[OSM-talk] Which type of highways are used by routing software?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Wed Nov 2 09:46:22 UTC 2016


On 02-Nov-16 08:16 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> MichaƂ Brzozowski wrote:
>> The rules for routing appear to be mostly global for popular
>> routers. There is very little magical sauce, if any.
> I wouldn't say that. Obviously the demo instances for OSRM and GraphHopper
> use their own vanilla profiles, but other routers very often have customised
> profiles/rules. My own http://cycle.travel/map has a completely different,
> much more complex profile than the standard OSRM bicycle profile, for
> example.
>
> John Whelan wrote:
>> Obviously if I select bicycle it won't use motorway or
>> footway but in general which highway types are used?
> cycle.travel _does_ actually route over motorways and footways if
> bicycle=yes tags are set. Many motorways in the US permit bikes (on the hard
> shoulder); it's not uncommon to see a shared-use path in the UK tagged as
> highway=footway, bicycle=yes; and a short distance pushing on a
> highway=footway can often provide a good route. For highway=track, I treat
> it differently for different countries: for example, in the UK I don't route
> over highway=track unless access tags suggest it's permitted. cycle.travel
> doesn't currently cover Africa and I have no plans to do so, but if it did I
> would probably route over highway=track there.

And I'd recommend routing bicycles over highway=track in Asia too, very common due to the behaviour of traffic!




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