hi, The proposed OSM default tags (e.g. for per-country speed restrictions based on highway type) were discussed on this forum before. These defaults also allow access restrictions to be set (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access_restrictions). This could be useful to indicate that "trunk" roads in about half of the countries are not accessible to cyclists and pedestrians (e.g. France, Germany), and in the other half they are (UK, USA, ...). But I wonder: *does osmand look at these default tags?* Either during map conversion or internally...
The background of my question is this: When I'm cycling in France and using a "shortest routes" profile, osmand sometimes wants to send me over a trunk road if this saves a lot of kilometers. Like in most of western Europe, the things that are tagged as trunk roads here are very much like motorways. Cycling on them is strictly prohibited and very dangerous. Even a "shortest routes" navigation profile should not allow this (maybe an "outlaw" profile would do). In Germany or the Netherlands trunk roads are systematically tagged with "motorroad" or "access:bicycle=no". In France this is not the case. When I started adding such tags in strategic places, I've been told it was redundant, because navigation apps should take the national rules or the proposed Defaults into account. It sounds indeed like a neat solution to me. Of course I adapted my routing profile already: I replaced the useless "allow motorways" switch by an "allow trunk roads", which I might flip on in Tasmania or so. Best regards, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OsmAnd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/osmand/b4bed927-0aa5-4514-824c-b1b5b3a1fa5bo%40googlegroups.com.
