On 01/01/2010 22:01, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > brenda cameron wrote: >> The reason involves openmtbmap and perhaps other bicycle oriented maps. It >> currently blocks all trunk roads to autorouting, while allowing primary >> roads. The author has indicated that he will include trunk roads if >> "tagged bicycle=yes and motorroad=yes is not present. I will not do this >> for highway=motorway." > > If cycling is usually allowed on trunk roads in .uk then you should make > an effort to persuade the author to reflect that in his code. (It seems > he's from Germany, where we normally use highway=trunk for a type of > road that is closed to bicycles.) If, however, that would lead to you > having to add "bicycle=no" to 95% of trunk roads then maybe it is better > proceed as you have planned.
Cycling is allowed on just about all trunk roads in the UK. There are a few trunk (or primary) roads where cycling is banned, but they are exceptions (and signposted as such), so easier to just tag those as bicycle=no. There is this page which specifies the default access restrictions for different highway types in various countries: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Access-Restrictions Though its currently lacking anything for the UK. It would be worth adding a table, then anyone making routing software can just check that page. Craig _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
