Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-15 Thread stevea
Paul Norman writes: The most important change is probably setting appropriate surface information. I don't know the exact secret sauce magic of cycle.travel, but surface information is very important for selecting reasonable routes on a bike - or indeed, any non-foot method of transportation.

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SteveA wrote: Richard (Fairhurst), if cycle.travel/map's router logic is not paying attention to surface= tags, perhaps it should, as doing so truly can improve selected routes It very much does - it'll look at surface=, and failing that tracktype= or smoothness=, as one of the principal

Re: [Talk-us] cycle.travel US bike routing, and unreviewed rural TIGER

2015-06-15 Thread Russ Nelson
Minh Nguyen writes: You aren't alone. I stopped bothering with tiger:reviewed tags back in the Potlatch 1 days. It just isn't a well-designed tag: - not very discoverable to mappers who weren't around in 2008 Makes ways a sickly yellow if you edit using JOSM. - doesn't say whether