[OSM-talk] highway="corridor" tag

[Andy Townsend]

On 05/05/2018 17:07, Richard Marsden wrote:
> My code is being surprised by a number of corridors that are tagged
> highway="corridor".
>
> The two examples I have in-front of me are both in Dublin, Ireland; at
> Stephen's Green Mall and St James Hospital.
>
> I say surprised because the page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features does not list this
> corridor tagging, and my code assumes unknown highway tags are
> vehicle-routable (and filters out footpaths, stairs, etc).
>

That seems ... courageous*.  There are few enough values for "highway" 
at taginfo (see https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/highway#values ) 
to be able to choose only the ones that you want.

Realistically, if you're blacklisting rather than whitelisting you'll 
potentially think that every typo (like 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=apath ) is vehicle 
routable.  You probably don't want to do that.

Best Regards,

Andy


* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik8JT2S-kBE