[OSM-talk] Routing across parks

[moltonel 3x Combo]

On 10/03/2015, Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
> On 3/10/2015 12:56 PM, Volker Schmidt wrote:
>> If I understand correctly that you want routing to cross a park as long
>> as the way in and the way out are connected to the perimeter of the
>> park. This is only correct in parks where you are free to walk anywhere.
>> Most parks in continental Europe do not work this way. Typically, but
>> not always, you have to stay on the paths.
>>
>> To solve this, one needs possibly a new (?) tag for parks like
>> stay_on_path=yes|no
>
> I agree - there needs to be areas of general walk permission established
> before a router can include that area.

Another common usecase is surface car parks. You've got lots of
pedestrian paths that lead to it, but nothing explicit inside it, and
even following the service=parking_aisle ways would be too
restrictive.