[Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread SomeoneElse
Hi, User Gavaasuren has been adding a series of imaginary footpaths over the last few weeks, each with the changeset comment zwischen Fußgängerzonen und Straßen Fußweg erstellt. What they seem to be doing is joining pedestrian islands to random nearby roads in order to resolve routing

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread Chris Hill
I have already notified tye data working group. The user was contacted, his imaginary work was not reverted and he was not blocked, he continues to add complete junk from his armchair. He needs to be stopped. On 18 August 2014 10:59:22 GMT+01:00, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread David Woolley
On 18/08/14 10:59, SomeoneElse wrote: Whilst the existance of a highway=pedestrian area that isn't connected is an indication of something, it's usually just an indication of that mapping in a particular area is not complete. Considering the longer term problems: 1) There needs to be better

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread Stuart Reynolds
On 18/08/14 11:41, David Woolley wrote: Considering the longer term problems: 1) There needs to be better guidance to routing software developers on how to route when there are parallel features accessible on foot; Agreed. The things that give our routing engine problems are: - dual

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread SK53
Hi David, Most of these problems are issues for a router for interpreting OSM data, rather than specific problems for the data. There are plenty of examples of people building routers for people with restricted mobility using OSM data (for instance wheelchair users, blind people etc). Most of us

Re: [Talk-GB] Imaginery footpaths added by user Gavaasuren

2014-08-18 Thread David Woolley
On 18/08/14 12:15, SK53 wrote: There are plenty of examples of people building routers for people with restricted mobility using OSM data (for instance wheelchair users, blind people etc). Most of us will map steps on footways simply because even one step acts as a barrier to wheelchair users or