To clarify, both Google Maps and Strava routing can't do this either, I was trying to work out if OSM could do this.
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 12:10 AM Jonathon Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past I've mapped exactly what I've surveyed on the ground in local > parks, however I've recently been using the OSM routing feature rather than > from other services and I've discovered it can't route directly across a > park that is just grass. > > In the following example, I've mapped: > - the short grass track (eastern side) that council are likely > inadvertently making each time they bring vehicles through the gate to mow > the park (the rest of the park boundary has timber bollards), > - trails that lead from the Greater Glider Conservation Area out into the > park, the small bit of the "Trail Circuit" in the park isn't actually a > well defined path it just opens up but it isn't grass and the amount of > trees keep it path like > - other well formed paths that lead out to roads > > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=-27.54259%2C153.22173%3B-27.54227%2C153.21904#map=18/-27.54200/153.22056 > > The OSM Wiki states: > > > Ways (highway=path or highway=footway) leading into a park from a road, > should always be connected to the road for routing purposes. It's debatable > whether they should connect to the park area with a shared node, or cross > over the polygon without connecting. TODO discuss > > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:leisure=park) > > If a park is just a big grass area (with maybe a few obstacles like a > playground) then it feels like the responsibility of the routing engine to > just do this (maybe with an access tag to say it is okay to do so). It > feels wrong for us mappers to map a "grass" path through the park from each > entrance that we feel is a main thoroughfare. > > Am I missing something, have others "fixed" this problem elsewhere? > > Jono >
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