[OSM-talk] Routing error Cloudmap.com or wrong tagging?

[Nic Roets]

Hello Michael,

The 'private' tag is used quite often and will be quite tedious if a
user needs to specify what roads he may access as an owner before he
can use the system. So from a practical standpoint, it makes sense to
treat it as a road tagged with 'destination': A valid route can exit
and enter the set of 'destination' roads no more than once of each
and, when both occurs, they must occur in that order.

Doing that, will mean that there are some hypothetical cases where for
example he wants cross a river and he the nearest bridge is on his
property, but the calculated route makes use of the public bridge
instead. With a little bit of common sense the driver will ignore the
computer and the computer will then catch up as soon as he enters his
own property.

I haven't considered all these issues last time I looked at my code
that handles it and it still interpret 'private' as 'no'. Perhaps the
same thing happened to Cloudmade. Or they don't want to take the risk
that one of their clients will do something silly, get a fine or get
arrested and then face all the legalities and / or bad press.

>
> access: no
> bicycle: yes
> created_by: JOSM
> foot: yes
> highway: service
> motorcar: private
> name: Munkebotn
> note: Middelalder stamvei (ridevei)
> old_name: Den Trondheimske postvei
> start_date: 1600
>
> http://osm.org/go/0Rv01LEg?layers=0B00FTTT
>
> Is there a problem with the tagging, or with the routing-software?
>
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