[OSM-talk] Routing across parks

[Dave F.]

Hi

With the addition of routing to the man page there's been a few cases of 
adding ways in order to get routing to work. This is not the fault of 
the people editing, but the routing software.

For example let's use parks. Both of the foot routers won't cross the 
park unless there's a specific path way. However, as users can wander 
about anywhere they like there are no marked paths, not even worn 
ground. (I would post an example but OSM has just gone down)

I thought the assumption was parks & pedestrian areas etc were able to 
be crossed as long as there were ways joined to the perimeter to enter/exit.

Why can't routing software process the perimeter checking each node to 
see if there's a joined way to exit?

As parks have many entrances adding ways connecting up each of them 
would be over the top.

Separate Q:
On Richard F. cycle.travel routing. How do reset & start again?

Cheers
Dave F.

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