[OSM-talk] Crazy routing in OpenRouteService

[Pascal Neis]

Hi Steve,

Steve Hill schrieb:
> A recent purchase of an Android phone has lead me to play with AndNav2 and 
> OpenRouteService.  However, in some cases I get some unexpectedly crazy 
> routes.
> 
> OpenRouteService doesn't seem to understand the highway=road tag.  So 
> presumably if your destination is on a highway=road, it should be 
> projected onto another nearest road.  However, plotting a route from 
> Swansea to -4.119322,53.145316 (North Wales) ends up routing via Calais, 
> Rotterdam, way out into the North Sea and then directly to the 
> destination.  Moving the destination slightly closer to another road 
> causes sanity to be resumed.
> 

please, could you try it again?
For me it works, http://bit.ly/HDgbO

It seems, that it was a OSM data problem, thx!

the highway=road tag is a a temporary tag, or?
"A road of unknown classification. This is intended as a temporary
tag to mark a road until it has been properly surveyed. Once it has
been surveyed, the classification should be updated to the
appropriate value." [1]


pascal

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features