[OSM-talk] Virtual highway?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

The AND data does have ferry routes and yes, they go a long way sometimes.

Highway=virtual are dummy tags to indicate that you can get from
A-to-B for routing purposes but there's no real feature there. It's
used for example to link railways stations to the road network. They
don't need to be rendered as such but from a programatic aspect
they're very handy.

As for what it might mean in your specific case I don't know. AFAIK
there's no portal there or anything like that...

Have a nice day,

On Feb 6, 2008 11:32 AM, Rob Reid <rob at robreid.co.nz> wrote:
> I just spotted a way from the recent AND India import that I'm not quite
> sure what to do with, its only 4 nodes long but covers over 1400 km :
> I suspect it could be a ferry route as another one goes from the same
> point of origin and it connects two islands but its tagged as
> highway=virtual and  follows a direct line passing over land as well so
> could be an air route as well I guess?
> Details are here : http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/22826679/full
>
> cheers
>
> rcr
>
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