk] Connecting ferry routes to roads?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
> I fixed up the Isle of Man Steam Packet ferry route so that it goes
> all the way into Douglas harbour in the Isle of Man again. While I was
> at it, I connected it up with the road network so that routing
> programmes could route traffic through it as well. Is this common
> practice, and is there a standard way of linking them in? I've just
> linked the route to a service road which is connected to the rest of
> the road network.

The imported AND data had this also, we mapped it to highway=virtual,
for lack of a better tag at the time...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/